MAY DAY CLASH IN GERMANY
West Sector Police Disperse Crowd
BERLIN, May 1 (Recd. 1.10 am).— West sector German police, using truncheons, dispersed demonstrators who tried to march through the American sector of Berlin to a May Day demonstration organised by the So-viet-sponsored German trade union movement in the Soviet sector. A clash occurred at Kreuzberg, when a crowd refused to disperse. Several persons were injured and some arrested. The American military Government gave only members of anti-Communist independent trade unions permission to march through the American sector. All British troops were confined to, barracks in Berlin and nearly 10,000 • western sector policemen were on duty to prevent clashes between proCommunist and anti-Communist May Day demonstrators, says Reuter’s Berlin correspondent. Special precautions were taken in the Moabit and Wedding districts, traditional Communist areas in lhe British and French sectors, where supporters of Communistsponsored German trade unions as-, sembled to march to a mass meeting | in the Soviet sector. British, French,, and American military police stood by but were told not to intervene unless personnel or property were threatened or the German police asked for assistance.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 2 May 1949, Page 5
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