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LIGHTING-OP TIME TIDE TABL^FOR MARCH Date High Water Low Water Sun- Sun- 630 pjn. A.M. P.M. AM. P.M. rise get 7 2.14 2.36 8.36 854 6.40 650 Wxp iRmjal <8a2rtfr attd (ftolmrist latlts VOL. 52—NO. 57 HAMILTON, BERMLJDA,WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1945 3D PER COPY-=-40/- PER ANNUM ChurchiU Visits West Front And HOUSE TO GET "OLIVE i COLONY RUNNING ITS OWN COLOGNE FALLS TO YANKS BRANCH" FROM COUNCIL ! SHOW REMARKABLE THING Talks With Allied Commanders I Asked To Share In Joint Lord Burghley Speaker At LONDON, March 6 (Reuter).—A statement from 10 Downing Street this Committee On Private Use L.C.C.A. Annual Meeting AS PATTON SMASHES NEAR afternoon disclosed that Prime Minister Churchill, accompanied by the chief of the Imperial General Staff, Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, and General Sir Hastings Ismay, had visited the Western Front. POUCY ACCEPTABLE TO BOTH REVIEW OF ANNUAL WORK IS Premier Churchill discussed with General Eisenhower, Field Marshal Montgomery and other Allied commanders a wide field of military matters, HOUSES WILL BE SOUGHT COVERED IN MANY REPORTS RHINE IN 25 MILE DRIVE the announcement said. The Prime Minister also visited British and Canadian troops of the Designated as an "olive branch" His Excellency the Governor Lord First Canadian Army and units of the Ninth United States Army who are by the Hon. Dr. R. C. Hollis Hallett, Burghley, told the annual meeting of By MELVIN APPEL taking part in the advance to the Rhine. A considerable part of the tour the Legislative Council yesterday the Lady Cubitt Compassionate As- ZHUKOV PREPARING PUSH was on German territory. afternoon decided unanimously to sociation in Trinfty Hail yesterday LONDON, Mar. 6 (Reuter).—Cologne, third city of the Reich, Prime Minister Churchill has now returned to London, the official invite the House of Assembly to ap- afternoon what a remarkable thing statement added. He has since been granted an audience by the King. point a joint committee with the it was that Bermudians had run today fell to General Courtney Hodges's men,*1ns further south Gen ACROSS LOWER ODER Council to arrive at a policy with | their "own show" so successfully for eral George Patton slashed through to within 20 miles of the Rhine By CHARLES LYNCH By JON KIMCHE regard to private use "which may be so many years because the Colony after a spectacular advance of 25 miles. WITH THE FIRST CANADIAN LONDON, March 6 (Reuter).— acceptable to both Branches of the did not have a very large population. River's Estuary Reached At Legislature." The capture ol Cologne — hung with white flags as a surrender token ARMY, March 4 (delayed) (Reuter). Dramatic developments are likely Lord Burghley had led up to this —Prime Minister Winston Churchill, to follow Prime Minister Winston The President subsequently nam remark by stressing that the and still holding about 150,000 civilians — was officially announced from Kammin Near Peenemunde in a speech made on German soil Churchill's unheralded visit to the ed the Attorney General, the Hon strength of countries in the British American 1st. Army Headquarters after tanks and infantry of General today, said that the AUies would Western Front to see General Eisen- J. T. GUbert, the Hon. W. E. S. ZuiH Empire rested in the number of Hodges's Command had fought their way through the centre of the 75 MILE STRETCH OF BALTIC soon be across the Rhine. "Any- hower and Field Marshal Montgom- and the Son. Sir Stanley Spurling to people who were prepared to do vol city to come out upon the Rhine in the area of the cathedral. one can see that one good strong ery. be the Council's part of the proposed untary work for their fellow men committee, the first two named lieutenant Generals Edwin von Rothkirch and Yrach, Commanders of COAST HELD TO THE EAST heave all together will end the war The Prime Minister must have He keynoted this by speaking of the to Europe," he asserted. had important reasons to travel members having to date been op splendid support which the L.C.CA. the 5th and 3rd German Army Groups, were captured by General Patton's posed to private use. -forces when they overran tne German Headquarters in their swift advance, His speech was made to officers I again so soon after his return ftom and other organisations in the By MICHAEL DAVIDSON and men of the 51st Highland Dlvi- Yalta. which was made known tonight after a partial blackout on operations of 16 Two other opponents to private drew from voluntary LONDON, March 6 (Reuter). — sion, gathered in a wide square L/" presence among his party of use — the Hon. 1". Goodwin Gosling worke*s the 3rd Army had been Uf ted. around the parade ground on which J*15 personal representatives on the Since Monday, men of the 3rd Army had driven forward over 38 miles. After a sweeping movement which, and the Hon. Major R. W. Appleby Earlier in the meeting the Hon Sir in the last 48 hours had almost com were drawn up massed pipe bands General Staff, General Ismay and On the northern part of the western front the Germans were still of the division. tlie Chief of the Imperial General — could see slight chance of the Stanley Spurling had spoken of grimly fighting their way over the Rhine out of the shrinking bottleneck pleted the Soviet occupation of Pom hoped for policy being achieved. those who criticised but did not do erania east of the River Oder, Mar It was Prime Minister Churchill's Staff> neld Marshal Sir Alan Brooke at Wesel. where they were being pinched closer by men of the 1st Canadian suggests that decisions of paramount "PANAOFA TOR ATT TTT*» P*® *•?*£• J*** ***&**-? Said the and 9th American Armies. shal Gregory Zhukov's forces were only speech on his Western Front preparing to cross the Lower Oder tour. importance. were made in the con .rAJNAOiA FOR ALL ILLS' remark had struck him forcibly I for a drive north of Berlin, according To the troops he said: "I am very sultations with General Eisenhow Major Appleby said that as some T5ere were many P^P1*- bi the world By MARSHALL YARROW to late German reports of the fight proud to come to meet you on Ger er and Field Marshal Montgomery. Counciuore felt the jototcomm^?t^ T**,?.?? P^pared "to teU you what d 1 agr d what not to RHAT-T PARIS, March 6 (Reuter).—German tanks were today challeng ing tonight. man soil which our armies have It appears probable that the would be the "panacea for all the Eta ]\° £«. Jl ^? ' 1™* Boats, bridge-building material conquered. The Highland Division course of the battle west of the that flesh is heir to" he was prepar i o£,^£ ey "** ?ULon the sidellne ing the American advance to the Rhine south of Cologne. Rhine has been such as to call for Resistance was tougher south of Cologne and west of the university and pioneer equipment were being began with a terrible disaster." ed to go along with them m$ ^hen you *fk ttem to «*>me in He added that' in turn its ene- a number of strategic decisions on town of Bonn. The Germans were obviously attempting to hold their line brought up, said the German war aiuii-s WMJI "wsm. 3^ sonjethiug themselves orrespondent Armin Schoenberg P^es were now seeing ruin before the higest level. 6 do for west of Bonn as firmly as possible. The American advance was, therefore, The message tethe House about then there is eveiy reason to the relatively slow. while troop concentrations were them. The name of Scotland stood It was obviously impossible for Inside Cologne, the U.S. 3rd Armoured and 104th Infantry Divisions spreading downstream towards high, he continued, and the deeds the Supreme Commander or Field the jotot committee was moved by world why they are not able to do were on the Rhine's west bank. Resistance was still being met from Ger Schwedt, on the Lower Oder, 45 of the division could rank with those Marshal Montgomery to leave the the Colonial Secretary, the Hon. W. so." miles northeast of Berlin. of any other unit in the British front for consultations at this mo- L. Murphy, after the Council had re- TRIBUTE is PAID mans in houses and buildings. Army, ment. On the 3rd US. Army front. General George Patton's 4th Armoured German reports of the prepara- ceived the Assembly message about advance on I tions for the northern counterpart Mr. ChurchiU continued: "You Prime Minister Churchill, there- private use provisions being inco- ^ord Burghley and Sir Stanley paid Division had broken loose from the Kyll River crossing to of are now in the midst of victorious fore, evidently decided that the Schonbach, 11 miles northwest of Kochen. They overran four towns I Marshal Ivan Koniev's thrust be- porated in the public transport leg- tribute to the long service rendered yona b e came battles. Your struggle in the north urgency of the situation warranted islation. to the L.C.CA.. by Miss Elizabeth against light and scattered resistance. * * °d * * few hours has enabled great advances to be his making yet another journey, approaching a position in which It was revealed tonight that the commander of the German 53rd Corps, alter both the Soviet authorities and Mr. Murphy said, "It seems to me alsHiUso ,thankin who is ga tMrs presen. Fort di nBaxte the rKin fogr e e ans had made in the south, and soon we Obviously the next phase of the there is room for a mutuaUy agreed Lieutenant General Edwin Graf von Rothkirch, and his staff, were cap- £? *f J™ announced that that we are at the present time carryinEdwardg VIonI iMemorian a temporarl Hospitaly capacity, each.