Russians Force British Patrol At Gun Point To Free Arrested Soldiers
Six Russian soldiers entered the Vienna police headquarters and forced at pistol point a British miltary patrol and Austrian police to release two drunken Russian soldiers arrested last night in the British sector of Vienna, according to the M'nistry of the Interior. A British spokesman in Berlin said the Russians held up five railway wagons of German mail for the western zones at Marienborn, on the Anglo-Soviet zonal border.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 8 June 1948, Page 5
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