Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 30, 1945, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final edition Sun rises 6.08 Sun sets 20.44. Vol. Pages Moon rises 24.14 Moon sets 8.03. Mild Winnipeg monday april 30, 1945 v jj.----1mu. Moon rises h3.li Moon sets . A British Cabinet discusses peace allies Home april 30. Victory in Italy was announced today by Gen. Clark in a proclamation that 25 German divisions had been torn to pieces and no longer could resist effectively the British 8th and Allied oth armies. The military Power of Germany in Italy has practically ceased Clark . His statement put the official Seal on clearcut evidence that nazi resistance in North Italy was collapsing. The Allied commander in Italy under Field marshal Alex Ander issued his Victory announcement As the 8th and 5th armies were stampeding through North Italy. The British captured Venice. Yugoslavian forces were reported fighting in the streets of Trieste toward which the British 8th was driving Only 58. Miles away. The americans took ales Sandria in Northwest Italy and the British took Chi aggie in the Northeast on the Adriatic sea. The allies had come to the Trail s end in the push up the italian Boot. It began at the Reggio Calabria toe of the Boot when United kingdom and Canadian troops stormed across the Straits of Messina from Sicily and from the bloody beaches of Salerno where the americans landed to secure the vital port of Naples. From a command Post in the Field where he was with the 15th group. Gen. Clark issued the Fol lowing special statement troops of the 15th group m have so smashed the German armies i 1 in Italy that they have been Virtu id v Rel Lull ally eliminated As a military Force o this destruction has All been accomplished in the offensive which London april 30. Is new 22 Days old for the eighth red tanks broke into the and 15 Days old for the major i taif a i Fay rms tie Garten of the last eight Square pocket of inf Iff a it to a any hour russians plan party in Berlin London april 30." press association military correspondent said that when Berlin which May be any was expected the russians would invite Token troops of. The British and american armies to participate in the celebrations. Tanks reach Irten and both the russians and nazis said the Climax of the historic Battle a at hand today. A Moscow despatch forecast tha marshal Stalin will have his greatest symbolic Victory of the capture of present to the russian their May Day Celebration. The nazi controlled Oslo radio admitted that russian tanks broke into the tie Garten Berlin s Cen trial Barb where the nazis were reputed to have built a massive fort. Planes and artillery in some quarters where the Ger mans have particularly Strong Pill Box and Bunker Oslo said soviet tanks had to with draw and wait for their planes and artillery to crush German resistance. This was particularly the Case in the soviet despatches delayed far be Hind the course of the Battle said that already the West and South districts of Berlin were cleared and that the fighting had waged beyond the a Halter station to the tie Garten and Reich Stag areas. To Nustgarten courtyard German broadcasts admitted soviet Shock troops also had broken through to the Lustgarten court Yard fronting the old Royal Palace Cathedral and the old museum at the Eastern end of Unter Den Linden. The decimated is Garrison was in its last throes of mos cow said. Most of its artillery was Cone and its hold on the Centre of the doomed capital was shrinking hourly. William lord Haw Haw Joyce broadcasting Over the North Ger Man radio said Adolf Hitler still was directing the defence of Berlin from an underground Citadel. But Ether Continental reports said Hitler either was dying or already dead. Front despatches published in Moscow said an epidemic of s rides Sweet German and nazi ranks As the red fought deeper into the capital. Scores were found dead by their own hand. In the North the first White rus Sian captured the Moabite District its turreted jail _ and leached the spree River within Point Blank Range of hitlers Reichs chancellery and the burned out Reich Stag. Some War prison ers of assorted nationalities were liberated at Moabite. Fourteen fac tories were captured. Temperature readings Low j-26 7.30 a.m., april 30. 10.30 a.m., april 30. 1.30 april 30. Dav last Vear. S thousands of vehicles tremendous quantities of arid equipment and Over prisoners have been captured and Many More Safe being corralled. Been torn to pieces Twenty five German divisions some of the Best in German have the military Power of Germany in Italy has practically ceased even though scattered fighting May Tine. As the remnants of the Ger Man armies Are mopping in Cap Turing Venice the _ British London april 30 British Cabinet late today re examined the peace situation amid its that an envoy was on the Way to Stockholm with Himmler a reaction to an Allied reiteration of unconditional surrender policy. Prime minister Churchill and his colleagues were closeted in a regu Lar meeting. Of the Cabinet and the authoritative press association said the peace position was fully dismissed. Military leaders attended the meeting As usual. Many responsible sources believed that u a capitulation i Uca a wet to Northwest. Italy. Fifth 111 i1uj.vil Vav kill. Al Taij. V forces raced northward 40 Miles from Genoa to capture Alessandria Halfway along the Highway from Genoa to Turin. That put them within 78 Miles of the French fron tier where French forces had crossed into Italy. The Only sign of German Resis Tance was at the Northern end of Lake Garda where the nazis were battling to keep open the Brenner pass. 80 Miles to the North. A com Munique described the resistance As fairly heavy but elsewhere the rout of the beaten nazi armies in North Italy Italy continued on Page .-7. Column 4 bulletins Zurich Switzerland april 30. Reuters reports reaching this City today from across the1 German Border said announce ment of the capitulation of Germany is expected tonight. London april 30. Commentator on. The radio the chief remaining voice of nazi Germany declared to night everybody knows that this War is drawing to an end. This is an irrevocable fact. With . 3rd in Ger Many april 30. Bup the american 3rd today liberated Allied prison ers from a German prison Camp North of Munich. Headquarters 21st group april 30. Dian first vanguards drove to within three Miles of the German naval base of Era Den today As resistance waned along most of Field marshal Montgomery s front. London april 30. The inaccurate Brussels radio this evening broadcast what it called an unconfirmed report that Himmler himself was in Stockholm conducting or seeking peace negotiations. Despatches said rumours sweep Europe with Germany tottering on the Brink of total collapse rumours of developments within the shaken country and her still occupied neighbors came thick and fast from Continental sources. All unconfirmed and Many of them conflicting they included Hitler is mad dying or already dead. Anti nazi partisans. Kidnapped foreign minister Joa Chim von Ribbentrop. Mutinied at the Baltic port of Rostock and Are engaged in fierce fighting with cd troops. Representative of or. Ernst Kaltenbrunne Himmler s Deputy for Bavaria and Austria is meeting with Swiss officials at Vaduz Capri Tal of Neutral Liechtenstein. The subject of the negotiations was not disclosed but May involve the sur Render of further portions of Ger Many or Austria. Army and. Nazi Lead ers in Denmark Are ready to capitulate and withdraw their troops. Quisling government in Norway resigned. Sees end in Sii Rbt London newspapers predicted the end of the european War was Only Days away. The London daily mail said it May end at any Thoutt. Much of the situation was expected to be clarified by or. In commons this week perhaps1 he tas Cabinet As usual yesterday. Count Berri adot the presumably gave Himmler. Gestapo chief Interior minister and possibly acting fuehrer of Germany the British american refusal to make a Separ ate peace with Germany at their by. The associated press purported meeting in Denmark Sun reports that Heinrich Himmler to Atic correspondent of Germany from russian hands had offered to surrender in the London times said that British conditionally to the United states and Britain raised false Hopes Himmler w _ _ to ______1____j . 1 1tv1 -3 new nazi capitulation offer were being forwarded it would be Himmler s agreement to unconditional surrender since week-end1 developments Evi Dently made it Manifest that the allies were interested in nothing less. Stockholm despatches said the intermediary count Folke Berna Cross Milan april 30. Broken body of Mussolini Lay unclaimed beside his Slair ing somewhere in Denmark. He f in the Milan morgue today dishonoured in. Death by the people he led to Empire Ana was to in Duce badly in the sight of the partisan executioners who killed him and his Paramour Clara Petacci in their hideout on Lake decades paid him their last tribute by hanging his remains head Down from the rafters of a gasoline Sta Tion in Milan s Loreto Square. There a night and Day they scenes reminiscent of the mass jubilation at the announcement 1 the stews which interrupted the meeting until announced that the statement was false and Thestill continuing. Orts arouse come conditionally of peace which swept the world during the week end. The Himmler reports published in both Britain and the United states said the Gestapo chief had assumed command in Germany be cause. Hitler was dying and had made his bid through a Stockholm private citizen. Prime minister Churchill took cognizance report by issuing a special state ment declaring that no surrender offer would be considered in lefts made jointly to the United states and Russia. Following publication of these developments in the United states senator Tom Connally chairman of the Senate for eign relations committee and vice chairman of the american world Security conference delegation in san Francisco authorized a state ment saturday night that Germany had surrendered and that he expected a formal announcement to by the co anally statement were blasted a Short time later when president Truman in checking with Geri. Eisenhower at Allied supreme Headquarters in Paris declared reports of a German surrender unfounded. The full sequence of events Lead ing up to the peace report and its denial was As follows saturday morning the new York times carried a despatch from a false report continued on Page 7. Column 2 say i on w envoy to Sweden Mussolini i a traitor s death continued on Page 7 column -3 free press give them when takes. Place. Reichsmarsi1at Goering. After careful consideration the following statement is issued the erstwhile chief of the almost alter Carei i new sprint. The non existent German air Force is no be to be issued rumours such As which circulated saturday night mors about the the a Are Likely to recur in the. Days to and our readers May wish to know what in View of the stringent shortage. Of newsprint the free press has decided it will serve its readers Best by not issuing any extra editions announcing the end of the War in Europe. Attention will be concentrated upon providing readers with the Best possible service in both news and comment in its regular. Editions at their regular hours. When the close of hostilities is announced the Only addition to our regular services will be radio broadcasts Krc by responsible members of the staff who will attempt As quickly As possible to Analyse the situation As it then Benito Mussolini whereabouts London april 30. From a welter of conflicting re ports Here Are the latest stories on the whereabouts of the leaders of dying nazism Adolf Hitler the germans error pictured Himmler As killed attempting to escape Berlin. The Only clue mentioned was a charred body in. A blasted motor vehicle. Propaganda minister Goebbels the loud and limping mouthpiece of nazism has Jen re mouthpiece of i Huaijun said he was in Berlin directing by a German controlled he Fence of that invested capital. The fled northward out defence of that invested capital. The report has been received with scepticism in Allied quarters. The heavy bombing of Berchtesgaden and his private chalet indicated an Allied belief that the fuehrer might be in the bavarian Mountain redoubt area. The free German press in a t through beyond doubt and May be dead. A German broadcast said he had resigned his Post because of an acute heart ailment. A captured German general said the portly marshal probably was executed. A Moscow report broached the possibility that Goering had fled to parts unknown carrying away in loot. Gestapo chief ii Immler his captured brother in Law said that As late As april 10 Himmler was m the Hartz mountains but escaped the advancing americans he was re ported to have made a peace Oiler to Britain and the United states. Excluding Russia. Some time ago Exun one report in All probability in source to Nave of Berlin but other German reports have said he was with Hitler in Berlin. He May already be in the bavarian redoubt. Field marshal Kesselring the latest clue to the whereabouts of the German commander m the South came from the Munich radio during what apparently was a Short lived revolt in that Birthplace of nazism. The radio broadcast a plea to the allies to bomb Gullach. Six Miles South of Munich where it said Kesselring had established head quarters. Franz von Fafeng the Gray Fox of nazi diplomacy is a captive of the americans As is Dittmar the mouthpiece of the Ger Man High Quisling govt. Quits new York april 30 ;