Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 5, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               Nice Marseille edition  ito lidded Parish state Joumana is divided into parishes originally for re. Ligiou9 purposes but kept for governmental divisions Tihy newspaper of . Armed forces 18 that sos the Rural districts of eng land and Woles have much higher illegitimate birth re than a Ondong Quot i 4 Al. 4 r vol 1�?no. 53saturday, May 5, 1945 = a pvt Arm i Jussen my s news fac Risis looms ated Italy was converted from a military to a political Battlefield yesterday As the government of Premier Van Bonomi struggled with an internal political crisis and dispute the Validity of Jugoslav claims on maritime portions of Venezia cilia province at the head of the to tao Csc. A Venezia Quilla cd staining the Large cities of Trieste plume Pola and ooh Day the first three of Northern Italy and Western Austria. Trieste and Gorizia were captured a couple of Days ago and yesterday vips Josip Bros Tito announced that his Jugoslav partisans had cleared fiume and Pota destroying two German divisions British involved Tito a Headquarters declared that hew sealanders of the Allied eighth army entered Trieste a a without our permission and warned that a a undesirable consequences Are possible unless the matter is settled promptly. A British frontline correspondent said the dispute dating to work War in had reached the stage where a repetition of last Winters a a greek tragedy was possible. A London newspaper asserted that hot Only were Tito partisans and sealanders in Trieste but also Gen. Continued on Page 8 Rangoon port taken intact in a us Ceylon May 4�?Rangoon to Allied troops virtually three year Burma Cam Asia command he. Japanese armies in Burma unable to defend Rangoon effectively. Port installations were taken intact and will be open to shipping in a few Days. T Rangoon was Tbs Southern terminus of the original Burma Road. With the fall of Rangoon population 600,000allied troops Are poised to strike into the malay Peninsula Siam or indo China. The japanese were pushed Back 0� Miles in the test 86 Days of the Burma Campaign the whole of which Cost a hem a a estimated 97,000 killed. All German forces in Holland no Germany and Denmark in elude a land and the frisian islands have dered to Field marshal sir Bernard l. Gomery a 21st army group effective today. M a a a Kos a a Fig Siewt. Montgomery my r r last night while reports the Man surrender to the allies was flooded Europe Ufi. Emphasizing the disintegration of m the announcement that the seventh . Across what once was expected to to a redoubt and had driven through the Brenner pass with the fifth army in Italy. Ant Vul �?�4 a few when a Soldier kisses an my that a news. But that la just what pvt Anthony Razz of Niles Ohio did following hit bar Aton from a Gorman prison lamp and Ovari action to an Ai Flold in Pranoto. Tho Start Iod my la pvt Dalo v. Lockhart of Camp woo Texas. Razz Owara Gorman equipment and a Hood to Yovor hit head which shaved by Tho nazi Hitler s body still missing Moscow May 4 Cap a no evidence Baa yet been found in Berlin to substantiate German statements that Adolf Hitler Paul Joseph Goebbels and newly appointed nazi chief of staff Gen. Krebs committed suicide. Red army men forced their Way into the burning Reich chancellery but found neither hitlers body nor any evidence he bad died there. Dresden bomb toll 300,000 with first army the Allied air raid on Dresden feb. 13-14, killed 300,000, according to a report by Dresden police to 000 British and French prisoners who were Given passes by germans to enter the american lines. One British sergeant said. A Dresden police say that 300,000 died As result of the bombing not including deaths among 1.000,000  Montgomery reporting the Northern sheaf said it was a Battlefield capitulation of on 21st acs Northern and Western flanks Reuter said 1,000,000 germans had surrendered in the last week on the Northern front alone and sheaf said that 500,000 quit in the last couple of Days. It could not be immediately determined How Many prisoners the surrender Holland and Denmark would add. There was no late report on where Hundred i i of German ships and boats had gone after a mad flight from Kiel and the Schleswig Holstein areas. They were fleeing toward Northern Denmark and Norway when Allied planes Sank damaged or set fire to 149, ranging from Ocean going steamers to fishing smacks. Norway surrender the Northern surrender left the enemy of Norway but reports have persisted fog there would give up. Czechoslovakia was almost surrounded s. Patton s third army and soviet Armijo into it. Third army troops were five Miles from of Linz. The red army was approaching Prague. The seventh army had exploded the redoubt Bubble and the germans in Northern Italy and Western Austria were unconditionally surrendered Early this week. In Moscow according to Reuter speculating on the possibility of a general All remaining centers of resistance. It was suggested that an ultimatum Date might be fixed after which All fighting Ger continued on Page a 600 u. S. A Oris a week on Riviera i the largest single contingent of was yet to come to the Riviera for seven Days rest arrived in Nice yesterday afternoon and last night the american girls were touring the i Paradise taking hot Baths and sleeping Between sheets at the Alhambra hotel. Arrival of the was opened a program which will bring an average of almost 900 was and nurses to the Riviera each seven Days for the next six weeks it was disclosed by it. Ool. O. U Mcmackin assistant and acting director of u8rra. In no Djune the quota is expected to increase 60 percent. The present schedule will bring about 400 nurses 160 enlisted was and 30 wac officers to the Riviera each week. The �o8rra billeting office said the new would be billeted at the Alhambra hotel Nice. Nurses and wac officers will stay in Juan Les pins and Antibes near the ground Force officer rest Center in Cannes. Bus service will be established Between �?o_2__ _ and Cannes Mcmackin said. Reds say Spain sees the Light indications that Spain might to getting ready to declare was on Germany were riven by Moscow radio last night the broadcast said Franco had an agent at san Francisco waiting for Spain to Anni Aurico its War declaration in the Hope of winning a seat at the United nations conference by r