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SlmJ)lOn Gel'mans and to tile world tIlat tile clear of Nazi remnants, and from ied POW' As,oelaied Pren War Analyst war in Germany is over and only nortll to south to clean up tile 01 Russl·ans -- AllI S of ~h~s~~~~~;t:~~'~~~~1sc~~~~: ~azjm:at~dj~~y d:~t ~~~~il~:~~:: ~:S~a~~i a~;!~Onal redoubt in J where soutll of Red army pene- lessly. At some moment General Eisen- trated Berlin probably will have ln a military sense tile junction hower wiu find it n~essary to split German Offer to leave more political than mllitary signi- between Russian and allied forces his vast Corces into two great army Soviet Tanks Reach Prisoners in Overrun ficance. splitting Germany apart from east groups, tile one north bound and Elbe River 20 Miles It would afford United Nations to west was an acoemplished fact the otller southbound through Ger­ Areas Accepted by u.s. leadership opportunity to pro- from tile moment American troops many. So will the Russians, and From Americans claim the end of organized resis- crossed the Elbe and Red army aside from tile clOSing scenes of the WASHINGTON (AP)-The tance in Germany, virtually out- forces surged out of tIleir long sta- siege of Berlin, it is southward LONDON, Tue day (AP)- . allies la t night sternly warned flanking die-hard last standel'S tic Oder-Neisse lines. where the American Third and With the guns of Nazi SS fanat­ the Nazis against mistreatment everywhere. That would strip With physical contact estab- Seventh armies lll:e sweeping ics at their backs erman army of prisoners, and the niled every German taken in arms tIlere- lished, however and wherever, be- toward Municll and Berchtesgaden troop counterattacked vainly i n after of the protection guaranteed tween the Russians and allies in that prime military interest arises. Berlin today, but the Rus ians tat took Germany up on an him as a prisoner of war under tile Grmany, the direction of the bitter The American front reaches swarmed o\' r one-third of the offer' to leave American prison­ Genevl\ conventions. It could go far fighting still to be done will from tile upper Danube crossings er -of-war in camps as allied to stimulate civilian resistance in change. It has run from east to to the Third army spanning of the city and German reports indi­ forces overrun areas where they Germany to the senseless Nazi at- west and west to east in the maIn Naab west, of threatened Pilsen. cated savage fighting was swirl­ are held. tempt to enIorce virtual suicide as combat theater up to now. The And It does far more than threaten ing through nearly one-half of Prime Minister Churchill and a nation ratller than surrender. mopping-up campaign after tilt! to overrun the boasted redoubt be­ the wrecl<ed German capital. Premier S t a lin joined with That of itself might prompt a tor- meeting will run (rom south to fore Nazi higher-up refugees can Southwe t of the burning President 'rruman in the warn­ mal three-power de<:laration to all north to sweep all coastal Germany reach it. city, R"d army lanks surged to ing tilat any per on guilty or the Elbe l'iver within 20 miles maltreating any aUi d prisoner of Amel'ican fol'cCS awaiting a •nus MAP OF BERLIN and the area surroundlnlf shows In detail the roads. waterwayS and suburban of war, internee or deported Hitler Asserts Berlin British Bomb Troop link-up, and a three-power an­ iowns throurh which allied torces will move on Ule Nazi caplial. Latest reports show the Russians filfhilnr citizen will be "ruthlessly pur­ nouncement tIlat tile western and .. half of the almost surrounded city. By one account the escape rap has been narrowed to five mJles British Enter sued and brought to punishment." eastern allies had joined was ex­ .. the nelrhborhood of Spandau, northwest of Her lin. It Is 8Outhwes' of 'he city, on the Elbe river, that The sli(()y worded statement pected momentarily. !he Juncture between RUllSian and allied forces Is expected to be announced. Battle at Climax Ship off Dutch Coast was · an obvious outgrowth of Berlin was almost encirCled, mounting indignation over horri­ Outskirts and a supplement to the Soviet ble conditions found in a number Reports to Mussolini; Nazi Air Bases communique said early today that of German prison camps as Amer­ 'Werewolf' Radio Says Near Danish Border two Russian armies, attacking ican arms drive the Nazis hehind Fuehrer Not in Capital aftcr a massive artillery barrage, them. Of Ferrara Also Hit by RAF had hurled the Germans back into New Third Army . Drive The Truman-Churchill-Stalin tile inner built-up area of Berlin. LONDON (AP)-Adolf Hitler, warning was addressed to any LONDON (AP)-British planes Adolf Hitler, who at the gates of German who has charge of pris­ reported by Nazi sources to be stm ROME (AP) - British Eighth yesterday pelted bomb~ and rock­ in blazing Berlin, cried out yester­ Moscow had said that tile Russian oners anywhere. It was made army forces broke into the out­ ets into troop laden enemy ships day in an 11th hour message to his sneaking out (rom the Frisian is­ army was "annihilated," was re­ Hitle( s Alpine Fori At a Glance- I Fighting Deadlocked carefully explicit that there can skirts or Ferrara last night against ported leading the defense of his be no reliance on the excuse of one-time Axis partner, Benito stubborn German rearguarn resis­ lands off the Dutch coast, and set MU5Solini, that the "struggle for tance, front dispatches declared, fire to at least two. own blazing capital against the Approached by Patton orders from higher authority, or legions of Premier Stalin, who an­ On Southern Okinawa an allbis that the acts were car­ our very existence has reached its while allied headquarters an­ . Second tactical airforee Ty­ climax." nounced that units of both the phoons and Spitfires also attacked nounced that only a 16-mile gap Todoy's ried out by subordinates without remained to be closed to encircle As the German fuehrer sent his Russians, First Army actual authorization. Eighth and the American Fifth German air bases near the Danish Pacific Fleet Planes despairing report to the deposed the city. The Germans admitted it Every avaJlable means of com­ army had advanced to undisclosed border, destroying 50 par ked Make Radio Contact; Destroy Jap Aircraft duce in Milan, the Nazi "Were­ points on the soutllern banks of planes and shooting down two, had been narrowed to 10 miles. munication, including broadcasts wolf" radio hinted at a grim and 'while other groups caught a fleet Thc Luxembourg radio broad­ Juncture Seen Today Iowan from WashIngton, London and the Po river. On Miyaka Island fratricidal denouncement inside the Associated Press Correspondent of German aircraft fueled and cast an unconlirmed report that Moscow, was being lltilized to PARIS, Tuesday (AP)-A pow­ • • • GUAIVl, Tuesday (AP)-Amerl­ embattled capital, asserting that George Palmer reported from the loaded for a take-oH from the the city had been completely en­ Germans report hal! of Berlin convey the message to all com­ Germans were now fighHng Ger­ front that Brltl$h troops, despite Eggebek alrtield, exploding 11 of circled. erful new United States Third scene of fighting; R,ussians hold can infantryman still were dead­ mandants, guards, Gestapo agents mans in the smoke-lilled streets. extensive enemy demolition work, them on tile ground and damaging The defenders of the sprawling It din- army offensive swept 53 miles one-third of ciiy, locked In the fiery battle tor and other persons regardless of across the northern approaches to southern Okinawa yesterday. Ad': Earlier yesterday Nazi propagan­ were closirtg in on Ferrara, 30 13 otllers. center of German "kullur" were 19 ha& service or rank, who might have miles north and slightly east of HltIer's Alpine fortress yesterday Announcement of Russi-an-al­ miral .Chester W. Nimitz' com­ dists broadcast tha~ Hitler, with Still other units raked German [[gllting a losing battle. Waves of Delta charge of allied nationals. Allied Gauleiter Paul Joseph Goebbels recently-captured Bologna. ~s RUllsian forces in radio contact lied iuncture expected mo­ munique today said no informa­ troops retreating north from Soviet steel were s wee pin g planes were dropping uncounted at his sIde, was inside Berlin "di­ North and northwest of Bologna, with the Americans on the United mentarily. tion was available on progress in copies of the warning over the Emden, and b?mbed and kn?cked through thc smouldering streets at recting from the front line." Last British and American forces out 22 locomotives and 100 railway an almost unbelievable rate.

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