Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 26, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               A boat hit sinks battleship Barham 1/000 Carrier planes lash Home Isle bases Guam july 25�?more than 1,000 third Fleet Carrier planes today launched new attacks on Japan s Inland sea where seven warships including the last two serviceable battleships the enemy was kno fam to have were blasted yesterday american and British Carrier planes in their second straight Day of All out operations against Honshu Island struck at the naval bases of kure and Kobe. Tokyo radio reported 200 also hit hokkaido Island to the North. J a adm. Nimitz in a preliminary report on the first Days assault at kure listed these results a he a a it a >.v. <-x>y a a vex i this Long suppressed picture of 25-year-old British battleship Barham blowing up 200 Miles West of Alexandria in november 1941, after Torp doing by enemy a boat has at last been released by admiralty. Top photo shows Barham in service with Mediterranean Fleet. Bottom shows fatal explosion. Barham was Only British battleship sunk by a boat during War. She went to Bottom in four minutes with loss of 059  Home for vote tally London july 25�?eyes of the world were upon Britain tonight As that country prepared for tomorrow s count of the general election ballot which will determine whether prime minister Churchill remains in Power or is superseded by a labor government headed by lenient Attlee. The prime minister foreign Secretary Anthony Eden % and Attlee arrived by plane from Potsdam this afternoon to be on hand for initial results to be announced around noon. Four comic pages with sundays a amps something new is being added a a special four Page comic supplement for sign Day a Issue of the stars and stripes the new Section will be distributed with the regular sunday paper. There is no increase in Price. Keep up with the comics As Well As the news. Reserve your copy at the nearest new dealer s stand. Truman going to Frankfurt Potsdam july 25�?president Truman will take advantage of the big three recess caused by prime minister Churchill s return to Lon-4don to Fly to Frankfurt where he will review the 84th inf. And third army. Dive. First Gramp unit de barks in Boston Boston july 25 Ansis the first unit of army a Gramps Quot arrived in the . Today from the Eto and headed for discharges because they Are Over 40. Among the 361 veterans who disembarked were 148 of the oldsters who took the name or amp maps to distinguish themselves from officially named Quot ramps Quot recovered Allied military personnel Surra warns visiting brass Allied troops enter Vienna London july 25 up a news from two sources indicated today that american British and French troops have joined the russians in Vienna. Advices from Rome reported that . Correspondents had left there for the austrian capital while a Paris radio dispatch said French i forces marched into the City yester Day. Various zones of control in Vienna were agreed on some time ago by a British american Mission which conferred there with red army . To break was year ago by Earl Mazo stars and stripes staff writer when the people who write world War ii s history begin chalking up vital Battle dates july 26, 1944, ought to stand out in red letters. It was the Day americans first army finally broke the German stranglehold which had kept the Allied forces pinned in the Normandy beachhead. V St. To was taken in mid july after one of the bloodiest single engagements of the War. After that everybody knew the big breakthrough was coming but the exact Date depended on flying weather. Record Potin Ding that Day was july 25. At 10 am the largest Force of american aircraft dispatched up to that time began systematic bombing of a Small segment of the German lines. First 1,500 heavies and 500 fighters of the eighth of dropped their tonnage. They were followed by 1,000 mediums and fighter bombers of the ninth of. Immediately after the bombing the infantry began pushing along a five mile front West of St to but the actual breakthrough came at Daybreak july 26, when the second and third army. Dive. Began their huge Power drive supported by tank Riding doughboy and infantry afoot. The 30,000-ton battleships Isa and Yuga damaged. A Large Carrier and an escort Carrier of the Kobe class damaged. The 14,006-ton heavy Cruiser tone and the 6.006-ton Light Cruiser Yoda burning. The 9,000-ton heavy Cruiser Aba damaged. Sixty four japanese planes destroyed or damaged. American planes blasted six of the ships. New surface shelling cruisers and destroyers of the third Fleet bombarded air bases and other installations near Kush Moto on the southwestern tip of Honshu. The Carrier plane attack carried adm. William f. Halsey s assaults on Japan into the 16th Day. In that period 9,000 Carrier plane sorties have been flown warships have bombarded japanese coast cities three times and nearly 3,000 super fortresses have made seven big raids. Thirty two thousand tons of bombs and shells have been rained on a 9�0-mile stretch of Japan from Northern hokkaido to Southern Honshu. Yesterdays super fort strike on the industries of Nagoya and Osaka was made by 625 of the giant bombers of which Only one was lost one Hundred mighty of them landed on iwo Jima because of flak dam age or fuel shortage. Jap air strength now  Washington july 25 ans a the japanese have Only about 5.066 combat planes left vice adm. Aubrey w. Fitch estimated tonight. Quot not Many Quot he commented Quot when you recall that the japs lost Over 4,000 planes around  Fitch expressed his opinion in a talk prepared for the Quot Navy hour Quot broadcast on Abc. Any officer seen in the Nice area who does no to belong Here will be apprehended by maps it. Col. Charles l. Mcmackin Surra director announced yesterday. Mcmackin said that in spite of strict regulations officers have been slipping through and in some cases entering i night clubs. Quot Only officers who axe assigned to duty in this area Are authorized to be Here and they May be identified by the official Surra Arm band or shield they Are instructed to Wear at All times Quot he said. Quot any other officer seen without that Insigna will be picked up and turned Over to the District commander and Dis plenary action will be  Petain be uses to testy a Telegram a starts uproar by Richard Lewis stars and stripes staff writer Lidice Butcher on trial Luxembourg july 25 it apr Karl Herman Franck the Butcher of Lidice will be the first War criminal to go to trial the War crimes commission said. Paris july 25�?a Flat refusal by marshal Henri Philippe Petain to testify in his own treason trial produced a new uproar in the Palace of Justice today after presiding judge Pierre Mon Gibeaux personally read a Telegram in which Petain allegedly offered Hitler French troops to repel Allied invasion. Jurors witnesses attorneys and French newspapermen All joined in a discussion of Why France fell and who was to blame both sex Premier edouard Dala Dier and sex president Albert Lebrun pinned the blame on Petain. In a two hour breast beating oration Swarthy Daladier sought to disprove by figures the Quot legend Quot France was unarmed in 1940. He charged French generals were responsible. Quot let the marshal Rise and answer that one Quot suggested judge Mon Gibeaux. While defense attorneys crowded around like seconds giving advice to a groggy prize fighter Petain refused to reply. Then the judge read what allegedly was a transcript of the Telegram Quot me Chancellor Hitler after the interview i have just had with Laval and in the Light of the last British aggression which was rolled Back from our soil i propose to continued on Pace at charter aids score Wheeler Washington july 25 Ansi Stormy debate broke out yesterday when sen. Burton k. Wheeler a Mont declared that while to would vote reluctantly for the United nations charter he would fight later to limit use of american troops under it. Sens. Tom Connally a Tex # and Alben Barkley cd by objected that to ratify the charter and then to refuse to Back it up with troops to enforce peace would be to Welsh on the agreement. Sen. Carl Hatch . Challenged Wheeler to try to make his reservations now and sen. Claude Pepper a Fla commented that Wheeler intended to vote for the charter simply to get on record Quot before the next  Mussolini a son reported held Rome july 25 apr the Swise radio reported Quot today that Vittorio Mussolini son of the late dictator surrendered to Allied troops. The announcement could not be Coo firmed. It was also reported thai Vito Mussolini Nephew of the duo and former editor of the old Poole do italia of Milan was a prisoner. Canada to Dole meat Ottawa july 25 ans a meat rationing limiting purchases by individuals to one and one third pounds Quot per week will be re instituted in Canada not later than set the weather forecast for Nice Marseiles term thursday fair maximum temperature 89. Forecast by Mart Nane Airport weather station Dally newspaper if . Armed a. 1�?no. 135 the tripes crop pm theater of opera time one year ago today first army tanks and doughs split German lines near St to to begin Normandy break a through. The drive freed allies from Normandy Beach. Thursday july 26, 1945 one franc last battleships hit