Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 31, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur The weather forecast or Nice Marseille it it read thursday Cloudy Cool generally fair possibly scattered showers maximum temperature 68. Vol. 1�?no. 19 daily newspaper of . Armed forces in the european theater of operations Blue thursday May 31, 1945 one franc French syrians fighting the spluttering fuse of the near Eastern Quot powder Keg Quot exploded into open warfare yesterday As syrian and lebanese troops clashed with French soldiers Over the question of levantine Independence. United press said French mortars had plastered Damascus capital of Syria and that French troops had fought their Way into the syrian parliament House after blowing the buildings front Gate with a 75 mm., Shell. One French plane dropped two bombs and strafed the City up reported. Border Battle rages heavy fighting was in Progress up added at Derma near the Syria trans Jordan Border. Syrian regulars were reported to have launched Strong attacks against the French Garrison killing at least five men and capturing nine others. The French commander rejected a demand to surrender the Derma. Fortress. French Eye Economy French foreign minister Georges Bidault in Paris said France was ready to withdraw her troops from / the Levant a a after settling a number of outstanding questions a chiefly concerning Frances desire to make sure her cultural and economic interests were protected. A province of the old turkish Empire Syria later split into Syria and Lebanon was made an a a Independent state under French mandate after world War i. The French encountered constant eco continued on Page 8 my discounts Reich unrest with 15th army May 30 up a scattered but increasing political rumblings inside Germany were discounted today by 15th army military government experts As a the natural instincts of any people for All political or Semi political groups uncovered so far have shown definite anti nazi tendencies but regardless of their policies they Are being disbanded i accordance with a sheaf directive. Labor organizations Are permitted to function so Long As political aspects Are avoided. Strikes and walkouts Are fathers proxy1 infant marines capture All of Naha japs retreating from a flame throwers Are used to rout japs out of Waves on Okinawa. Marine pfc Galen a. Brehm of Fayette Ohio works the thrower while an unidentified Rifleman crouches ready to pick off any asps that might attempt to Fie from the hideout. Winant plans Bic 3 Parley London May 30 up a a son was born several weeks ago to an ats Telephone operator and Herbert leak former British army lieutenant whose sterile wife agreed to his associating with the girl to have a child the daily mail disclosed today. At leaks court martial last year mrs. Leak testified in defense of her husband it was stated that the ats girls husband in service overseas offered to become a party to the a a proxy baby pact. London May 30 up a us. Ambassador John g. Winant and Joseph e. Davies special envoy of president Truman conferred with the soviet ambassador Here today opening a new phase in preliminary moves for a big three meeting. French ask charter Chan san Francisco May 30 ans a the United nations conference ended its fifth full week yesterday with big five representatives weighing French amendments to the United nations charter. France was trying to broaden the Section of the charter allowing nations to act immediately in defense against renewed aggression by enemy states of this War the French were reported to want to drop the limitation imposed by the phrase a a enemy states of this a amps sunday Section in debut this week the stars and stripes Magazine a new eight Page weekly supplement of the daily paper will be issued sunday june 3, containing feature articles and illustrations by staff torpedoed invasion Craft Weymouth England May 30 up a German submarines torpedoed american Landing Craft filled with troops during pred Day invasion exercises in British water the uj3. Army disclosed today. A report covering 11 months operations by the transportation corps said troops moving through the Weymouth Portland area were constantly exposed to German air attacks and Many staging areas suffered direct hits. Treason trial faces poet who aired fascist ideas Ezra Pound american poet who broadcast fascist propaganda from Italy during Benito Mussolini a hey Day yesterday was earmarked to stand trial in the . For treason. Attorney general Francis Biddle said in Washington that Pound captured in Italy two weeks ago would be returned under an indictment entered several years ago. Similar charges confront briton William Joyce the nazi radios lord Haw Haw according to the London news chronicle. Joyce now is at British second army he in Luneburg Germany in critical condition As the result of gun wounds received during his capture near Flensburg. A British officer shot Joyce when the latter moved a hand threateningly toward a trouser pocket half of Tokyo is 0urned out Guam May 30 ans a the heart of Tokyo has been burned out by six b29 incendiary attacks maj. Gen. Curtis Lemay 21st bomber command chief said today As blazes started in yesterdays super fort attack on Yokohama still licked at the port 18 Miles South of the japanese capital. Lemay revealed that 51 Square miles�?46 percent of Tokyo a built up area had been reduced to ashes in the series of raids which began feb. 25. The super forts a a destroyed All the target area we have set out to do stroy a Lemay said. Guam May 30 ans a the entire Western Side of the Jap lines on Okinawa collapsed yesterday As marines took All of Naha and broke through formidable defences to reach Shuri Castle. An assault to crush Southern Okinawa s Quot Little Siegfried line stretching from Naha on the West coast to Yona Baru on the East appeared to be underway. North and Northeast of Shuri two army divisions and one Marine division were heavily engaged against tank supported japs who apparently were covering a withdrawal from Shuri. Japanese vehicles and troops moving South from Shuri were under fire from american artillery. City a Complete ruin Naha capital and chief port of the Ryukyu Island fell to sixth div. Marines. The Harbor was cluttered with sunken enemy ships. Naval gunfire and artillery had reduced the City to rubble. A few dead civilians were the Only Tiace of the capital s pre invasion population of 66,000. Attacks on american shipping off Okinawa saturday night and monday Cost the enemy 115 a a suicide memorial Day did not pass unobserved on Okinawa. Behind the bitterest Battle lines of the Pacific War services were held at a to no Naha cemetery. Honoured dead six marines and sailors who Okinawa a capital with Dore Matthew Perry in years lawyer execution near Louisville Kyd a May 30 ans a his second Appeal turned Down by the supreme court Thomas h. Robinsonjr. Is expected to be brought into Louisville Federal court soon to hear the Date set for his execution for kidnapping mrs. Alice Speed Stoll in 1934. Robinson first pleaded guilty to the $50,000 Ransom kidnapping and in 1936 was sentenced to life imprisonment. But after studying Law in his Alcatraz cell for 6 1/2 years he changed his plea to. Innocent and demanded a trial. He was prosecuted under the Lindbergh Law and sentenced to death Luzon divisions link Manila May 30 ans a two american divisions have joined in a drive into Northern Luzon a Bagayan Valley where the last major Jap Garrison in the Philippines is concentrated. An estimated 30,#00 jape Are trapped in the . Plane in action japs san Francisco May 30 up a a new american super bomber made its combat debut Over Southern Honshu wednesday Tokyo radio said today. The japs identified the plane As a b34 super Liberator and claimed it had been shot Down by antiaircraft fire. Two months ago the War production Board disclosed that the b32 Domina tor a bigger version of the b24 Liberator was in bomb defies a11 extinguishers new York May 30 ans a i no known method of combating fire can extinguish pm 74, the new incendiary bomb which is burning out the Core of japanese Industry col. S. E. Whitesides jr., chief of the new York District chemical warfare service said today
