HUNTINGDON, PA
MONDAY, APRIL 23, INS.
NAZI
DEFENSES OF
BAVARIA
CRUMBLE
IN
PATH OF ALLIES
By BOYD D. LEWIS
United Press Correspondent
Paris, April 23. —• American and
French armies exploded a grand-scale offensive into Nazidom's last retreat in
the Bavarian Alps today amid persistent reports that
other Yank and Russian columns
had i'used the eastern and western fronts with a juncture below Berlin.
The boasted Nazi defenses of
Bavaria fell apart like a house of cards early today when Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's
rampaging Third Army turned up suddenly in the
Danube Valley 125 miles from
Butchersgaden. After an elaborate feint towards Chemnitz that caught the Nazis
flatfooted.
REPORT
YANKEES,
REDS
HAVE LINKED
UP
ON ELBE RIVER
By
ROBERT MUSEI,
United Press Correspondent
London, April 23.—Russian armored
spearheads reported probing into the heart of Berlin from threedirections
today, clanking along Unter Ben Linden and other famous streets within one to
four miles of Potsdamer Plats.
The German radio said Adolf
Hitler was in personal command of the defense of Berlin. The Red Army had driven
10 miles deep into the enemy capital and held
possession of a fourth of it.
A dispatch from Germany through
Switzerland said "the battle of Berlin is practically over" and
United Press report from Moscow
said the plight of Berlin was becoming- graver by the hour.
The German radio said Hitler had
thrown into the capital's defense "all the military poweravailable to
Germany."Even women were fighting in the front line, the broadcast said.
Should Berlin and Prague be lost,
it added, all Europe was doomed.
The Soviet breakthrough to the heart
of Berlin was reported by the neutral Swiss radio and Swedish correspondents
filing their first uncensored dispatches of the war from the Nazi capital.
They said Russian tanks
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BULLETIN
London.
April 23.—The Moscow radio reported late today that Marshal Stalin had announced
an advance d to 57 to 62 miles in the Red Army offensive which broke into
Berlin and captured the great Oder bastion
of Frankfurt.
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smashed 10 miles into Berlin from
the eastern and northeastern limits and were rolling with blazing guns along
Unter Den Linden, the treelined boulevard where Hitler once held victory
parades.
U.S.
SOLDIERS MAKE
GERMANS
DISINTER
BODIES
OF VICTIMS
By ROBERT
VlEKMILHOX
United Press Correspondent
Gardelegen, Germany, April 23---
American soldiers stood guard today
while healthy, prosperous Nazi members dug- up with their bare hands the
hastily-buried bodies of 500 of their former prisoners.
There were the bodies of anti-Nazi
Frenchmen, Belgians, Russians, poles and Dutchmen who were burned to death and
shot a few hours before the Americans took this town. Then they were dumped
hurriedly into make-shift graves.
A great majority . of--the townspeople
are Nazi party member.
Most are prosperous merchants.
The town looks like any other German town — clean streets, clean homes, clean
people with rosy, plump cheeks. But they could not have failed to note when SS
troops aided by
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U.S.
AIRMEN BLAST
126
JAP PLANES, 6
SHIPS
IN TWO DAYS
By
FRANK TREMAINE
United
Press Correspondent
Guam, April 23.—American aeral
forces wrecked 126 Japanese planes and six ships in two-days of battles along
an 850-mile front from Japan to the southern
Ryukyus.
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
announced the heavy toll of Japanese aircraft today. He also revealed that U.
S. Marines had landed on two more inlands off Okinawa and disclosed that Army
troops had killed 11,738 Japanese and captured 27 on southern Okinawa.
The
Japanese planes, of which 105 were destroyed, were accounted for by Mustang-
fighters from Iwo and carrier planes from the U. S. task force in the Ryukyus.
In addition a large force o B-29 Superfortresses from the Marianas may have
destroyed many others in a raid on Kyushu airfields.
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