Salt Lake Telegram | 1952-06-04 | Page 1 | East Germany Guard Wound Yank M. P.

I I I East Germany Guard Wounds Yank I M. M A. A P. P a I BERLIN June 4 tf An Ai An American Amer Amer- American ican can military policeman was shot and wounded by an East German police border guard on the outskirts outskirts outskirts out out- skirts of Berlin Wednesday Maj l Gen Lemuel Matthewson U. U S S. S commander in Berlin immediately immediately immediately im im- im- im mediately denounced the shooting shooting shooting shoot shoot- ing as a barbaric and undisciplined undisciplined undisciplined violence by police under Soviet control He lIe demanded the Russians severely punish the offender A bullet pierced the military police jeep and wounded the driver in the leg leg- The engine also was damaged The shooting occurred without without without with out warning or provocation while the Army vehicle was on routine official patrol on Mach Mach- Strasse near the U. U S. S sec sec- tor Soviet zone boundary Gen Mathewson l said Earlier Wednesday the Russians Russians Russians Rus Rus- had mysteriously relaxed half of their way two-way blockade of Allied military patrols on Berlins Berlin's Berlins Berlin's Berlins Berlin's Ber Ber- lins lin's lifeline auto bahn allowing one eastbound American military police jeep to travel the mile I route from West Germany to Berlin but turning back both American and British jeeps when they tried to make the trip westward westward west west- ward from Berlin This first break In the day 10 blockade was just 24 hours after the British had laid bloodless siege to the Communists' Communists radio Berlin building in the British sector i