European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 15, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                March 1945 the stars and stripes Page nazis Shell own after yanks City it Pacific storm tosses around destroyer bad Godesberg the March 14 Oft Citron which the yanks refused to fire because of its hospitals s strafed and bobbed by the Ger americans approached bad which was the scene of the Hitler Chamberlain Premusich a delegation of the towns led by the Swiss went out to a nearby Hill to surrender formally and ask them not to Shell the town because of its hospitals and but now that the germans have been driven to the other Side of the Rhine their artillery and planes Are razing the City with Complete dlr regard for the thousands of Ger Man citizens who have Refuge until it came under fire the bad Godesberg was one of the few captured German towns which was practically touched by it was Here that Chamberlain conferred a septem with Hitler and von rib but today bad Godesberg is far different from the flambe decked City it was during the Days of the conference which paved the Way for peace in our the hotel where they met is blacked out a Skeleton stall remains with the a targe whose brother Fritz was one of hitlers closest the hotel staff no longer dares go into the front of the Lor a few Yards away on the Rhine s East Bank the nazis Are every time they see a figure they let Loose Wiki a burst of Small arms usually followed by the resounding whack of belgian loggers victimizing yanks with fake Cognac March 14 of an epidemic of liquor poisoning among american idlers Havern North to Light a German lays Rhine Boner to saboteurs John Mcdermott United press Remagen 14 a German Engineer asserted today that wires leading to the dynamite planted to blow up the Ludendorff railway Bridge when the americans neared the Rhine were Cut by German the captured a sergeant in a also said he had been informed that a Ger Man Captain in charge of blowing the Bridge committed suicide rather than face the nazi leaders after men of the first army seized the trestle intact and established their Bridgehead across the found wires Cut the Bridge was to have been blown in he when Only two explosive went a company of engineers was sent to they re turned in a few saying the wires were Cut and they had been unable to find the the who had planted some charges during their recon returned to the Bridge about 5 pm with additional Dyna but they found the Span in american ninth div Forward elements had thirty three members of the Engineer outfit which was supposed to blow the Bridge were captured while fighting As infantrymen a a mile South of belgian Bootleg run by peasants in the tradition of Amer ican prohibition the Hooch is under filthy conditions with sugar beets and methylated spirits and in at least one instance was fermented with a number of soldiers have been downed by so called Cognac in the tongues Selling the faked Brandy to Amer ican troops As much As 600 francs a the bootleggers Are evading Legal control of ingredients and the High tax on British plan new callup for War against Japan March 14 minister sir James Grigg told com Mons yesterday that there would be a new Ica up of men when Ger Many is Defeated to carry on the War against the new Call up he said will include some men now in reserved so 4 that Meri with Long periods of ser i vice overseas could be these ships arc t the Biff warships of the storm in the at War is an undersea struggle for submarine soldiers with Supply they Call these gis who so beneath the sea in the 13 divers and six divers tenders of the Ana Cost up have spent More than hours under of european harbours since they arnved on the continent they started out reconstructing the Cherbourg docks and have since Bew work info on other Harbor their work underwater Battlefield strewn with such hazards Booby twisted wrecked cranes and other the divers tenders have been pressed into service times on Rush one of Woodrow of bar spent 54 hours in the it erection of Dary Jones Inar Mineto become citizens about foreign born soldiers have become american citizens while serving in the Eto adjutant disclosed poles and mexicans Are among those but Al most All nationalities Are re a naturalization com posed of a representative of the immigration and naturalization service and three enlisted is now with first army it moves on to a new division every few following the men in under a new Law citizenship is available to any Soldier who entered the prior to whether through a port of entry or smuggled across the old roman Walls at Cologne stand in midst of ruins March 14 towers of ancient roman Walls in this Rhineland City withstood modern blockbusting bombs though such celebrated landmarks As the City Guerzenich the Arch episcopal Palace and Seminary and Templar Lodge were wiped out James of new York who Heads the Fine arts and historical monuments Section of Allied military governments Cologne detachment says the Price less paintings formerly hanging in the Cathedral and museum have either been taken East of the Rhine or deposited in Bombproof vaults valuable libraries were including the archives of the Cologne the Cathedral Library and the Library 01 the High school for however the City archives Are intact and the University Library is Safe its and the Rhine looks Tike Ohio to nostalgic yanks by Ernest Leiser stars and stripes stall writer v the Ohio River Valley Back Over there is Covington just 3 of his Morta Menashe tried out one or the new k Only Speed concerns him a jeep barrel Down the was carrying Cane 35jerry sloped Long pfc James of Etc Riverside he to the quiet on the Western front hey Tilo honors Eaker the new Jugoslav Telegraph Agency reported Jibae during a recent visit to sin Ira Eaker a of com was decorated a Marsha Titos suggestion with the order of the partisan first Rhine quiet on the Western front hey fascist ouster March 14 up Ivanoe Boromis government to Day decreed tha ouster of All Public officials who held jobs during the fascist even if they were not members or the fascist