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Berlin Reds mass today; police alerted

BERLIN, Sept. 11 (S&S) — Western Berlin police were alerted today as fears increased that tomorrow's Communist mass meeting in the Soviet Sector might lead to clashes with anti-Communists along the sector borders.

Allied officials disclosed that the Western police had been placed on a general alert to forestall any Communist attempt to invade the Western sectors in retaliation for Thursday's anti-Soviet demonstration at Brandenburg Gate, in which one anti-Communist was killed and 22 wounded.

Aims Changed

The officials said they had no reports that the Communists were planning to create an incident but they added, "Obviously, we are taking all precautions."

The Soviet Sector rally was originally planned as a commemoration for victims of fascism but after Thursday's gigantic anti-Communist demonstration in front of the Reichstag the Communist sponsors of tomorrow's demonstration converted it into a protest against "the Fascist rabble and their foreign masters."

The Tagliche Rundschau, official newspaper of the Soviet military administration, today urged Berliners to turn out tomorrow to take part in "the determined fight against the new Fascist reaction."

Communist leaders similarly appealed to Berliners to rally "against the splitters of Berlin" at tomorrow's meeting in the Lustgarten.

May Attempt March

The Lustgarten, scene of Communist May Day demonstrations, is less than a mile from the British Sector border and down the block from the Reichstag, where 250,000 anti-Communists met Thursday.

Western sector German police fear the Communists, after holding their Lustgarten meeting, might try to march through Brandenburg Gate to the British Sector and provoke clashes with anti-Communists.

An Allied Kommandatura regulation prohibits parades from one sector to another unless the commandants of both sectors have given permission in advance. The Communists have not asked for this permission.

The British today denied a Soviet-sponsored press report that on Thursday demonstrators fired on Soviet soldiers and Eastern Sector police. A British spokesman said a Soviet report that arms had been hidden in the Reichstag before Thursday's rally was "a lie."