European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 6, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes Reich refugees Are estimated at 23 million by William Werner associated press correspondent than on third of the prewar population of the Are refugees inside their embattled according to information available through g5 civil affairs Section of before the beginning of the latest russian offensive an Esti mated of hitlers people were homeless or temporarily sheltered away from their Home this circumstance was a result of the Long hammering of German cities by Allied airmen in addition to the evacuation of towns and Vil Lages on the Western and Eastern figure vastly larger the figure is believed to have been swelled to 23 million since then by the mass flight of refugees in the path of the invading red the plight of these refugees is a German Allied plans for a military government in Germany after that nation sur renders make no provision for out Side Aid in the rehabilitation of industries or Allied Aid is for the liberated coun must help Allied governments vitally interested in the Rescue of displaced persons of no German nationality inside of whom were estimated to be at least without counting French russian and other Allied prisoners of French prisoners of War alone numbered in West an illustration the magnitude of the task of repatriating so Many millions is glimpsed in the figures covering what has been accomplished so far in the liberated countries in the so far the displaced persons Branch of the civil affairs Section of commanded by Stanley has supervised the evacuation of displaced persons from combat zones in the Netherlands and Luxembourg to emergency collection in addition there Are persons displaced during the Spanish civil War who Are presently in Southern plus poles who came to France before the War As and were there when the germans the enormous task handling refugees will be greatly enlarged if All of Germany swiftly under Allied the Gates will thus be opened and great streams of homesick human Ity will seek to Rush impatient of any plans for control of the situation have been several thousand Liaison officers from Allied armies will military govern ment detachments will funnel the exiles through centers inside Ger where displaced persons can be and fed while Liaison officers from their countries sort them big Little girl big Job with 82nd a of the 82nd a with a strength of 34 men and two guarded As Many As nazi prisoners at one time during the Holland and Normandy i at 13 years Pauline Sands yes that above is prob ably the youngest Trainer of Grey hound in the United her father has schooled her in the Art of training the animals for racing 14 get prison terms in thefts from trains russians Cross Oder 30 Miles from Berlin continued from Page 1 soviet troops ringing the City threw overwhelming forces at three de sense according to Moscow fighting in the Danzig area was in Progress for three communications towns on the Danziger Lin railway but thaw and rain appeared to have slowed the Tempo of the red Advance there was no news of Zhukov thrust toward Stettin in last nights Moscow Berlin Alert for cd Utiss 5 swedish reports said today that the German High command has ordered All Berlin on the Alert against possible Allied attempts to land paratroopers in the refugee packed terror and confusion were reportedly mounting hourly As the reds approached and nazi leaders themselves tacitly admitted Ber Lins desperate plight by clamping a news blackout on the City and forbidding civilian refugees to leave without special a trickle of news was still seeping through to Stockholm and these accounts indicated berliners Are beginning to crack under threat of the russian invasion of the City and the grim reality of Anglo american swedish sources estimated berlins casualties in saturdays great Amer ican raid at to civilian refugees and eastbound troops were said to be hopelessly jammed at the cites main Railroad and swedish account said that German army deserters and foreign workers Are terrorizing parts of the perfect timing was major Factor in raid on Berlin 5 split second prediction of weather conditions made possible Satur Days plane raid on the heart of it was officially disclosed the Success of the entire opera Tion was threatened by the prediction that rain and poor visibility would close in on american air Fields in England in the afternoon and that a weather front of impenetrable Clouds would be Over Berlin until a air Force had just time to reach Berlin after the Cloud front had passed and return to their bases before they were closed in by bad a miscalculation in the timing first division co half of Manila is free Light resistance met continued from Page 1 Gen Macarthur from entering the City with one of the first Spear he turned Back to find another the japanese in the Southern Section of Manila were destroying installations there and perhaps pre paring for a Las ditch these enemy troops faced a new from the Para troopers of the 511th Lith airborne landed on tag Aytay 32 Miles Southwest of a Clift Andrus commands the first now fighting in the Siegfried in the swiftest sessions since the opening of the train looting two Paris courts martial yesterday heard guilty pleas from 14 pm and sentenced to prison terms ranging from five to ten the from the 716th and 724th admitted wrong fully disposing of army and asked for and an other Chance to serve As trial of the second officer involved in the investigation is scheduled to open French expect de Gaulle to share in big i free 1 Alks continued from Page of the Rhine from one end to the these which have the tacit approval of great Britain and the soviet evoked great sym Pathy from Harry presi Dent Roosevelt Aid in his conversation with de Gaulle and for Georges Bidault Dur ing his recent visit according to French Hopkins brought no news on the possibility of a Roosevelt but these officials pointed out that Roosevelt already has accepted a de Gaulle invitation i with Only the Date and Circum stances left if de Gaulle attends part of the big conference he will bring the president Back with him for franc american the officials As the Paris press carried Only Small portions of the address by under Secretary of state Joseph grew and withheld comment on his a French foreign ministry spokesman expressed gratitude for Grews outline of the sufferings of France already has americas promises of 26 ships for the first Quarter of said the spokes we know she wants to Send More she knows we want More but the question is How much she is Able to Send under present speculative reports from through out the world yesterday had in com Mon the belief that the big three was already in they differed Only As to according to a report from Lon president prime minister Churchill and marshal Stalin Are meeting either in Ruma Nia or in a russian port on the Black a German news Agency dub claimed that the discussions Are taking place aboard a Man but did not say a United press dispatch from Istanbul cited rumours among Diplo Mati circles there that the big three meeting was being held in of the bombers or of forecasting the Speed of the two weather fronts could have spelled occupation of termed Likely 5 Allied occupation air Force is expected to be among the key items in plans for the postwar control of it is believed in such a Force would be set up on a More or less permanent basis and would consist mainly of fight ers and fighter bombers based at strategic Points throughout the the bulk of the planes and pilots apparently would be supplied by America and fast planes would be Able to reach any part of Germany within a few the occupation Force might be set up As part of an International peace patrol plan such As that recently submitted to Congress by Karl Mundt Mundt believes such a Force should be manned by volunteers from the present flying understanding of China called postwar need 5 in the next 25 years will be the big unknown in world in the same Way in which Russia has been in the last 25 Owen former advisor to Chiang said director of the Page school of International relations of Johns Hopkins appearing in a asserted the problem will be How to get together with China and know what she is so that we Are not caught As we were before this lacking a real understanding of Russia and what she was trying to Siegfried line cracked again continued from Page 1 defences on the shores of urfa fifth armoured and 78th forces captured Strouch and Steck both within two Miles of the the northernmost Lake formed by the urfa River Jones men of the 78th advanced farther into the Hurtgen Forest the main Mon Scha Duren he ninth troops on the South shores of the urfa stauske or urfa Lake Reservoir put a patrol across the Uritta Sperre dam and fired at germans on the far Jones other ninth elements pushed Yards toward the urfa which flows into the Roer from the second were hit by a counterattack after their patrols entered Hellenthal in this sector and found the town earlier reports said first army troops penetrated a tight Island of defences near this town is Northwest of in the Lake District where ninth elements reached a portion of Eastern Siegfried Belt defences along the South Shore of the urfa the East Belt in this area was described As ranging in depth from a Quarter of a mile to a mile and entry into Manila is hailed by Roosevelt 5 the american entry info Manila was hailed by president Roosevelt in a message which he sent to Sergio presi Dent of the let the japanese and other enemies of peaceful nations take warning from the great events in your Roose velt their world of trea aggression and enslave ment cannot survive in a struggle against our world Freedom and the president also told Osmena the american people rejoice with me in the liberation of your four divisions on move elements of the four first army second and ninth and 82nd airborne slugged through the Western Belt along a 12mile arc East of from in the North to Ude Breth in the North of this four division push into the 78th forces in the Kester Nich sector captured three fourths of a mile from the Roer in a Yard and pushed on the remaining distance to the West Bank of the there seized High ground which gave then control of the Pau Lus Hoffen one of the water works in the Complex system of lakes and Reservoir sin this to the ninth 47th gained control of the Uritta Sperre dam to Gam control of the Southern Bank of the urfa which is formed by the urfa close up to line advancing into the Schnee Eifel Highlands from the ardennes re third army forces were meet ing Small arms and mortar fire As they closed up to the Siegfried de lenses South of first army Pene in the area of Schleiden and Gemund the communications Cen ters first army is the ground is fairly High and eastward and it be comes flatter near Euskirchen and Zupich and Levels out toward Bonn to permit armoured Brenner pass bombings Cut nazis Italy supplies Allied 5 Reu Ira com Mander of the Mediterranean Allied air today said that All out bombing of Kesselring life line across the Brenner pass had reduced the flow of supplies from Germany to to and caught the enemy by sur the Ridge commands a of highways leading to Manila Back soon after the Para troopers had they were Only 18 Miles from the behind them were other american forces taking the same route to the Liberator bombers struck again at the Corregidor fortress and the Cavite naval other liberators flew to Formosa and attacked an freed civilians wild with Joy continued from Page 1 by members of the first was forecast in a dramatic manner on five american aircraft droned Over the University grounds one swooped Low and dropped pair of goggles to which a note was unseen by the an Amer James picked it up and it read Roll out the we will be Here sunday or Mon the pilots 24hour estimate was too she for about that night the internees heard american tanks rumbling Down Rizal asked Safe conduct thirty minutes a tank a 75mm gun faced the bolted door of the University turned open roared the yank tank no hand appeared to slip the open the Goddam thing or i am coming the commander shouted still no response go on the commander in a Low but dont shoot unless you have and be sure there with that the big tank crashed on an upper floor of one build while the freed internees deliriously poured on to the the Jap prison commandant offered to surrender the prison in return for a Safe conduct Tell him nothing the yank officer told and 111 give him ten when the Jap commandant stood his toe yanks scanned into the building and a Roo to room fight no prisoners or american troops were although several about 270 hostages hew by the japs were planes from carriers hit japs at palembang seac Headquarters announced yesterday that Carrier planes of powerful British East Indian naval task Force had struck two ii ave blows against japanese Oil in Southern British naval observers the on have deprived of approximately 75 percent of i aviation fuel