Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 10, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur Be the. Stars and stripes to Kandy tiny 10, 149 Semon of a City Nhy fog let Pov fkr of death a id res ill me Frei Tim a a Sull the a gathering me Best in dim to Giorei Griefs. 9b#3r� Muse i Fer two a Nieri an and a Lew slave Liu borers Jim Steni i Iron get the fore Gnem a #��ociiie4 Batlle Lirly Wal Hinig slowly with Slung gains or a paying Down the big fits in of Nanys of a it a and Mcka honking cd a mently. No one is buying any Haig. The Quot smart Shopa catering to Quot a Boet elegant tastes Quot the a amp Irb Thiergart Cne Nti Ful Soo logical a though a Hurricane through the City. Shell a Ahi gilded half leafless they Are As he pm m to a red Para Chi dangles from a smashed bamm. The huh of a he Zimmt finial her Hesh meath a fallen trunk. I timed barrels ctr 88s and 78 my 1 antitank guns Mark the remains of dug in positions a dog the Parkway. Fisli Ntaris insist in the Avenue beside the Long up hymns of red flagged russian 3�?~ a be smashed six barrelled in propelled mortars trucks be Daoa. Bratchet dirty leaves Token Glass and the Ever present Stone dust surface the Road. L6i intact is the great Brand enlarge a to Bra the Brandenburg Oates berlins triumphal Arch and Symbol of its military glory. Its Cathens Stul stand their bases partly blocked with debris on top one age Green Bronze horse pulls the do Rio of Victory but the Chariot is smashed and Victory la Only Man glut Metal. One of the horses has Laden to the ground in the Center of the seven pointed off lesser Stem great Star lie avenues sweep together in the tis Garten another statue of the symbolic of Tbs Rumian off Berlin Refo Tistan. Is the rid Flag trying Over a Bat is Sifft off hitlers in. Y. Times radio photo Victory Amason in smoke feared Gold atop a Stone column is untouched. High above the Park at the base of the statue russian Saddier sightseers of Xii Down on the City they have taken. Another sol Dler plays the accordion at the foot of the column. Spros Bridges Down on the Wilhehm Strasse. The Reich chancellery is gutted As Are a the Buh dings where the nazi great made their plans to make this Street the nerve Center of the world. No one seems to know if hitlers body is in the chancellery. No one seems to care. It is difficult to pick your Way through the pavement covered with the Stone entrails of the buildings. On Wal Strasse the entrances to the Berlin sub a Are chewed with broken Concrete and timbers. The Bridges spree River slump into the water a a few civilians their Possessky Mai on baby buggies Jake a across a Comer of the nmn. The russians Are at work reeling one Bridge on Linden Tasse a ride less uns addled Holm picks his Way among the Deihls at the Belle Alliance Platz the Graceful statue dedicated to the Heau Tipul asian Cen stands High on its slender column in the midst of ruin. Russian soldiers Are sitting eating lunch on the Low Stone Wall that surrounds the statue. And that a what its like As you tour the City mortally wounded but Allied bombers and finished off in a Street by Street fight whose dead men guns and tanks make its Only tombstones. All you see Are rubble acid russians. On the Way out of Berlin to feb is a sign White washed into the crumbling bricks of a Wall. It says Quot Mitt Unser Fuhrer Zum Sieg translated that Means Quot with our Fuhrer we aban be ill sees is tilt Sfer a Sainton May 0�?blunt of finding that Many Veteris of the i Kropman War were Pacific bound was Given yest Day by Oen. Torge o. Marshall Aniny chief of staff in a Mie Asage addressed to american troops throughout the world. Tin fortunately Quot he said Quot the coct Isloa of the european Battle does not establish the peace for whih we have been fight ing. A bitter struggle is now in Progress in the a Marshall salp veterans who had been Long overseas and had suffered the. Hasard0 and sen. Mini ibid hardship o f Many Ballet should be spared further sacrifices. All others he added must be moved to the Pacific in Quot an overwhelming flood Quot to bring that War to the earliest possible conc Lusicic As Well As to relieve the War weary veterans in that theater. With the mighty forces that defeat off Germany has released Mai Atiah said the Anny could return the Bong term Pacific veterans and secure an Early and final vie ton. A this statement was supported by close by similar texts from Secretary of War Henry brims a army air of elea Gen. H. R. Arnold and army pro ind Fortes Oen. Joseph w Bui Wellerman naval Craft May join Jap fight my. Mil i j London May 9 Reuter a a Peru Laticia As to the future use and deployment of surrendering Reip Nants of the German Navy arose Here today. With Allied naval experts already in route to various european ports where the German vessels Are expected to put in some quarters in London guessed that what Sleff of the nazi Fleet might be refitted for operate Lam against Japan. As far As is known the German Navy today consists of the cruisers Prinz Eugen id Nimberg probably a dozen destroyers Alki Between 200 and 300 submarines. Earlier reports that the vessels would be concentrated at some United kingdom rendezvous such As 8capa plow or Rosyth now Are discounted. Final disposition of the German Navy Imo Blem probably will be deferred it was Learned until after the san Francisco conference Blue print of the world Security organization in which the vessels May form Piura of the Allied naval police Force. At to triple shift service London. May 9 cup a redeployment and return of combat personnel to the u. 8. By air will be undertaken on a huge scale within the next few months. Brig. Oen. Bari a Hoag commander of the air transport command european dial Loii said in a be Day speech. Hoag said his organization expected to increase its Granaat Banc sad enter theater operation of four engined my Craft by approximately 300 percent to carry Cut its share of the Rede Loyme it program. Propose big 4 control Austria san Francisco. May 9 up a Hie user has suggested to the �oj3., Britain and France that the agreement for the joint for All of Austria be put into Force immediately. The big three decided in 1943 to detach Austria from Germany and agreed about nine months ago on a joint medals rate discharges Washington. May 0 an8 a soldiers who hold the congressional medal or Himor regular army officers excepted will be discharged upon flier request the Ward Arment announced today. The action affects 82 winners of the decoration. Four others Are missing in to release men 42 or older a a Washington May 9 cans a the Navy disclosed today that certain enlisted personnel 42 and Over would be replaced by Yoi Mger men to increase the fleets Quot Overall the order will release 25,-000 Man denies violating Rule in be bulletin Paris. May 9�?edward j. Key Nedy associated press Bureau chief Here who broke the German surrender Story at least 24 hours ahead of official release time yesterday denied that he had violated a Coonfi. Dence or endangered military Security and asked the Aioli Tom of shape Public relations division and censorship As Quot to longer necessary.�?�. Kennedy is under suspension by shape As a War correspondent pending official investigation. He went to Rheims sunday with a group of correspondents. All were advised in Advance that they com not file stories until the surrender was announced officially according to Brig. A. Prank a. Aum chief of shape pro. Kennedy said he filed his Story one hour after the surrender was announced by German Radia he said he informed it. Col. Richard k. Merrick shape censorship chief of his intention before doing so. Felt War finished he ref used to disclose what Means of transmission he used. Quot when 1 saw the surrender signed i regarded the War As being f finished. Our Job is to Tell the people what has happened and not the doctored a inform tits coining from shape pro a Kennedy said. Kennedy a news service was banned in tto a Eto by shape for four hours following his suspension. Fifty four War correspondents signed a letter to Gen. Eisenhower protesting removal of the ban on the news service. A Diz Graceful bit Ayar Quot this action is a most outrageously unfair treatment of Tomso news agencies and whose correspondents have respected the Confidence placed in them by the letter said Quot and who As a result of so doing have suffered the most disgraceful deliberate and unethical double Cross in the history of Gen. Eisenhower replied that no action could be taken against hews Agency for the act of an individual mod ouf Posis Amer to a for War criminal escape Headquarters German from Tler commands May 9�?Germany today has a new West Wall a Chain of Frontier commands organized by Allied military chiefs in capita Nee with supreme Headquarters directives to prevent the escape of War criminals and other wanted persons across the dutch belgian. Luxembourg and French frontiers. To facilitate control movement of military personnel and Civ Loans in or out of Germany a to Prohl i Tod unless they have specific written authorization. Aupied multary personnel crossing the Western German Border today must. Have. In addition. To their personal identify Capon one of the following credentials a supreme pass travel orders a rest area pass or leave a Urden. To Cross the a Ron or civilians under military a Xii role Sach As �o8g personnel and War correspondents must have a personal identity document and supreme head quarters Crew Lentala. Displaced persons can Cross the Frontier Only to official convoys organized at a Itoh laced persons Camps and centers Crossings of the f Frontier can be Luule it it Only at author toed control hitlers or his Cooke a with Brash second army May 9 apr russian troops in Berlin have found a body purported to be hitlers a red army general it sick 6ed two Days ago. The russian whose identity was not disclosed stated that red troops found to Berlin a Buret Tom body of a Man identified As Hitler. Photog Aitos of the body will be studied in Moscow. All hitlers Domestic servants who had fallen into russian hands viewed the to Fly and All but one identified it As Hitler. One servant declared emphatically that the body was that of on of hitlers Cooks. Dispatches from Moscow a quoted a russian Corre to Dent to Berlin As saying search of the ruins of Berlin had not resulted in a ito Tovery of any body that could be identified As hitlers. It was not Clear whether the correspondents statement came after study of the body menu Ned by the red general. Reds name Berlin mayor Moe Xii May 9 Cpl Jill russians have appointed Paul links the first Post nazi Burgo Mettler or berlins Friedrich erg Quot d i s t r i c to where he held a similar poet from 1907. To 1934
