Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 3, 1945, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final edition Sun rises 6.02 Sun sets 20.49. Moon rises. 2.07 Moon sets 10.20. Warmer. Winnipeg 3, 1945 vol. Pages. A a Berlin and Hamburg surrender two German officials in civilian clothes at the left get the unconditional sur Render offer from British Lieut general w. D. Morgan shown fourth from the right hands so wuss Roval Palace at Caserta As he signs documents celebrate by purchasing Mineweather even More Bonds is plea celebrate Victory in Europe by investing in Canada s future Victory Bonds and help buy the in period of rehabilitation and reconstruction officials of the National War finance committee. Manitoba division urged thursday they reported that the provinces total at the half Way Mark in the 8th Canadian Victory loan Campaign stands at which is 4o.a per cent of the objective. Waight interviewed surgeon Lieut. Don Whitley. Of Winnipeg who in . Prince Robert or Cen o e o. Winnipeg civic subscriptions totalling 51.250000 were announced thursday by mayor Garnet Coulter fund greater Winnipeg water fund funds of the City s Hydro electric Utility represent a substantial por Tion of the subscriptions of the Winnipeg sinking fund and employees pension fund. Larse subscriptions re tuesday. Were Western paint b. I Harris company limited the Winnipeg Weidman Brothers limited tees and Persse mid West paper. Sales atoned. Stir views sur Jeon at the noon ceremony George european operations. Ratings Victory loan continued on Page 6. Column 4 a nazis flee British take Churchill is rumoured negotiating in Europe it i of Cje Manv were believed in great port Paris May 3. The British 2nd army captured Hamburg and one half million thoroughly beaten nazi troops Oday. The remnants of Ger Many s Northern armies fled for Denmark and Norway by. Land and sea under a terrible rain of bombs and Aerial gunfire. Organized German resistance in he North and in fact All. Across he european was away at an incredible Steed in the Wake of the unconditional surrender of Northern Italy and Western Austria with their Gar sons of almost men. British troops fanned North West of Hamburg within 15. Miles of the Cuxhaven naval base Ana struck North toward the danish Frontier swedish reports said they crossed the Kiel canal and reached Eckern Woerde 14 Miles North of the Kiel naval Yards and Only m Miles from the danish Border. The disintegration of the German no Thern armies was emphasized by the appearance of numerous their forces Pecan eve army troops in the South swept up another 000 prisoners along the Western flank of the bavarian redoubt and final ready concluded. Churchill was absent from the House of commons today. Sir John for him told the Bouse that should the War end on saturday or sunday there would be a general Holiday Mon Unity to surrender 56 american seventh us third army in s to Arm assault on the nazi stronghold at Moscow reports said Patton s men were Only in mles North about 30 Miles closer than the seventh army after capturing hitlers native City of Brunau third army men also were cios on the austrian City o Hamburg continued on Page 6. Column 5 canadians get into Oldenburg War in Europe. The engaged in a similar task. The unconditional surrender of All German forces in Holland Den Mark Norway and Czechoslovakia was and reported possibly under negotiation some cases Al free press Krc be plans made Urchin s a Bow it was on the can diary army s Leer front Southeast fighting was most non existent no charging fanatics shouted Heil Doenitz Only a few shells lobbed into a Allim of the surrender of enemy forces in Northern Italy and. Western Austria. Others in Ynot identified in the Royal Palace at Caserto near Naples. Standing from left Are . J. G. Anera if of to commander of . Naval forces in North african Waters air vice marshal g. B a Baket chief of stiff to Deputy air com Mediterranean major general Sla ass fess a of staff. Allied Force Headquarters. Urc has lasted for to Days North of Leer 14 Miles Southeast of Emden. Should riot be Aken As indicative the enemy has picked up but the canucks who the come to expect a Tough scrap t every Corner Are daring to Hope they have at last knocked e fight out of the germans. The Advance towards Emden and canadians continued on Page 8. Column 5 Poland deadlock reported broken san Francisco May 3. Bup the big reported today to have broken the deadlock in negotiations Over the polish quest on the report raised new Hopes for settlement of most explosive Issue connected with the United tempera tube readings Low Durine the nil rat. 7.30 ajn., May 3rd 10.30 ajn., May 3rd 1.30 pjn., May 3rd this Day last year Fine weather prevails throughout Western. Canada the thursday noon. Weatherman sad. Ursa it. Will continue for at least 36" hours in Mani Toba becoming a Little warmer Friday. _ How totals stand official provincial minimum objective total to Dominion objective total to mpg citizens concerns total i since reported still needed percentage of official per cent. Objective previous total. Since reported total to Date buyers still needed minimum provincial objective of str. Mpg. Citizens other than str. Mpg. Citizens provincial total Bydo am aeon with the 1st Canadian army May Ftp brigadier looked p from his lunch and laughingly rebuked his senior artillery officer. The he ked be the matter Are you angry or something ear you fired some rounds this Day. Continental reports of surrender negotiations created a feeling in diplomatic and political quarters Here that the hour of Victory was d Churchill s latest it Iblis appear Ance Here was wednesday eve Ning. He sent word that he could not attend today s session a highly unusual procedure. The last four major pockets of nazi resistance outside the Reich were reported near collapse. Some sources believed the capitulation of some or All of them might be announced by Nightfall. Doenitz Hunting for a Cong a following the nazi announce ment of Hitler s death and the fall of Hamburg the new fuehrer Admiral Doenitz apparently was wandering the Northland in search of a new Refuge. The press association said it was fairly certain that he was in Denmark or per haps had even gone to Norway. The Paris radio said that the foreign minister of major quis Ling s puppet government of nor Way had arrived in Copenhagen to discuss the surrender of per haps German troops in a broadcast by the Hamburg radio in the last hours it was controlled by the nazis indicated that surrender arrangements for be czechoslovak redoubt around Rague were in Progress. Prague said to be open a broadcast decree by Ham org purported to declare Prague Hospital an pen City not to be defended. It Aid negotiations for the Reorg peace moves continued on Page 8. Column 4 announcement your suggested London May 3. Cup while no official indication has been Given of the actual moment which will be chosen for announcing the end of the european War it is widely believed in London that the historic declaration it comes will be made at 9 ., London time c2 The announcement which no doubt will be made simultaneously in London Washington and Moscow., would reach the greatest possible number of people in the three major Allied nations at that time As far As Britain is concerned it would hit the famous "9 o clock which is the largest listening audience of any of the . S Domestic news Broad once the giant Siren on the roof of the free press building rings out its message of Victory in Europe All the facilities of the free press and radio station Krc will swing nto action to bring Manitoban the jest and latest coverage of local and reign developments. Officials of the newspaper and the radio station have completed their plans for be Day operation and announced them wednesday. High rights of the co operative press radio coverage will be frequent broadcasts members of the free press editorial staff who will interpret and Analyse last minute developments for local listeners. Krc will of course also Broad cast the Victory message which Kins George has announced he will make shortly after the first Flash. Announcements from president tru Man. Prime minister King and prime minister Churchill will be other highlights which the station the Krc Mobile press is in formed that the polish discussions which had been stymied forays were moving Forward the basis of a new proposal from the Nasals to incorporate Mikolajczyk and three of his ranking lieutenants in the new polish government were vie old Here As a Victory for British and american diplomacy. San Francisco May 3. Yield marshal Jan Christian Smuts Prate master of South Africa pro posed today that armed Force Shal not be used Fino no nations except in the common interest. Smuts Leader of South african delegation Sug estion in his draft of Ken of Faith which he uras a preamble to the _ charter of thl United nations. It will be. Introduced into . 1 either by Smuts or by Harry t Andrews head of the South african Supply Mission in Washington and to Africa a a Jiember of. The delegation. May take new Alexander May As supreme in re turn to the British control Gourami Chiton of Gerna myi Ascriptions of How Winni Eggers Are taking the news. The Highl hts o the thanksgiving service m front of the legislative building will be Given air time As will instructions As to How citizens May take part in this and other services. Krc s own news services will be supplemented by reports from the free press correspondents in Europe Washington and Ottawa As soon As they Are received in the newsroom in addition cables from other sex elusive free press services will be rushed on the air to fill out the. On. Unit will tour Winnipeg streets and bring to listeners on the spot de Stalin tells 3f Victory London May 3. A the nazi capital and fourth Argest City of the world sur entered yesterday to troops of to russian armies and f the City s defenders gave up he fight which had raged for 2 deadly Days through streets and subways. The City fell at To troops of the 1st White russian and 1st ukrainian armies Premier marshal Stalin announced in an order of the Day. He disposed also that russian forces bad destroyed the German 9tli army trapped South ast of Berlin killing men and capturing 120.000, and had overrun the last of Germany s big 3altic ports Rostock and Warne Rusno. On plan to Deal with the problem which be Day will bring. Fighting in West Holland May be All Over now it seems a fair presumption that the last shot has been on the Canadian sector in Western Holland. That in t official and i am not quoting any military spokesman. But is is an opinion which happens of be shared by Many correspondents Here and i heard the same View expressed this afternoon b dutchmen who had crossed the lines from occupied Here is the line of reasoning. With the third Reich in its death throes. Firing has temporarily died away on a sector of this front we Are ?hiddin2 food into occupied Holland because this is an army of Hera Tion and it seems rather futile to liberate the dead. From present m Rii rations this movement May last some time. But events Are racing so fast tonight that no Man car Ven have been made. The germans know dead and they know also that their cause is lost. If Maurice Western continued on page_6._column 2. Diamond robbery Cleveland. May 3. Cap two robbers bound and gagged a new York Diamond merchant in a hotel room last night and escaped with uncut stones valued by the victim at for bulletins London May 3. Cup a Kalun Borg. Denmark radio said today in a broadcast Pur ported to be in the name of the German government that grand Admiral Karl Doenitz. The new nazi fuehrer will not Lay Down arms. A speaker identified As Albert Speer. Nazi minister of arms and munitions made the Kal Undberg broadcast and said he was speaking in the name of the government. London May 3. Bup a bbl front reporter broadcast ing Over the army radio said 1 today that a general surren Der of the German forces facing it Ger. Sir Miles c. Demp sey s British second army May come at any moment. London May 3. Up marshal Stalin announced 1o night. That British and soviet troops had effected a Junction on a 60-mile front from the Baltic to Wittenberg. London May 3. A a Stockholm despatch reported today that Admiral Doenitz new Leader of crumbling Ger Many and his foreign minister count Ludwig Schwerin Vonkrosigk were at Kiel with British rooms Only 35 Miles away. London Mav 3. Approximation based on official announcements and news reports indicates that to Date the Allied armies on both the Eastern and Western fronts have occupied roughly Square Miles of Germany proper leaving 538 Square Miles still in German hands. In Moscow the fall of Berlin was celebrated with an official Fiat Joe of 24 salves from 324 Cannon. The Ong awaited Victory of russians in the streets with danc no. Shouting and general hilarity. Moscow despatches said belief was evident everywhere in the capital hat the end of the War could be at 3hy Lime. W Down their arms where Soosu slip ing prussians formerly paraded in rth Eph ush of death Lay Over the smoking broken capital broken Only by occasional explosions in he ruins. Furl her to Norma. Well known soviet commen Tator Nikolai declared in Prada that Hitler is not m whether he fled to. Devow Respo rident Jacob macai Enko. As ironical As it was symbolic he said was the fact that the actual surrender took place at the tier Garten Berlin s once Beauty i Centra Park Between Victory Berlin continued on Page 6. Column 5 no liquor stores open on be Day immediately the proclamation of be Day is received marking the end of the european phase of the second world War All government i Fluor stores and All Beer Parlours no Manitoba will be close they will remain closed the following Day. Announcement to. This of acct was made thursday by w. R. Clubb. Chairman the liquor commission if be Day should be proclaimed Durine office hours at the Legisla Uve building All office work will be suspended immediately and the building vacated by the provincial government buildings closed the following and government cars will of removed from the legislative building grounds so that platform Public address systems and decorations May to erected within two hours of the proclamation of be Day for joining in the general Cele bration. Instructions have been issued by Hon. E. F. Willis mini Ster of Public works. Mme. Petain arrested London. May 3. Madame Eugenie Petain g3-year-old wife of marshal Henri Philippe Petain has been arrested on a charge of col Lusion with the enemy the French press Agency said last night. She had returned to Francis from Ger Many with her husband who faces trial on treason him Tyler is slain Dittmar believes 12th army group Headquarters May 3. Gen. Kurt Dittmar former German High command commentator said today that he believed Himmler May have been Assassin ated for the stupid Way he handled peace negotiations. Himmler s whereabouts s sil2ce__h with count Folke Berna Dotte on surrender terms at Lue Beck on april 24 have been a mys Tery. Dittmar said the Gestapo axe Man had joined Goebbels and Goering in death. Dittmar who spoke voluntarily and freely to Allied officers Here said he accepted the German re port of Hitler s death As a fact. It is not important whether he committed suicide or was killed Dittmar said. The German general who sur Ren dered at Magdeburg last week smoked a Cigar As he talked. W the him was his Pale frightened 16 edit Taar Taid he believed the Rise of Doenitz would Speed peace negotiations and the people and Ger Man officers will follow he takes in negotiating peace. He described the new fuehrer As a realist open Frank decent and politically moderate. He seemed surprised that pro claimed his intention to fight on and could t understand How Doe Nitz was going to sue for peace that Way but he said emphatically that germans would not support any fight to the death while they would go All the Way on peace negotiations. He was Dittmar said that 90 cent of German officers considered Himmler the Gravedigger ol.1 German army. He described Himmler handling of the peace negotiations As like a cavalry Char fee. In the first place he acted on his own i Dittmar said. When Hitler was dead or no longer in command of the situation Himmler tried to keep Power. On the Post War Fate of Germany Dittmar said he believed the Ger Man officer corps was Best because res a 5reat Affinity Between communism and National socialism i believe communism has Good Chance in he said. About his own late Jolt May said. I always have a position in make my own decisions but now x Arr the object ;