Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 27, 1945, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final Cool. Winnipeg april 27, 1945 Sun rises. 6.13 Sun sets 20.40. Moon rises. 20.59 Moon sets. 6.46 vol. Pages. Edition Lou it. Moon rises. 20.53 Moon Seis. Juncture e with russians soviet forces launch final blows at Berlin american soldiers shown the bodies of some of the burial at the German concentration Camp the atrocities committed inside Germany. Trie d Ovies us. Us Iii tin Nordhausen Germany. This Camp is another example of speeches inspire Parley with new and rising Hope by Bruce Hutchison Francisco Calif april United nations conference glow atrocity Camp report issued e degradation lowest Point descended. The report was issued As an official British government White paper comprising the findings of a group of members of the House of commons and the House of lords who visited the concentration Camp. To which humanity has yet u11u. Their Mission was to verify stories of terrible mass Slaughter cremation emasculation the skin Ning of victims and deliberate use of humans for medical experiments. They found the stories to be True. Eight the commons and two members of the lords general Camp was for men and boys Only but that a number of women from other Camps had been induced by threats and the Promise of better treatment to become prostitutes for a Brothel maintained for higher Grade Oris used As transit Hospital the hut in which the women were housed now is used As a Tran condition of prisoners found there. 4. Many were unable to speak. Said they Lay in a Semi coma or followed us with their eyes. Others Snoke quite freely displaying sores. Levere scars and bruises which could have been caused by kicks and blows. They Lay on the floor on and under quilts. All of them were in a state of extreme the usual clothing of prisoners. The report said Vas a raised shirt Vest or Cotton jacket beneath which protruded a thigh no thicker chair Manship Snag develops san Francisco april 27. Bup the russians were conceded today to have won two c their first three major demands on the United nations but they have now dead locked the world Security Confer ence on the Issue of major chairmanships. Molotov apparently had won on the russian demands for three votes and for the right of veto by major Powers. The polish question was yet to come up. The conference steering commit tee met again this morning to seek a Compromise on russian objection to making . Secretary of state Edard r. Stettinius. Or. Perman ent conference chairman. Important delegates Are protest ing sharply the conference manage ment which permitted a deadlock to occur on the relatively unimportant matter of who shall bang the Gavel and where. Molotov. However has objected chairmanship continued on Page 5. Column 3 were no reservations no doubts and no special pleading. The abundant crop of. Dark rumours which a grown up Here seemed to Wither these men spoke and today the conference begins Rea business with a new and rising Hope. It was a moment of suspense a moment which history will Long Mark when the barrel Chester Fig ure of the russian foreign minister strode briskly up to the Rostrum about this Man and his government the Waves of rumours have been beating fiercely for Days. He refuse All Compromise and insist on the letter of Dumbarton does rus Sia really believe in the chances o collective Security Molotov s answer was Clear. Rus Sia is Here to make the conference a Success and Russia s friends All the friends of can count upon its co operation in the great cause. But the conference did not under stand this answer at first for Molo Tov spoke in his own language which is known to few delegates. He spoke in a booming Earnest voice his Square powerful head Larking up and Down As he emphasized his Points. This remarkable product of the russian revolution this spokesman of the new Russia who signed a treaty of peace with Germany in 1939 and has Learned and unlearned much since then does not look like a politician or Diplomat. He has the air of an am up and Edc memo the delegation said some of the prisoners could not be expected to survive. Those who survived Thev said. Probably would be permanently 01 a i., in inmates the report said. The living were Strong enough they pushed the fhe Lead new thrown into a Small Annex at one end of the hut. And each morning they were collected carts to the crematorium or if required to the pathological Laboratory of the nazi doctors. Appeared to have been the regular method of killing at the Camp the report said. A hit in the Yard near a Dile of White ashes there was a Sibbet. In the is Lent we saw Strong Hooks at of about from the 40 Hooks most of been used for knocking out any who died slowly it was Stam de with. totter in into Paris april 27. And russian ironies have joined forces on Elbe River below Berlin n a Junction that Cut Germany into three broken fragments and sealed the doom of Hitler s nazi vanguards of the two armies merged their East Ern and Western fronts yesterday at the River town of Tougau 75 Miles South of the German capital at London april 27. Troops launched the final concentric assault on the roads Lonoff Ahmed trails from Stalin _. _ .1 i fill Mutl 1 to Only 3. Hid Llaca faltering heart of Berlin today irs. The German capable of carrying a soviet mass assault and by counter attacks drove the enemy from the inner defence the communique said the rus sians were attacking Rathenow and Brandenburg in the sector uan a swedish report said the fall of berm was ony a London april 27. Cap russian troops have captured Spandau in Western outskirts of Berlin Potsdam five Miles out Side the capital area and Rathenow 33 Miles to the West marshal Stalin announced to night. West of Berlin where they had pushed almost to the Elbe in the area of Tan Termuende where the enemy said the american ninth had made a crossing of the River. Fanatical nazi diehards purportedly led by Hitler were re ported falling Back into the tier at the heart of Berlin for a last hopeless stand. Red assault forces plunging for the tie Garten from the North were reported to have overrun the Moa Oit District. A Mutual broadcasting correspondent in Stockholm reported it is Only a matter of hours before the russian High command can announce that Berlin is ours. Eyewitness reporters say that All resistance outside the fortress in tie Garten is unorganized and sporadic and that by Nightfall Fri Day Berlin will be considered liquidated British United press correspondent Henry Shapiro reported from Moscow that marshal Zhukov s As Sault battalions storming through Siemens act broke into Chariot Tenbury and linked up with mar Shal Konev s troops battling North Ward from the botanical gardens. A Circle is drawn around the heart of Berlin with spearheads trusting from the Gorlitzer Sta Tion northwestward and the pan District southward within Kow Rifle Range of the Shapiro reported. Newspaper red me gains along the Ligutan coast British 8th had pressed on to the heart of Berlin without delaying to clean up All the resistance behind their Jarius ii of Foremost spearheads. It said the dated positions along the South germans were holding hundreds of the adige River. Of russian hostages. Red Star said an increasing number of German officers and of men after using up All their to to c has driven into Austria the in is Munich to the North the British 2nd is closing on Ham radio says Allied troops in Genoa Verona London april 27. Milan radio said the free nine Miles Southwest of Verona the a Reeni broadcast today that Allied troops had in Genoa. Northern italian City of Banks _ continued Jill us Fri fall of Verona was announced 3 heir dash to Piacenza on the troops pressed Forward for a rapid cleanup of Northern Italy Wuh the Allied 5th rolling Piacenza the seizure i j. The 5th to about 36 Miles South a communique disclosed mop Nink up activities still were in pro Gress in Verona and said our along the main Milan Highway. Ii was not known whether they had taken intact the Bridge across the to Piacenza is an Industrial and agricultural town of in the Middle of Rich oilfields. Fifth troops reported the capture of major general Pehlke commander of the 334th division. It also was disclosed that Graf von Schwerin. Commander of the 76th Panzer corps when taken recently said i know the Situa Tion of German soldiers in North Ern Italy is individuals buying Bonds faster than in last loan individual citizens both in Winnipeg and in other parts of Manitoba have so far done better in Canadian Victory loan than during the correspond inf Canada however they must maintain their Erica Speaks business like one executive a n d in Short clipped Speas e o sentences. But what was he saying to the world in these Twenty min utes of his speech Russia still champions a Sandy haired Man translated the significance of the speech and it was quickly Clear to the Confer conference continued on Page 4, column 4 8th period of 100 per cent Effort if the prov Ince is to meet the biggest financial test in its history the raisins of for the present loan. During the first four Days of the Campaign the. Province netted the National finance committee Manitoba Divi Sion announced Friday. Greater Winnipeg individual subscriptions excluding special names totalled during the first this was More than in the corresponding period of the last loan. Individual subscriptions from greater Winnipeg so far a an increase of Barberry s four chinese have each bought a Victory Bond. At the noon ceremony. Friday. George Waight interviewed com. U. M. Sutherland. Cameron Highland ers a Veteran of Caen and Falaise. Who won the military medal for Gallant leadership in assuming com Mand of his company after two company commanders had been killed in action. Outside employees of the Prudential in. Durance company of America. Win office have already purchased s2.750 with More to follow. Larger subscriptions reported Fri Day were As follows National Grain company limited. S200.0m Reliance Grain company limited Beaver fire insurance company Netherlands investment company of Canada limited. 000 Dominion envelope and car tons Western limited. Willson stationery company limited 000 Winnipeg envelopes limited. S10.000. 800 applications trans Canada air lines reported that 800 applications already have been received from Winnipeg employees for a total of More than 80 per cent of the Sel for Winnipeg employees. Both railways report Good Prog Ress is being made with the Victory loan canvass. Well Over Worth of Victory Bonds were sold to employees of the Western Region Victory loan continued on Page 3. Column 8 How totals stand _ n 1 wit -11-Vii-i to i i official provincial minimum objective total to Date o Dominion objective 1.350, Dominion total to Date . Citizens provincial total other than str. Business Brazen mpg. Citizens objective sus totals ,900 since reported s total to still needed percentage of official minimum provincial objective of per cent. Buyers objective previous total since reported 5.172 total to Date buyers still needed other than str. Mpg citizens fifth Damp idea maybe Manitoba to get showers Low during the Niff lit. 9.30 ., april ?7 10.30 ., april 27 1.30 ., april 27 this Day last year Snow fell during the night a Many Alberta and Saskatchewan Points but in Manitoba was con fined to the Northern part of the province. The Pas recorded of Inch during the 24 hours ended a 7.30 Friday. Manitoba will have Cloudy skies with Snow flurries and possibly som Light rain in the Southern part o the province during the rest of Fri Day and saturday according v the weather office. Temperature ill remain on the Cool Side. Grad and the beaches of the Junction split the Reich into three crumbling islands of resistance centring around the North sea ports besieged by British and Canadian armies the Berlin area and the bavarian redoubt in the mountains of Southern Germany and Austria. Still another american russian link up appeared imminent in the bavarian Foothills bordering Hitler s Berchtesgaden. Retreat where the . 3rd established radio Contact with a red Force apparently Only 30 to 40 Miles away. The 3rd also captured the danubian stronghold of Regens drug 60 Miles North of Munich. Troops of the . 1st s 69th infantry division pushed out from the Mulde River 30 Miles from the Elbe to join up with the 173rd russian guards regiment in Tougau on. The West Bank of the Elbe. As they went Forward hundreds of War weaned German prisoners lined the roadsides to watch the Parade of Allied Power that foretold the death of nazi Dom and the final destruct Ion of Germany s military might. German resistance appeared to have collapsed completely in the Junction area. The Dusty roads West of Tougau were reported choked with thousands of beaten nazi soldiers and German civilians All fleeing for the Mulde River in a Panicky Rush to enter the american lines and escape the avenging red . The remnants of Germany s Northern armies were going Down in the smoke and flame of encircled Berlin and on the British front in North sea ports of Hamburg and Bremen taking with them the nazi dynasty that Hitler boasted would endure for a thousand years. Patrols from the two armies met for the first time on the Elbe wednesday afternoon at 4.40 9.40 ., Winnipeg but the first Junction in Force was not effected until 8 1 . Yesterday when the soviet guards regiment and. The unit joined hands in Tougau. . Reinhardt. Commander of the 69th. Led his division into the battered River town where almost two centuries ago another russian joined its austrian allies to a Lilly ju1ihsu j. To fight Frederick the great of Prus Sia their common enemy in the seven years War. Another Large nazi Force was trapped hopelessly in Central Ger Many and Czechoslovakia pinned Between the merged american and russian lines in the North and the american 3rd into Austria in the South. The size of the Central German pocket was Uncertain but the juncture continued on Pace 5, column s . Patrol walks in by Accident bulletins London. April 27. Cup the evening news said reports Are current in London today that Gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler was dead. It recalled hat recently the British shot up a car in Northwest Germany and speculation circulated that Himmler was one of the victims. London april 27. Zurich despatch of the Exchange Telegraph said today that Reich marshal Hermann goer ing shot his five daughters and then himself when the nazis sentenced him to death and ordered him to execute his own death sentence. With . Third in in Germany april 2.7. Prisoners said today that Field marshal Albert Kesselring. Germany s last West Ern front commander May have been in the danubian City of Regensburg when it was Cap tured Ivan meets a Joe provincial total by John r. Mcdermott with the United states Al Rel in Germany april 27 bup the first juncture Between the Ameri can and russian forces actually took place by Accident. A 20-Man american patrol which failed to receive orders to halt its Advance walked into the russian lines. The formal juncture at Torrau did not take place until later. The Surprise meeting occurred the Little town of Riesa on the Elbe River. A radio message had been sent to the Little american talc Force ordering it to halt after it reached five Miles beyond the Mulde River. But the americans never got the message. None of the americans spoke russian but it did t matter. Lieut. Albert Krevet Crew of the american patrol his uniform covered with dust walked toward the russians and stuck out his hand. A russian Soldier Shook hands with him. History May record that the official juncture took place at Tor Gau but the men of the Little . Patrol who reached Riesa have their own ideas. The juncture at Tougau occurred at 4.20 ., wednesday. President Truman said the juncture occurred thursday Lieut. William b. Robertson of los Angeles led the patrol that met the russians at Tougau. I made a wild jeep ride to Tougau and when i arrived the downtown part of the town still was burning from russian shells that dropped into it two hours earlier. American and russian soldiers were whooping it up., it looked something like a country fair and playing Balalaika. Vodka was being passed around and although nobody understood what the other fellow was saying everybody was having a Good time. Some of the russian soldiers were demonstrating their guns to the americans by firing into the Elbe River. Bravo yells red Soldier by Ann Stringer Torg a Germany april 28 delayed the Street of Tougau came a russian youth Wear ing Blue shorts and a Grey Cap with a red Hammer and sickle on in. Bravo he yelled. Bravo he was dripping wet because he Nad swum the Elbe River to Greet us it was my first glimpse of the russian . I had just flown in a Piper cub plane into this town where the official juncture of the americans and russians took place. We landed in a Clover Field climbed Over two roadblocks and then saw the Young russian running up the Street. A Little earlier american patrol had penetrated to Tougau. The Elbe River is swarming with russian soldiers stripped to their Celebration continued on pane 5. Column 4 ;