Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 15, 1944, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final edition rises 6.36. Sun sets 20 21 2-45 Moor sets u.26 Winnipeg saturday april 15, 1944. . Craft maintain their tradition on these As As Well As in the air. Of pulling through regardless of the Odds. In the above picture members of the a. . Marine Section Clear the ice sheathed decks of the Beaver a Small wooden vessel hardly larger than a Harbor tug which recently completed a hazardous trip delivering full equipment for an . Anti submarine Squadron. The Little Supply boat built i Orth Atlantic the trip it Nar _ caught in an ice Field missed floating mines by scant distances and was threatened with fire which broke out in the Galley a few feet from a Large gasoline tank. Second front strategy bewilder nazi command by William h. Stoneman London april 15. Special can failure of the allies to open the second front before now has had the strange left handed effect of Balling up higher German strategy ocl though it it was certainly the desire of the German High command that Allied intentions in the West be clarified while the russians were still be Hind their own frontiers. Pending the opening of the second front it has been necessary for the Ger mans to stretch their forces Over a wide area in Western Europe in order to be Able to meet the Allied armies wherever they might land. In the East. Canadians bag 4 nazi planes Northern Central Norway Southern Norway Denmark. Bel Gium Northern France the Bay of Biscay and Southern France have All had to be guarded necessitating a highly uneconomical Distri. Button of the limited divisions that the germans have available. Once the allies have Muncie their major landings and the germans have been Able to account for All the forces that they think we have available they will be Able to concentrate troops in areas whore they Are needed switch forces rom spots where we obviously Are not Active and in general achieve a far More economical arrangement of their total forces. Nazi Hope the germans hoped until it was too late that we would make our position Clear to them in time to London april 15. Canadian pilots maintained the blazing hot Pace of the City of Edmonton Mosquito Squadron Fri by shooting Down four enemy planes on Long Range patrols which took them Over the Kattegat separating Denmark and Sweden. They also destroyed several planes on the ground near Copenhagen. The Canadian Sharp shooters . R. Kipp of Kamloops b.c., and. Of. J. Caine of Edmon ton in their foray brought the Squadron s score of enemy victims to 13 destroyed three probables and seven dam aged in six Days. Kipp blasted one of four ju52 transports into the sea when the quartet was sighted by the two Mosquito pilots Over the Kattegat near Copenhagen. Caine downed two of them and the fourth Ger Man plane without waiting to be Hitler s proposal new York april 15. Clandestine radio Atlantic said Las night that Adolf Hitler had suggested to Pope Pius that the Church excommunicate every Pilot of Catholic Faith who raids Catholic churches or other buildings sacred to catholics. i icel Fly Ultra 111 Ullie la r j perfect a grand plan involving the attacked crash landed and establishment of an Eastern de Fence line East and North of the lines the russians now hold. Then if they were successful in contain ing our beachhead they might Nave shifted stray divisions from the West to hold that Eastern de Fence line. Because they have been Uncer Tam of our plans right up until now. 1aey have not been Able to shift the necessary number of reserves to the East. Now. Whether they to or not they will certainly Nave to do so. Uncertain though hey still Are in regard to the nature of the blow Ive Are going to strike them. There is definitely a Point in the cast beyond which the germans cannot retire without risking com plete unadulterated disaster and that Point is rapidly being reached. It is certain for example that they cannot allow the russians to pass the line stretching from Riga to Warsaw to pro Etsyl. To the Mouth of the Danube without the raves consequences. To prevent them Irum doing so the germans clearly will have to summon All hands scrape the Bottom of their Man Power cupboard and in View of the sea. On the Way Home the canadians set afire three planes on the ground at Lastrape Airfield near Copenhagen and damaged two others. Alter All their ammunition was exhausted the most Tsitos were at tacked in route hobe near the enemy coast by two few 190s, Bui the 400-mile-an-hour plywood planes outdistanced their pursuers in other operations yesterday . Fighter bombers attacked rim 6.34. Sun jo.j3. Moon rises 3.35. Moon sett .12.31. Cool fleeing nazis Are driven into Crimea death pocket Sevastopol unshaven unkempt and tattered German and romanian soldiers their escape Cut off by the lightning russian Advance surrendered in Masse As the soviet Reconquest of the 30.000-Square-Nule Crimea entered its final phase a week before it began. More than prisoners had Teri rounded up by thursday and most As Many More troops and been slain by two red armies Nat smashed simultaneously into he Crimea from the North and East list week end. Swarms of red air Force lighters track planes and bombers swept Fie 60 Miles of the South coast still n Axis hands with an almost con Tant Hail of bombs and bullets and joined warships Black sea Leet in blockading the Shoreline rom the sea to thwart any Lue evacuation attempt. A 3.000-ton transport several Mallei ships and three yelled Landing barges loaded with infantry were sunk while a Large Nemy transport was set afire and Ive self propelled Landing Barget a mine laying ship were dam aged severely. Gen. Feodor i. To Bukhin s 4th ukrainian and Gen. Andrei Yeremenko s Independent maritime liberated More than 507 Lowns and villages yesterday in advances it up to 53 Miles the greatest even achieved by soviet forces. To Bukhin s main column racing Down the first class Highway Paral Eling the Simferopol Sevastopol railway seized Bakhchi Sarai ancient tartar capital Miles North East of Sevastopol and pushed on toward the naval base. Another Force advancing South Ward around the Bay from the West coast port of yes Pateriya reached . 18 Miles North of East of Sevastopol to Bukhin s 4th effected a Junction with Yeremenko s maritime forces and drove on to the South coast to Cap Ture the port and health resort of Lushta. 43.Miles East of Sevastopol. Yere Nenko s men cleared the entire remainder of the Crimea to the North and East except for Dis organized isolated pockets while j the 4th mopped up the West coast. Prisoners marched to Assembly Points in Long dejected lines reminiscent of the German debacle at Stalingrad. They appeared dazed As though unable to realize what had happened. Some said German and romanian generals had fled by plane leaving their men to decisions of West of the Crimea. Gen. Rodi ii y. Malinov Lcy s 3rd Virtu ally completed tha vibe ratio of the Ukraine by Clearing the entire southwestern tip below Odessa of the remnants of the routed Gar Rison of that port. Marshal Gregory k. Zhukov s 1st ukrainian rallying alter a withdrawal in the face of Strong German attacks advanced on a 15 mile front and captured 40 towns and villages North of Cernuti. These included Star a Yagel Nitsa 38 Miles South of. Tarnopol and 25 Miles Northeast of Skala and Tor see 33 Miles North of Cernuti and 25 Miles West of Skala. Mud and water have replaced the roads on the Eastern front. This German message runner and his motorcycle give a vivid impression of conditions under which the germans Are retreating. Gen. Vatu in Dies after operation London april 15. Nikolai f. Vatu in who of remanded the 1st ukrainian in the liberation of Kiev and its March into pre War Poland died last night at Kiev after. Serious operation. Radio Moscow in announcing tie eath. Called Vatu in one the lost gifted of the Young military a dvrs who came to the fore in the Ourse the War for the father it was Vatu in s attacks in Rie Belgorod sector last August hat launched the russians on their Reat 1943-1944 Southern front of pensive which since has carried into Czechoslovakia and Romania As Well As Poland. Vatu Liu about 45 years old be ame ill and was relieved of his command Early in March. Premier Osef Stalin announced March 5 hat marshal Gregory k. Zhukov. Assistant commissar of defence had Aken Active command of the 1st Irmy which Only me Day before had tarted a new drive in the South Western Ukraine. No further word was released regarding Valutis s illness until today. The Broad faced. Stocky Gen. Vatu in was a typical red commander in that Little Ever was revealed about his personal life. Fifth smashes attack near Cassino Naples april germans intensifying their activity a the upper Garigliano sector of the main italian 5th front shelled one area for More than two hours yesterday and attempted infiltrations of the Allied lines but the attacks were frustrated and other sorties broken up after some fight Canada relinquishes privileges in China Ottawa april 15. Up Canada concluded yesterday a treaty with China formally relinquishing extra territorial rights and other privileges which under treaty provisions Canada together with other nations previously exercised in China. Announcement of the completion of the treaty was made last night by prime minister Mackenzie King. It provides that no later than six months after the cessation of hostilities the two governments will enter into a comprehensive mod Ern treaty of Friendship Commerce navigation and consular the treaty completed yesterday was signed by or. King and by or. Liu Shin shun chinese ambassador to Canada. In its terms it is Sim Ilar to the British extra territorial treaty concluded 011 behalf of the United kingdom Northern Ireland wet prize air Ace to get Case of scotch new York april. 15. Eddie Rickenbacker said today that during a visit to new Guinea he promised a Case of scotch to the first Pilot in the area who broke his United states treaty concluded on the same Date. Motor and i sweeps Over Mitory said a Canadian com Munique today. And India Jan. 11. 1943. And the first great War record and that China Gem. Douglas Macarthur added a Case of Champagne. Maj. Richard l. Bong credited ill 27 enemy or s record was a qualified Lor the Reward Southwest Pacific Des the first formal treaty Ever sign r transport in Northern France d b with China it pro . Fighters carried out k All International agree enemy occupied 1er j which authorize any British French coast invasion Alert London april 15. Cup the daily mail in a Madrid despatch said today that a three hour general invasion Alert had sounded wednesday night along or Canadian authority to exercise jurisdiction in Chimi Over cauda an nationals Are abrogated. The Canadian government agrees an Gove to co operate with the the Brittany coast of France. Tal batteries Over a stretch of Miles blazed away while a num Ber of armoured units moved out of their the despatch i a Oil Al 111 v1uw of we More immediate danger in the East take a change on Krave but unseen dangers in Lac West. New talk stirred on Halifax plan by b. T. Richardson Ottawa ont., april 15. Reactions to a made by it. Hon. Malcolm Macdonald British High com missioner to Canada earlier this week in Montreal have Shoy new developments in the controversy Over Commonwealth relations which has raged in Canada since january when Halifax outlined in Toronto Post War world in which the Bri ish nations grouped in common policies would play the role of one Tan Power among other titans As Russia and the United because he declared the Mac in Donald speech appeared to Render Good service in drawing i mention to the dangers of the bal 1 Jytte of Power John progressive conservative has come under fire from veral Eastern newspapers that d the Halifax thesis and criticized prime minister Mackenzie King s Sharp repudiation of tha tests in a speech in february. Acil comment the Brief Bracken comment his first expression of opposition to the theory of common foreign policies for All British nations which lord Halifax had linked with his theory of a world dominated by Titan pow ers Drew the acid comment of the Toronto Telegram that he would have done better to Tell the Nide a Ichardson continued on Page 2, column 3 e chinese gov treaty continued on Page 2, column. 4 patches said today. I will obtain the scotch or How i can get it to major Bong is yet capt. Kicken Backer said in a statement. But i vill not leave a Stone unturned to fulfil my part of. The bargain. Ing Headquarters announced today. The two hour barrage was concentrated in a sector South of Sant Andrea about eight Miles South of rubbed Cassino and the infiltrations were attempted North and East of Sant ambrogio which lies about seven Miles South Cassino. Allied patrols were Active on All ones inflicting a com Tui Nique said. Allied planes hitting at German bases in Italy flew yesterday climaxed by heavy and medium bomber blows against the West coast ports of Piombino and Santo Stefano last night Headquarters announced. Medium bombers plastered an Airfield at Viterbo North of Rome and also blasted the rail Yards at Livorno leghorn and rail Bridges at Cert Aldo Buscine Arezzo and Cecina. Harbours hammered the pre Dawn air attacks on the the West coast harbours rounded out 34 hours of widespread raids on German communications through out Italy by Allied aircraft during which four German planes were shot Down and five Allied planes lost. The germans have been using All three ports to an increasing extent to move supplies and shift troops since Allied bombers Cut their principal longitudinal rail lines last month. German planes struck with a half hour attack on Naples just before Dawn today. Anti aircraft guns were in action. Six German planes also attacked the beachhead yesterday but at least Allied planes Over Germany London april Radi stations said today that Stron enemy fighter formations were approaching Northwest Germany indicating thai the Allied air Force were resuming their attacks on the Reich alter a one Day Lull. The broadcasts heard Here at 1.3 . 6.30 . Made no men Naples april 15. A american heavy bombers again smashed targets in Bucharest today a Headquarters announce ment said. Lion of bombers and it was pos sible that Allied Long Range fighter had embarked on offensive sweep Over German airfields and othe targets. The hungarian radio reporter that nuisance raiders were Eye Budapest and other Hungar a towns during the night but this a not confirmed by any Allied com Munique. American heavy bombers wer grounded yesterday by inclement weather As were planes of the . Bomber command last nigh however american Thunderbolt fighter bombers darted from Clouds and destroyed 20 of 50 German planes on an Airfield in northeastern Gen. N. E. A Axil in he was born m the mid Volga Region and had been a member of the red since the revolution. During the Retreat in 1941, he held his rank Whan other officers unable to Cope with the German Blitzkrieg were being pulled to desk jobs. Vatu in received the order of Surovov first degree in december 1942 for his Brilliant generalship in the 1942 Winter drive. As com Mander of the North Don he drove across the Steppes from a Point above Stalingrad while other soviet troops were encircling Ger mans in that City to capture Khar Kov in february 1943. He was forced to relinquish the City later. Raised to a five Star general he aided in halting the German. 1943 summer offensive at Orel kursk and Belgorod. When the russian offensive began july 12, 1943, Arouri Orel his drove Forward to capture Belgorod in August. After that he assumed command of the 1st and continuing Westward climaxed a drive by Cap curing Kiev third City in Russia and capital of the Ukraine. His men went into action dec 24 on a 50-mile front which soon extended several Hundred Miles and put the germans in full Retreat. On Jan. 6 the 1st crossed the pre War polish Border in a drive that carried to Luck Poland 230 Miles beyond Kiev. Japs at vital Imphal Trail new Delhi april 15. A front despatches said last night hat japanese troops had reached he by Shenaur Wilchar Trail running Southwest and West of the Allied Indian base of Imphal and suffered a dozen casualties in an engage ment with Allied troops there. This route previously had been described As the last land link be tween the Imphal defenders and the main Allied at the big Allied base of Kohima North of Imphal the japanese with Drew after an initial penetration into the Hills West and Northwest of town the despatch added. The japanese put 30 fighter planes Over the Imphal ukr us area wednesday in their biggest Aerial observation show since their appearance Over the Chabura Ledo sector feb. 27. Spitfires intercepted the japanese planes and damaged two before the enemy scooted into the Clouds. At latest report the japanese whose strength is not accurately known had not yet launched a major attack at any. Point around Imphal. At Kohima the other big Allied Advance base 60 Miles to the North. British and Indian counter attacks against the japanese inva Sion forces Are yesterday s communique said. Lend lease fictions blasted by Crowley by Fred Mullen Washington april 15. Foreign economist administrator Leo t. Crowley today blasted As fictions a Long list of charges against the use of lend lease funds rang ing All the Way from rumours that lend lease butter was being used to grease the boots of red soldiers to More serious two of them were believed to have France yesterday without loss to been shot Down. Themselves. Boga Jim taken by australians Allied Headquarters Southwest Pacific april hardened australian troops were driving toward the major Jap naval Supply port of Padang on the Northern new today after capturing its protective base of Bogad anese air and Guinea coast weather smiles for week end temperature readings Low during the Iii list 7.30 ., april 15 9.30 ., april 15 11.30 ., april 15 this nor if Cut i itt ii it Hon i no f if Jim us Kwh _ creases by the hour. In one month said the germans shot five Mem alone More than 250 railway of the German women s ser Miner at Sherritt Gordon mine for the past Siv years was instantly killed by a falling Rock Friday. He leaves a wife and three Chil Dren. He came North from Val Paraiso sask. The body was sent to Tisdale eask., for burial. F of whom 750 belonged to Security services thousands of wounded and innumerable armed assaults plundering and thefts. The Netherlands newspaper Rij Netherland published in London vice accused of mixing too freely with the Netherlands population and spreading rumours. From Stockholm came a Story of assassinations of members the in Czecho Slovakia. Ten czechs including a woman teacher were condemned by a Ger Man special court and executed for harbouring or otherwise assist ing enemies of the Reich As Well at escaped prisoners of War ;