Strasbourg Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 27, 1945, Strasbourg, Alsace                              Ill 17 four cents april 1945 in 42 eligible for army release Washington enlisted who Are 42 years of age or will henceforth be discharged from i lie army at their own overseas soldiers who apply for and Are eligible for discharge will be brought Back to this country Foi at the earliest practicable the new War department Rul which was announced tues does not apply to any Soldier who is undergoing disciplinary action or who is in need of further medical or surgical approximately enlisted men Are 42 or at press amt had received no official notification from the War department concern ing the release of the army also plans to Start re leasing numbers of men who have been in uniform for four to five years this according to the release policy which May preclude any marked Cut in draft after june 13 was disclosed in but Quad said the news by next the announce ment our emergency sol Diers will have spent five years in the the National draft began in the policy of discharging Vete rans of four and five years1 service is expected to get underway around june even if the european War has not been brought to an concerning the priority of re the military spokesman try to declare four and five Jearolds out hut some Are bound to be even a unit Small is a Batter May have men who would be entitled to release but could not be some these veterans Are almost cer Tain to be held in the led armies smashing toward Hitler Redou As All eyes watch for the momentary linkup of russian arid american troops West and South of the impelling action of the Western front is the massive onslaught hitlers Alpine redoubt by three third and the French powerful american and French forces Are racing across Southern Germany on a 250mile front to Ward Munich and the nazi last ditch Mountain Allied strength is estimated at nearly men and Over making the bavarian offensive one of the greatest armoured operations of the the division of Pat tons third army surged Forward again in another spectacular German troops facing the third army front expected a Headon at tack eastward on Pilsen giant Skoda but Patton wheeled sharply he moved the bulk of his army secretly 125 Miles South in 24 hours to set the stage for a devastating thrust to the Rocky ramparts of hitlers eagles crack enemy troops routed patrons drive to the austrian Border and the Sal Zach Valley Gate to  is stampeding thousands of crack nazi troops see Allied on Page 10 pre discharge leave proposed in new Bill Washington legislation whereby fighting men can decide for themselves whether they want to return to civilian life after Vic tory has been offered by my Ohio under mcgregors service men would be Civen fare to their Hoines and a 30day leave before their during that they could look around and then choose Between civilian life or fur ther service in the forces explaining the basis for his Mea Mcgregor said i cannot help but feel that when some of our veterans return to their Homes and find conditions different from when they entered they will not be anxious to return immediately Kramer not will stand trial general Miles Dempsey commandant of he Bel sen concentration Camp who is under arrest in a military will be tried by the countries whose subjects he commit Ted it was officially the announcement also whatever happens to Kramer Wili be done in accordance with the the announcement discredited reports that Kramer had either suicide or been wants no Public office Washington Eleanor Roosevelt stated this week that she would not accept or run for a Blic or any office at present give us the machinery of peace Ruman urges Frisco i n 9 a w san Francisco president Truman opened the United nations conference at of Jet wednesday with the declaration that the 4g participating nations have the Choice Between Continua Tion of International chaos or establishment of a world organization for the enforcement of speaking by radio from the White House to the first plenary session of Allied the president did not mention the polish representation controversy or any gracious Uncle Sam has been bootlegging the War got its ears pinned Back this week when Leigh National president of the accused the foremen department of being the worlds greatest pulling no col Vin elucidated on the evil of drink in connection with the describing he Wanton Sale of Beer in army canteens and Post exchanges As a direct Vio lation of the canteen Law this Law does nor does any other Federal permit the Sale on army of per cent she says that is really four per cent by volume and is not Only intoxicating in sufficient Quantity but is an Annel Tizer for thing stronger other pre conference disagreements but said differences Between men and Between nations will always re in if held within reasonable such disagreements in actually a pro Gross begins with differences of Noi Ilion and moves Onward As differences Are through Rea son and Mutual our problem Here is to provide sensible machinery for the Settle ment of disputes among without peace cannot we can no longer permit any nation or group of nations to at tempt of Settle their arguments if bombs and1 if we continue to abide by such decisions will he forced to accept the fundamental philosophy of our ene namely that makes Rise above self interest to deny this or certainly Are obliged to provide the necessary Means to words Are not we must once and for All reverse Hie order and prove by our acts conclusively that right has our sole objective at this decisive gathering is to create the we must provide machinery which will make future peace not Only possible but cer referring to the late Franklin Truman said in the name of that one who surely is with us today in i earnestly Appeal to see san Francisco on 7 fuehrer nest while three Allied armies push southward through the bavarian Woods against the nazis nation Al a Force of Raf Lan casters blew to pieces hitlers famous chalet at Berchtesgaden last wednesday with a direct hit of their devastating earthquake More explosives rained Down on the storm troopers Barracks and on the fuehrer eagles nest atop Kelstein five Miles from the More than British based american bombers blasted Adolf hitlers private rail Only ten Miles from Berch the american bombers then went on to attack the Mam Moth Skoda armament works at Pilsen in two hours after its slave labourers were warned by the radio to Lake on saturday berlins defense perimeter was blasted by 608 fort slamming tons of bombs on seven key in direct support the american and russian armies engulfing Jet propelled British fighters in their first big operation strafed airfields and communications on while rocket firing typhoons flayed masses of German transport moving slowly toward Berlin in two  columns before the advancing Berlin has been encircled two massive russian armies of marshals Zhukov and Montev As one of the most Savage Battles Ever fought for a City reaches its Cli in his first order of the since the Battle marshal Stalin announced 1st russian troops had Cut Aji roads leading from Westward and linked up with 1st ukrainian troops Northwest of Potsdam the encircling armies were last reported 25 Miles West of Rigi toward a linkup with the entirely Cut off from the rest of the its and buildings a Jungle of twisted steel the City itself a Hejl of smoke and fire and the Days of the once proud Nasi capital Are russians Are hopeful that the Battle i will end this an estimated Ger flan caught in the encirclement Are being steadily overwhelmed in the swaying Street Bat frontline radio linkup soviet forces Are also nearing a linkup with the americans South of russian troops reached the Elbe River on a 24mile front at it is probable though hot confirmed that pair Ola have already established Contact and that a solid linkup is Moscow reported that russians had engaged in frontline radio conversations with american tank More than Onet Hordof Berlin is in russian hands following the in car Wirig drive which pocketed the City and closed pincers of bran Denburg and the a refit Western russian forces lapped up 33 outlying suburbs while infantry and bored into the City fro three sides East and northeast4deahng out unprecedented carnage to the fanatical gun reaching the heart of pumped shells into the famous Unter Den Linden buildings Bor Dering the structures which had survived Morichs of Allied bombing crumpled into fragments under the rain of fire fanatical defense the nazis had Promise that they would fight for every Stone of their capital and with the Bat the several Days there was no question of a russian dispatch the greater part of Ber see russians off Psia 2 Truman sees War chiefs tru Man held an hour Long conference with his military and diplomatic High command monday but conferees left the meeting without disclosing what was discussed linkup wont is Graf end of european War Paris Walfer Bedell Eisenhower chief of emphasized this week theget the linkup of american and Sian troops will not mean the enuf of the was in the con he there maybe much More bitter fighting heavy is Smith explained Trtat Eisenhower is conducting his Cash Nairn on a military Ald that Junction russians will be limited entirely to a political aspects must be1 the Allied Gorri Niehuis