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06 gm Lrbt Thursday Morning May 10 1945 2 Good Fellow Act Fails to Lull British Anger at Doenitz Reds Free Prague Strike To Quell Nazi Diehards Stalin Delayed VIE Report Officials Hint Wild Revelry Features Russ V-E Day Ainple Appreciation to Shown ill Russian V-E LONDON Thursday May 10 IrP) Stalin announced the liberation of Wednesday and said that while a small group of die-hard Germans still was resisting in Czechoslovakia "we must believe that the red army will 'succeed in bringing it to its senses" LONDON May 9 British Press A5311 said Wednesday that although Adm Karl Doenitz successor to Hitler implied that he might have a finger in the future government of Germany "he is not likely to be recognized by us as anything better than one of the war criminals" "There is a conviction that the root of German militarism which has been responsible for recurring wars is the long-established general' staff that through the years it has done more damage to civilization than the upstart nazi party and that the general staff is to be placed beyond further mischief" the agency said While the British government accepts the report that Hitler is dead the British agency's parliamentary lobby correspondent said that there was a possibility that Heinrich Himmler notorious gestapo chief is in Sweden "People coming from there are saying so in sufficient numbers to give a certain credence to the story" he said "Without any question Himmler is a war criminal but I can now state that for four or five months Himmier has been trying to perform a quick change' act in hope of convincing the world that after all he Is a humanitarian and a decent fellow "It seems that he countermanded an order by Hitler for the shooting of a big contingent of British and American prisoners of war after we bombed Dresden His intervention saved them He also allowed a number of Jews to escape into Sweden" The agency said that the British government "adheres to the opinion that Himmler superseded Hitler last February in authority in Germany" and that "since then Hitler had been a waning star while Goering has been completely out of the picture" By Kirke Simpson Associated Press War Analyst Moscows celebration of V-E day when it did come lacked nothing in enthusiasm due to delay The Russians went at it whole hog once they knew the war in Europe was over Their spontaneous demonstration before the United States embassy in Moscow like the fervor of Russian greeting of American troops on the Elbe in Germany testified to Russian public appreciation of the American share in the victory The signing and sealing of surrender terms at Gen Eisenhower's headquarters at Reims was just a preliminary step in Russian eyes apparently It took formal ratification of the capitulation in Berlin to satisfy Moscow that the end had come Reds Make Certain That had been Russian practice from the first in announcing military victories They waited long sometimes even after nazi official admission that a particular city or fortress had been taken to confirm the news in a Stalin order of the day The idea was presumably that the victory announced should be beyond question By announcement said and are shooting every citizen who appears on the streets of the towns and villages" still held by them The French defense ministry in Paris announced that German Atlantic port garrisons at La Rochelle St Nazatre and Loriert tad surrendered leaving only the Germans Still holed up in Dunkerque to be accounted for in France The fighting in Prague and L'1 the neighboring territory was in violation of the surrender terms and the soldiers participating are regarded as guerillas unprotected by international law Stalin said prague was freed at 4 a- hours after the midnight dead line of the surrender terms Germans Attack City During the day the Prague radio said German dive bombers had attacked the city three times before its final liberation was announced by Marshal Stalin Stalin's order of the day was addressed to Marshal Ivan Konev and generals of the First Ukrainian army In Moscow the victory was saluted by 24 salvoes from 024 salute given for the liberation of a national capital Stalin's order of the day was the 368th of war in a series which began on Aug 5 1943 with the proclamation announcink the Lb eration of Orel and Beigorod Like every soviet order With the exception of that announcing the historic linkup of soviet and American forces it ended with the exclamation "Death to the Gentian invaders" the time Moscow heralded it the ground taken had not only been occupied but well consolidated In effect of course Russian procedure tends to dramatize the German surrender in Russian eyes as a Russian victory with allied assistance Maybe it was planned that way As this was written no mention had been made in Moscow accounts of the preliminaries at Reims which set off victory celebratiDns on both sides of the Atlantic Be that as it may there is certainly no disposition this time in this country or in Britain to start an argument over who won the war in Europe Both nations are too deeply concerned with getting on without delay in the remaining war against Japan Russ Entry Possible Whether Russia is to join the united nations a fellowship against Japan is the dominant military unknown quantity of the Moment Russian entry into the war in the Pacific could have as great or greater psychological effect on Japan than its immediate military Impact It might induce a Japanese surrender before utter devastation is visited upon Japanese cities and communications by air as a prelude to invasion The climax came in Germany with every evidence that panic reigned in and out of German armies over the approach of Russian hosts Japan faces the same situation if armies from China are Included In allied invasion forces as they probably will be Surrender now or soon in the Pacific would mean surrender to the United States which aside from China has thus far carried the main war burden in that theater Berlin Ceases Existence As World Metropolis Just after midnight the Moscow radio broadcast a soviet communique which stated that the capitulation of the Germans was proceeding on all fronts except in Czechoslovakia -where a group of Gerrnan troops "avoiding capitulation to soviet forces is retreating- hastily to the west and southwest" The Moscow communique said soviet troops had linked up with Americans in Austria in the area of Anstetten Shortly before Stalin announced that Prague had been freed the Prague patriot radio broadcast an invitation to Pres Eduard Benes and the national government to return to Prague from Kosice The German high command in what the announcer of the Flensburg radio said was the "last commilnique" announced Wednesday night that all German arms had ceased firing on order- of Grand Adm Karl Doenitz Achieved Great Victories "We have achieved great victories but also heavy we succumbed with honor" said the announcer An -Associated Press dispatch from the British Second army said a fierce battle was being waged at Segeberg 25 miles north of Hamburg in a woods where r00 fanatic German SS troopers and' marines were battling German soldiers The dispatch said the territory had been made out of bounds for British troops and no British troops had been molested German troops were sent into the area by their commander with orders to clear it out Prague was occupied by the Germans March 14 1939-in one of the Hitler strokes that culminated in history's most devastating war The Czechoslovak news bureau in London said some die-hard German soldiers still were fighting in Moravia and claimed the Germans were "ravaging all the country" "They have not given up" the Exclusive Times-Salt Lake Tribune By Harold Callender PARIS May it is denied that there been any official explanation belief in diplomatic circles here is that Marshal Stalin insisted upon postponement of the allied announcement of German capitulation because he wanted it to take place in Berlin where the Russians hold sway rather than in Rheims Gen Dwight Eisenhower's headquarters London Washington and Paris waited until midday Tuesday for Stalin to fix the time for the official announcement of the end of hostilities which had already been delayed 36 hours at his request: They then decided to wait no longer and to make their announcement without a concurrent announcement by Moscow it was said here Monday on high authority The impression here' is that Stalin was angry that capitulations by the German commanders had first taken place in Italy then in northern Germany where two British commanders Field Marshal Harold Alexander and Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery received them and that the first complete surrender was made to Gen Eisenhower even though the western allies immediately informed Moscow of the German offer and representative of Stalin signed along with the chief of staff of Gen Eisenhower and the assistant chief of staff Gen Alphonse Juin Considered Role Greatest "Stalin thought that victory should have been toasted in vodka rather than in champagne" said one Frenchman The Russians he said considered their role in the defeat of Germany and their suffering during the war had been greater than the role and suffering of the others Moscow radio often had eniphasized this view According to the version told to this correspondent here Wednesday Stalin gave no explanation of his insistence upon postponing the -news of the end of the -war and gave no time for its assurance but left his western allies up in the air until they acted without him This course on his part is regarded as emphasizing the less than complete coordination of policy between Moscow and the western powers of which the Germans tried until the end to take advantage by directing their surrender offers westward instead of eastward The fact that the western allies immediately reacted by refusal to accept surrender unless it was made at the same time to Russia apparently was not enough to satisfy Stalin who is believed to have set his heart upon the formal humiliation of Germany in Berlin and nowhere else By Eddy Gilmore MOSCOW May 9 (11 Thousands of wildly happy Russians trooped through flag-lined streets of Moscow Wednesday celebrating the end of the war in Europe and the greatest victory of their nation Joining with them were the nationals of others of the united nations including many Americans (The Russian ST-E day celebration was climaxed by an address by Marshal Stalin 'announcing Germany's surrender and ordering a triumphant victory of 30 salvoes from 1000 guns In a great spontaneous tribute to the United States thousands assembled in front of the American embassy during Wednesday afternoon shouting: "Long live America Long live Truman Long live the memory of Roosevelt Long live the American people" Centered at Kremlin Officers and Ls and staid members of the state department joined in the wild tribute and were hugged and kissed by the Russians The demonstration was touched off anew when George Kennan minister hung out the soviet flag beside the United States flag which was at half staff for the late president Throughout the early morning and all day the center of the celebration was the vast Kremlin square where the people shuffled Over the old cobblestones shouting "Long live Stalin Long live victory" American Is danced over the ancient stones with pretty Russian factory girls released from their duties to celebrate the victory of Germany One American corporal after about an hour's celebrating gasped: "Boy oh boy If I'd played post office every day until I got into the army I wouldn't have been kissed as many times as I've been kissed today" The first word the Russians had of the end of the conflict with Germany was at 1:10 a tn this morning when Uri Levitan star announcer for the Moscow radio came on the air with the glad tidings Planes Roar Overhead Although most of Moscow's residents were asleep the news quickly spread Lights snapped on in residences and in night clothes tumbled out into the streets shouting and dancing Some knelt on the pavement and prayed The announcement of the war's end was quickly followed by a special order decreeing Wednesday a holidax As dawn 'broke over the jubilant capital Russian planes roared and swooped overhead I TWELVEN DRINKS kt NO1 DEPOSITS 001 AT GROCERS If Stalingrad London Cuernica Rotterdam Coventry wanted avenging they have had it and no mistake about it The red flag or rather several red flags fly on top of the reichstag which is burned hollow The Tiergarten opposite the reichstag looks like a forest after a big fire There was heavy street fighting here I motored from the Templehof airport in a fast car and during 30 minutes unhampered driving I spotted only six houses which you were not able to see straight through and in which there were of habitation The population and red army soldiers are attempting to -clear some of the main streets The -Russian command has already erected 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