Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 26, 1945, Nice, Alpes Cote D'Azur                                Southern France rur a few today fowl Al 135 1945 one Franq japs last battleships hit a Moat hit sinks Mattie ship Carrier planes lash Home Isle bases july than third Fleet Carrier planes today launched new attacks on japans Inland where seven including the last two serviceable to ships the enemy was known to were blasted american and British Carrier in their second straight Day of fallout operations against Honshu struck at the naval bases of kure and Tokyo radio reported 200 also hit hokkaido Island to the in a preliminary report on the first Days assault at listed these results this Long suppressed picture of 25yearold British battleship Barham blowing up 200 Miles West of in after Tor Pedring by enemy has at last been released by top photo shows Barham in service with Mediterranean Bottom shows fatal expo Barham was Only British battleship sunk by boat during she went to Bottom in four min utes with loss of 859 Winnie Home for vote tally july of the world were upon Britain tonight As that country prepared for Tomor rows count of the general election ballot which will determine whether prime minister Churchill remains in Power or is superseded by a labor government headed by Clement the prime foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and Attlee arrived by plane from Potsdam this afternoon to be on hand for initial results to be announced around Truman Gong to Frankfurt july Truman will take advantage of the big three recess caused by prime minister Church ills return to lon 4don to Fly to Frankfurt where he will review the 84th and third first cramp unit de barks in Boston four comic pages with sundays something new is being added special fou Page comic supplement for sundays Issue of the stars and the new Section will be distributed with the regular sunday there is no increase in keep up with the comics As Well As the Reserve your copy at the nearest news dealers Surra warns visiting brass Allied troops enter Vienna july 25 from two sources indicated today that British and French troops have joined the russians in advices from Rome reported that correspondents had left there for the austrian while a Paris radio dispatch said French forces marched into the City yester 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 is history begin chalking up vital Battle july ought to stand out in red it was the Day americas first army finally broke the German strangle hold which had kept the Allied forces pinned in the Normandy to was taken in after one of the bloodiest single engage ments of the after that every body knew the big breakthrough was but the exact Date depended on flying record founding that Day was july at 10 am the largest Force of american air Craft dispatched up to that time began systematic bombing of a Small segment of the German heavies and 500 fighters of the eighth of dropped their ton they were followed by mediums and fighter bombers of the ninth immediately after the bombing the infantry began pushing along a five mile front West of but the actual breakthrough came at july when the second and third began their huge Power supported by Tan Riding doughboy and infantry the battleships and Yuga a Large Carrier and an escort Carrier of the Kobe class dam the heavy Cruiser tone and the Light Cruiser Yoda the heavy Cruiser Aba sixty four japanese planes destroyed or american planes blasted six of the new surface shelling cruisers and destroyers of the third Fleet bombarded air bases and other installations near Kush Moto on the southwestern tip of the Carrie plane attack carried William Halsey assaults on Japan into the 16th in that period Carrie plane Sor ties have been warships have bombarded japanese coast cities three times and nearly super fortresses have made seven big thirty two thousand tons of bombs and shells have been on a 9j50mile stretch of Japan Northern hokkaido to Southern yesterdays super fort strike on the industries of Nagoya and Osaka was made by 625 of the giant bomb of which Only one was one Hundred eighty of them landed on iwo Jima because of flak dam age or fuel Jap air strength now july 25 the japanese have Only about combat planes vice Aubrey Fitch estimated not he when you recall that the japs lost Over planes around Fitch expressed his opinion in a talk prepared for Tho Navy broadcast on july 25 first unit of army cramps arrived in the today from the Eto and headed for Dis charges because they Are Over among the 361 veterans who were 148 of the who took uie name Gramps to distinguish them selves fro m Oft ally named ramps recovered Allied military i any officer seen in the Nice area who Doest belong Here will be apprehended by Charles Surra announced Mcmackin said that in spite of strict regulations officers have been slipping through and in some cases entering i night Only officers who Are assigned j to duty in this area Are authorized i to be Here and they May be identified by the official Surra Arm j band or shield they Are instructed j to Wear at All he any j other officer seen without that Insigna will be picked up and turned i Over to the District commander and i Dis plenary action will be j Petain refuses to Telegram starts uproar by Richard Lewis stars and stripes staff writer Lidice Butcher on trial july 25 a Karl Herman the Butcher of will be the first War Crim Yuul to go to tin commission july Flat refusal by marshal Henri Philippe Petain to testily in his own treason trial produced a new uproar in the Palace of Justice today after presiding judge Pierre Mon Gibeaux person ally read a Telegram in which Petain allegedly offered Hitler French troops to repel Allied attorneys and French newspapermen All joined in a discussion of Why France fell and who was to blame both exp remier edouard Dala cider and exp resident Albert Lebrun pinned the blauu1 on in a breast beating Ora War Crimea i Swarthy Dalater sought to i disprove by figures the legend he re France was unarmed in charged French generals were let the marshal Rise and answer that suggested judge while defense attorneys crowded around like seconds giving advice to a groggy prize Petain re fused to then the judge read what allegedly was a Tran Nripal of thu Tele Gram m be 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 i propose to continued on i charter aids score Wheeler july 25 Stormy debate broke out yesterday when Burton Wheeler declared that while would vote reluctantly for United nations charter he would fight later to limit use of american troops under Tom Connally and Alben Barkley 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 Carl Hatch challenged Wheeler to try to make reservations now and Clauda Pepper commented that Wheeler intended to vote for charter simply to get on record be fore the next Mussolini son reported held july 25 the radio reported today that Vittorio son of the late surrendered to Allied Tun announcement could not be con it was also reported thai Vito Nephew of the and former editor of the old Lialia of was a Canada to Dole meat july 25 rationing limiting purchases by individuals to one and onethu4 pounds per week will be tuned in Canada not later Thim beat