European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 26, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stabs and strikes congressional probes of German atrocities meet with Eisenhower by Charles Kiley and stripes baft writer supreme Forward april Penman fibres signal party which was flown from Washington to accept in mesters invitation to see firsthand evidence of nazi arrived today the supreme commanders for the party of legislators included four senators and six members of Btij House of shortly after then arrival in Paris they were flown to Germany where Uliey inspected the Buchenwald last night the congressional As allies reached the Gateway to the to Border guard intensified by swedes Gen Nafts As Well As foreign slave workers and political were fleeing hitlers tottering Reich yesterday As Europe Neutral coun tries increased Border vigils in an apparent attempt to prevent the escape of War criminals i several gateways were left i alone the Swiss Frontier for Large columns of refugees streaming from Germany into Neutral which officially barred All mail service to arid from Swiss authorities were exerting new controls in an Effort to carry oat their governments Promise that no War would be allowed to Border patrols strengthened in com mandarin chief of the swedish after consulting with governmental that certain measures would be taken in View of an expected increase of refugees from the South and West the nature of the measures was but it was said that Border and coastal guards would be the Stockholm of to bladet said that a new class of military service would be called up mean in it was reported that the norwegian government in exile was pressing anew for Sweden in Clearing Norway of the Small duchy of in also was reported to be preparing for a Stream of refugees from voral where approximately prominent nazis and their fam Dies were said to be the duchy several military classes to guard its Frontier and to screen the Mussolini reported at Border indications the increased vigilance maintained Swiss order Ewanis was seen in reports from the nations a London news chronicle correspondent reported that Benito Mussolini and his arrived at the Swiss Border from Northern Italy with Spanish but were turned visitors were guests of Omar in Bradley at his 12th army group has in it conference with Eisenhower today the party expressed the Hope of visiting More concentration and prisoner of War Eisenhower informed the legislators that they would be Given every possible Chance to see see bombing results ithe congressional group included Alben Barkley Lenneth l Wherry Wayland Brooks Leverett Satori Tail Ewing Thomason James Richards Izac to James Mott John Vorys and Dewey seas Walter George and Elbert Thomas Dutah were scheduled to accompany the but did not make the before arriving at Eisenhower the legislators were Over Duren and other cities in Germany to see the result of Allied they trere met at an Airfield near Here by it Walter chief and taken to the supreme commanders Headquarters where they conferred with Eisenhower for More than an Eisenhower told the group he had invited As Well As of publishers and editors to in Spect the concentration and Pri Soner of War Camps so that they could give America a firsthand report of what had actually taken place behind the barbed wire enclosures in l you a Row Only one Camp yester Day the supreme commander told the there Are Many 3four i be extend into a great Field and informing the people at Home Lof things like these atrocities is Lone of nothing is covered Eisen Hower we have nothing to the treatment these people received in German concentration Camps is almost in i want you to see for yourself reset is Attadi photo a tank of a South african unit entering whose fall to the fifth and eighth armies cracked the defences of the French see return move to split people Adolf Hitler approved marshal Henri Philippe stains return to face a treason charge in Paris in an Effort to split the French people on the eve of a Victory in it was generally believed in French governmental circles French minister of Justice Francois die officially denied reports that the France during the Ger Skoda hammered by i 8th of heavies l j and be the spokesmen to the United Leader Man occupation had crossed the Swiss Frontier into he declared that negotiations were in Progress with the Swiss government and the French would decide the time and place the 89yearold marshal and his party might Cross the the Man who once occupied Frances highest office and held its supreme military rank will be placed under arrest when he Steps on French soil the minister it was reported Petain probably would arrive in Paris thursday night and be held at a prison near the French Nad prepared to try Petain by proxy on May the trial Mas postponed indefinitely last while warrants for members of retains party were obtained by the French Louis Secretary of the Navy and colonies under was among those with almost a unanimous Paris newspapers yesterday demanded death for the marshal when he stands trial for High the announcement of Nis impending return obscured the War news and in thousands of words of editorial comment there was hardly a phrase written i his de Gaulle National election soon As possible russians sir Ionno Berlin continued from Page 1 were fighting in the suburbs of the moravian arms City of still other soviet forces crossed the Elbe Northwest of Dresden and occupied the town of Only 24 Miles East of american held As Zhukov and Koniaev Cut off Berlin from outside Aid and pre vented the flight of the capital s trapped in the soviet tanks and infantrymen were Little More than a mile from Unter Den radio said More than half the total area of greater Berlin had been according to nazi Hitler still was in the which frontline reports described As a blazing Hulk of smashed the russians were Saia to of engaged in de slow process of splitting up remaining German defenders into Small after shattering the main enemy defense line along the cites South and East once this was the russians would make a final sweep through the City to Foin up in the West with forces now making out flanking Moscow reports suburbs East and South of the capital were in russian but in the inner City furious Al ghz the a soviet communique said the red army had severed the Ham Burg Berlin trunk railway and had the Berli Hanover railway under artillery Moscow said thai in the Eastern and Southern sections of the City the germans were throw ing into Battless technical and Engineer units As Well As Hur Riedl formed Volks Sturm not a single building is left stand ing in the Central part of Berlin land the whole area around Unter Den and the tie Garten has been Puli veried by russian a Stockholm correspondent silesian Southwest of Unter Den i soviet v i while the world awaited official announcement that yank and rett forces had linked up Elbe and Mulde thedger mans admitted that Koniaev Nad reached the Elbe of a president of the French provisional in a radio talk last night promised that sundays municipal elections will be followed As soon As possible after the end of hostilities with a National when the War prisoners and forced labourers have returned and most of the soldiers have been de Gaulle said the nation win go to the polls to vote for fee leaders of the fourth although warning that the Battle for betterment will Jeas difficult As the Battles at the de Gaulle declared that conditions Are already improving and cited Progress made in com Merce and agriculture fourth Star approved for Patton and Hodges april 25 cans Senate military committee yesterday approved promotions k temporary rank of for it George or and court Ney commander of first the huge armament works at was at tacked yesterday by More than 550 eighth of heavies two hours after slave labourers in the factory were warned by Eisenhower to Hee to sixteen heavies and three of the 00 escorting fighters were reported american airmen reported cavy flak and Bittor opposition rom Jet propelled in a second operation More than 50 eighth hammered our railway targets near Berchtey airfields hit British Jet propelled aircraft at asked German airfields at Nord at the Mouth of the Elbe smashing grounded planes and nearby rail ninth of fighter bombers ahead of the third attacking five three air Fields and Road traffic deep in the Danube Valley and Over a wide area Between Munich French and american medium bombers of the first tap flew More than 500 attacking ammo dumps at Schwab Munster and South of 12th fighters pounded Aird Romes in the Munich Augsburg area and marshalling Yards at pilots reported 183 nazi planes destroyed and 93 damaged on the italian continued Tram Page la Lombardy and Venetia provinces from the Bridgehead Between Fer Rara and Borg Forte included Man Padua and rail terminus at the foot of the 1s 25 Miles beyond the first major Force across the was the tenth Mountain which covered a flesh two Days and remarkably enemy fire at Page Only a few pockets of resistance irs the the announcement was made a supreme Headquarters broadcast to the still powerful German Gar Rison in Holland to inform the enemy there that food would be flown to dutch civilians rating starvation in areas where nazis have fortified the Netherlands in addition to two Strong pockets of enemy resistance remain to be conquered along the a bran sea and in this National Redt tube in South it has been pointed out at that bitter fighting confronts allies for some time in the Tion of seat it i also was evident the disintegration left of German army did not Teao that resistance had especially since Strong organized resistance has formed in tha i allies scaling off Bedo Ubl three Allied advancing along a 200mile arc from tha Rhine to the czech Wen sealing off the redoubt from the North and Allied struck at rail Yards at Gateway to the bavarian and hammered the might Skoda munitions Plant at Pilsen to isolate the re doubt i the stars and stripes Pat Tel Mitchell said the Lith Dot of Gcorge a us third army rammed 15 utties Southeast in a drive Paral Leonir the czech Border to reach a Taljit 11 Miles from prewar of the Western carve of the Force i of Jean de latter de Tassi Guys French first army the Rhine at in soul Hen and reached the swis to the Center of the to 12th of it ales Ander Patch army fanned out from its a snub River Bridgehead and Reacher the autobahn to Augsburg at a porn 20 Miles East of Luxembourg radio reported tenth army forces had Ettere 50 Miles from mimic but the report was not Patch 44th and tenth Anra mopped up in the Vicinity while one Force of the tent entered two South of another shot 13 Milt southward along the Iller Cajal i Point operations with French tank descending behind the Spe Rhea Orcea from the Patch i 63i int advanced to potato s Miles North of doughs of to division captured a giant Spaic Kali Plant and recovered vital malt Tinei which the nazis had tried hid military authorities declared to Plant would be producing few Tel allies m a the 63d also overran Tarj wehrmacht clothing Muraji captured an Airfield where Ders were found infantry of rows As the 12th i away from its Bridi Jehew at the fourth following up the a the River at that in it More than nine diff Alpi Irah and 103d and the ten and 12th Gen George third army advanced along i 80mile front and drove uti to Miles to reach the Danube in opposite Regensburg one entered the pity of my from the austrian a barely 80 Miles from Bercht Vigadi South of Force advanced eight to and reached the ii Clit j Point where the River was 200 Yards i j Lif j if remnants of five enemy divisions remain on the pos Solh Thern Banks for 25 Miles Between opt Reid Fer Rara and 18 Miles from the other thousands of nazis and fascist italians were pocketed the West but were rapidly being cleaned out to swell the pm count far beyond the last Fleure of resign As col Nohia new work april 25 Nicholas Murray by one of the a Torfs has listened i As of Columbia Universita is ree nation to effective Oci the anniversary of his
