Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 25, 1945, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final edition vol. Pages Cool. Winnipeg wednesday april 25, 1945 panic rampant ruined Berlin huge bomb ruins Hitler s House at Berchtesgaden London april 25 Koyal air Force Lancaster attacked Hitler s Beret Egden hideout with six ton earthquake bombs today and the air mini i i i _ a _ Tiv Wil in t 1 j-1 t1 i Stry announced tonight that showed Many bombs o ate squarely h s i j Cul ii us la Cju. Bull i ill Ull Ciu 10 in j v on Adolf Hitler s House and . Barracks nearby during the attack. Hitler s House was smashed to pieces Manitoba total shoots up faster than in 7th loan Manitoba raised during the first two Days of the 8th Canadian Victory loan Campaign. This is More than half a million dollars in excess of the amount contributed Dur ing the corresponding period of the 7th Victory loan and is almost 11 per cent of the province s objective. Greater Winnipeg individual sub around Berchtesgaden led some observers to speculate that Hitler was there. The nazis however had insisted he was directing the defence of Berlin. Reconnaissance Pilot an Allied reconnaissance Pilot flew Over Berchtesgaden five hours after the bombers struck. He said heavy concentrations of bombs had fallen into the area just East of Berchtesgaden and that smoke Hung Low in the valleys of the wooded rugged area where scattered fires still burned. He said Hitler s buildings were Between Berchtesgaden and a Camp about four Miles to the East and that the heaviest bomb pattern extended from the Camp past the buildings and on toward Berchtesgaden. I was unable to see definitely whether Hitler s hideout had been smashed or badly damaged but the pattern of heavy concentrated bombing extended across that the observer Pilot said. Mustang pilots escorting the Lancaster Over the Hitler hide put said the nazis threw up an intense barrage of anti aircraft fire. An official announcement said Hitler s House . Elite guard Barracks on the grounds and is Mountain Refuge on Kelstein five Miles from the House were at tacked. Separate forces 01 Lancaster carried out the attacks. Two of the Lancaster Are missing. . Bombers More than 250 liberators of the . 8th air Force bombed rail targets at Traunstein Salzburg Hallein and bad Rei Chenall. Hundreds of flying fortresses and liberators bombed the Skoda works at Pilsen. A fighter Pilot with the escorting planes on the Berchtesgaden raid said we were feet up today and the explosion of the . F bombs on Berchtesgaden Shook our Ascriptions excluding special names totalled in the first two Days. This was above the amount raised in the corresponding period of the last loan but it was below the amount required if the metropolitan area is to reach its goal for individual subscriptions according to figures released by the National War finance committee Manitoba Divi locations have been announced where . Planes will drop air plane Silhouette cards weather permitting during the Bonds from the Blue contest at 2.30 next saturday and saturday. May 5. The Elmwood and East Kildonan City limits and Henderson Highway. Transcona. Vacant lot Between King and Hoka streets. Children May get pass children who obtain Complete sets of the 10 different cards and hand them in to the Good deeds office of the t. Eaton company be 5 pm. May 9. Will receive a pass to the Capitol theatre for 0 saturday May 12. At inc the tickets will be torn m half and one half deposited in a Container from which the Lucky tickets will be drawn. In addition to the 20 ticket holders who will receive s3 each in War savings Stamps forty other ticket holders will be Given shopping certificates Good for is in the t. Eaton company limited the committee has announced. . 10 is hanging out its washing at Portage and main for the rest of the week As the Mobile laundry is in action capable of washing 25u blankets a Day. The blankets Are being neatly stacked in a tent. Every Day is Wash Day in the so when the machine was brought Down from fort Osborne Barracks. Wednesday afternoon Little time was wasted in getting it into opera Tion. Mobile laundries of this Type form part of the equipment of the Field laundry operated behind the fighting fronts overseas by the Roval Canadian ordnance the laundry works on a con sumption of Gallons of water. Heated by a fuel Oil Burner with forced air by electric motor fan military officials explained. It takes 16 minutes to Wash Batch of with two initial washes of five minutes each Liu degress then two warm minutes each at the same tempera loan continued on Page 3. Column 6 total to Date. Dominion objective. Dominion total to Date o Sot 1 749 450 total to Date still needed percentage of official minimum provincial per cent. Objective previous total since reported total to Date 13 03f buyers still needed str. Mpg. Citizens other than str. Provincial mpg. Citizens total 75 000 3916 _ Days this House was smashed to pieces to anguished. By a direct hit. Intense anti aircraft fire from the batteries two in Hospital after stabbing Dauphin Man., april 25. Special Brya Towich 70, and his wife. Tina 63, Short Dale District Are in a Dauphin general Hospital with Inife wounds and is charged with stabbing his wife in the breast and of stabbing himself in the stomach. Mrs. Branto is considered in serious condition but her Riu band is Given a fifty fifty Chance. The couple had a dispute which was legally opened before or. Justice w. J. Donovan tuesday and adjourned to 10 today but by 7 . Both were in Hospital. The amount involved both claiming private rights to the Money is Himmler s relative with . 9th Germany april 25. Chief Heinrich Himmler s brother in jaw major general Kokott was one of two German generals captured in the cleanup of the Harz Forest it was revealed today. Temperature readings Low during the night. 7.30 . 25. 10.30 ., april 25. 1.30 ., a Cril 25. This Lay last year. Big Ben Light Beacon of free people on again London april 25 cup the lantern Light Over big Ben burned last night for the first time since the Start of the War. The speaker in House of commons interrupted debate to switch it on at 9.30 In peace he said it has been the custom that the lantern Light above big Ber after Sunset to Light has been sex i press this switch our when lantern Light goes on again. In so doing i Pray that with god s bless no i Pray ing this Light May Shine not Only As an outward and visible sight that the parliament of a free people is assembled in free debate but also that it May Shine As a Beacon of sure Hope in a sadly torn and distracted canadians Seal pocket by William Boss with the 1st Canadian april 25. Up Canadian operation sealing off the Spink pocket along the South Shore of the Ems Estuary continued overnight with Cana Dian troops reaching at the pocket s Eastern extremity within half a mile of the North sea coast and Nieuwe schans on the Netherlands German Frontier. Today s communique from Allied Headquarters in Paris said Gen. Crerar s men had cleared the entire North sea coastline of Holland As far East As the Ems Estuary when the coastline North of Oudendijk is reached the germans will be contained in a strip three Miles deep and 14 Miles Long. Across the Ems River West of Oldenburg the 4th Canadian a Mored division deepened its Kusten canal Bridgehead when a Western Canada armoured reconnaissance regiment advanced 500 Yards. In Fantry of the division working eastward along the canal Bank broadened the Bridgehead by Yards in fighting which entailed brisk House Clearing operations. Poles launch thrust in the meantime just East of the Ems River and 15 Miles West of the 4th s Bridgehead the polish 1st armoured division consolidated West and South of Leer and launched a thrust eastward. There was no undue resistance in the polish sector but the Ger mans facing the canadians continued to put up a stubborn fight. In Western Holland South of the Guider Zee the Grebe line was the scene Only of patrolling. Search for enemy pockets was proceeding in the Woods West of Apeldoorn. Patrols were investigating civilian canadians continued on Page 4. Column 6 bulletins London april 25. Shal Stalin today announced Complete encirclement of Berlin and the Hamburg radio admitted that the russians had reached the heart of the City. London april 25. A top British troops have smashed through the suburbs of Bremen and Are fighting their Way to the Centre of the City a bbl front despatch said today. London april 25. Radio Brussels said american 3rd troops crossed the Danube River today and entered Regensburg. San Francisco april 25. Bup Secretary of state Edward r. Stettinius or. Foreign commissar v. M. Molotov for eign Secretary Anthony Eden and foreign Secretary t. V. Soong were meeting at noon today. The. Purpose of the meeting was not immediately disclosed. Nazis fleeing by As chaos grips City he said it has London april 25. Nazi officials were reported fleeing by air today from siege wracked Berlin Moscow despatches said chaos and panic were rampant in the German capital and the for Climax of the War s most spectacular Battle was near. A half to two thirds of Berlin had been overrun. Vas o5 i i i ninth in the cite for the final onslaught. Be War s most spectacular us lib Jachai. .0. To to rubble by two russian armies which had joined ital was almost encircled. Marshal Zhukov s had hooked around it from the North to Brandenburg due West of the capital and marshal Konov s men were hammering Potsdam at the southwestern Edge of the City. For All practical purposes Berlin is a despatch from Moscow said. The German High command admitted that in South Berlin the russians had reached a line through Neu Koelln. In which the Tempelhof Ai drome is situated Zeh Lundorf five Miles Southwest of potsdamer Platz and babes Borg. The Holly Wood of Germany and site of the bin . Studios two and halt Miles East of Potsdam. A communique said other soviet forces wore in the area of Kletzin on the Havel 10 Miles Northwest of Potsdam indicating that what Ever rap the nazis still had out of Berlin was shrinking fast. The Lux Bourk radio quoted Moscow despatches Sny Ink that the Topmost rank of the nazi Hierarchy had begun to leave Berlin by air. The report coincided with some indications that Hitler reported by the germans to be directing i 10 defence of pouring in he last remnants of his almost vanished fighting Power for a last stand by nazism in the ruins of the City where it flowered. Red Star the soviet journal said soviet assault units were smashing Block by Block to the Centre of Berlin and German machine gunners were emerging from subway tunnels for their last gasps of fanatical resistance. Another Moscow report said the desperate germans were Shuling troops around Berlin in subway trains in frantic attempts to Stem the red threats erupting m widespread and unexpected Quad russian forces were reported detached to Burrow underground and slash the subway lifelines and mos with up to the minute War developments recorded in pictures a soviet tank is shown breaking through outer defences into rubble heaped Berlin. The radio photo was sent to new York from red Star soviet newspaper and was dated april 24.____________ Winnipeg Man s son is freed from German torture Camp Belsen concentration Camp Germany april 23. Delayed a prison courtyards of the German atrocity Camps were torture Arenas rivalling those of the Days of Nero where dogs were turned in to rip the clothes from defenceless prisoners and naked men and women were paraded together in the ________1l------------------------------------------------------------ hitter rold. Persons liberated 46 nations ready for Job of peace by Frank Flaherty Canadian press staff writer san Francisco april 25. Of 46 nations today begin anew the task of building an organization to prevent War. Under conditions More urgent but hardly less difficult than those which prevailed when the covenant of the league of nations emerged from the 1919 peace conference ataris spokesmen for the governments of the United nations together to draft a new institution for a world organi action. That the task is difficult was pointed out by prime minister sing who told Canadian correspondents yesterday that he and his fellow parliamentary delegates Are determined to concentrate on he main of the do nothing to distract attention from it by Tak no premature stands on particular issues. That the task is More urgent than 26 years ago is pointed out by Clement Attlee. Deputy prime minister of Britain who Heads the United kingdom delegation. At a press conference he stressed he Power of modern weapons Ong Range planes and rockets and their capacity for carrying destruction to areas hitherto consid ered secure. When the delegates assemble at 6.30 o clock Winnipeg time for heir opening plenary session the san Francisco continued on Page 4. Column 5 official opening to be broadcast Here is the tentative schedule for the plenary session officially opening the United nations con Ference this evening and which will be broadcast Over Csc wbk and sky and Krc. 630 Secre tary of state Stettinius accompanied by gov. Earl Warren of California and mayor Roger Lap Ham of san Francisco make their appearance on the stage of san Francisco s War memorial opera House. 6 33 Speaks briefly and introduces president tru in. _ 6.35 President Truman Speaks from Washington. C 46 introduces gov. Warren for Brief address of Welcome. 6.50 introduces mayor Lapham for Brief address. G.54 addresses Sion briefly. 7 bitter cold persons liberated from this Camp said today. Among those liberated was Rev. Stanislaw Kadzialka of zem Bryce Poland whose father. Jakob lives in Winni Peg a group of women who had been held in Belsen Camp today de scribed nazi flogging of women s breasts lashing of the soles of feet forced prostitution the use of human beings for Vivi Section they declared were enjoyed by the women . Guards As Well As German Madame Irene Goldberg said that she had been in a prison in War saw her Home for two months. Every Day the . Guards brought a jew into the courtyards and set dogs upon him. The dogs ripped the clothes from the Man while the others watched. Occasionally the guards would enter the women s cells and lash them with whips. On Christmas eve. 1941, at Auschwitz. Alexandra Dutie wic. Of Warsaw said the germans erected a huge Christmas tree in the Centre of the Camp. Then guards gathered together a group of half dressed Gentile women and made them stand at attention in the bitter cold while truck loads of naked jewish i tre the tickets will be torn m Okli a a How totals stand As Guysborough torpedoed official provincial minimum Lieut. B. Russell ship s Captain did heroic Job eight sailors from Manitoba Are missing As a result of the loss by Torp doing in the North Atlantic of the Canadian mine sweeper Guysborough announced wednesday by Hon. Douglas c. Abbott Navy min ister. Three Manitoban and two Lakehead men Are among those listed As uninjured sur a. Total of 53 Crew members Are missing while 37 Are survivors the announce ment stated. Manitoban missing As a result of the Torp doing were announced As follows leading signalman Alexander Mowat Gair whose Mother mrs. Marjorie i. Gair. Resides at 549 Sherburn Street. Guysborough continued on Page 3. Column 1 men truck Jonas a a. In tie and women were paraded expected. Not Tell where he had hidden us wealth said i cannot feel hate. I Don t believe i can feel any hate love affection or anything. Say Schuschni Fuff slain Flossena Buric concentration Camp Germany. April 25. Former Chancellor. Kurt Schuschnigg has been slain by the nazis and Germany s finance minister. Or Hjalmar Schucht has been taken to the notorious Dachau concentration Camp freed prisoners told United states troops yesterday after the americans liberated this the prisoners said Schacht was arrested after the plot against Hitler had failed last july. Among those taken to Caznau liberated prisoners said were Schuschnigg s wife the _ former countess Vera Fugger von Babenhausen and Small daughter and atrocities continued on Page 4. Column 4 limit Relief goods pending Campaign by Chester a. Bloom Ottawa april 25. Canadian the eight Manitoban reported missing. And smaller organizations to sex p Foj head Over the Rhine Cap port clothing from Canada will Bridgehead Over in be limited to shipments to the United kingdom As heretofore u was Learned Here today. No def Ite plan for a National Campaign has yet been prepared. Sas the Suway cow said the Battle underground was raging with unabated Lury Berlin continued on Pago 4. Column 5 yanks charge up to Danube Paris april 25. Rampaging . 3rd charged to the Danube and within 82 Miles of Berchtesgaden today in 28-mile gains rolling up the Alpine Foothills. In the Northern redoubt the British 2nd stormed Bremen tightened the siege of Hamburg and bombed troop trains pulling into Denmark. First Canadian forces have cleared the North Holland coast line As far East As the Mouth of he Ems Estuary an Allied com american russian Junction the Centre of the front was men an expect. Around the compound several the . 7th crossing inc times. Danube at perhaps a dozen places Maria Hollaender of Hungary was ast reported 40 Miles irom whose father was beaten to death Munich. By the germans because he would exploiting i is the american 7lh and French 1st armies Are exploiting Pic or Danube Bride cheats in drives to t c Swiss and austrian Borders with the encirclement Munich shaping up where the armies Are Canadian spilt British 2nd driving into Centre of Bremen. . 1st deploys along Elbe nearer Berchtesgaden. . On Munich. . 3th advancing East of Mulde River. French san gun. A. I. Goldberg associated reported roup Headquarters one redoubt in the South perhaps has been invaded already by Glt group troops which have outflanked Lake con stance its Western limit. The 10th armoured division thai 7th captured Ober Ballheim. 07 Miles West of Munich and 97 from the Brenner pass into Italy. The 3rd, 7th and French 1st armies were rolling with unchecked pop. 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