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104' NO. Ill PRICE FIVE CENTS Entered as second-class matter. Post Office. Tucson. Arizona TUCSONARIZONA, SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 21, 1945 TWELVE PAGES THREE ALLIED ARMIES RACE 23 MILES TOWARD HITLER'S BAVARIAN REDOUBT; BRITISH MILE FROM HAMBURG; SOVIET TANKS BATTLE 7 MILES FROM BERLIN CITY LIMITS WEATHER BUREAU WHERE ALLIES GAIN ON 3 FRONTS NUERNBERG IS SEIZED CONFIDENT PRESIDENT SEES S.F.

DELEGATES AND DIPLOMATS i STATUTE MktS Morfh Sea Wifa 4 w' 'b- MORE FLEXIBLE PEACE PROGRAM LIKELY AT S. F. Connally Sees Oaks Plan Liberalized With Eye To. Future WASHINGTON, April 20. (VP) Senator Connally (D-Tex) told the senate today that the Dumbarton Oaks plan for world organization probably will we liberalized at San Francisco to provide for more flexibility in future years.

Connally, chairman of the foreign relations committee and delegate to San Francisco, was given a rousing ovation after a leave-taking speech in which he declared that the American delegation is in harmony and the CAPITAL HEARS GUNS Reds Smash Westward For Link -Up With American Forces LONDON, Saturday, April 21. (TP) Red Army tanks, racing westward for a link-up with American armies, have burst 38 miles across Berlin's dwindling southern escape corridor, Moscow revealed last night as the bomb-torn and flaming German capital disclosed that Russian armor was only seven miles from its city limits. The Russians were at the "very gates" of Berlin and had breached its inner defense ring in a yard-by-yard "hell of fire, steel and blood," the enemy said as peace riots reportedly broke out and the rumble of approaching Russian guns added to terror caused by round-the-clock Allied bombing which went on through the jiight. Moscow revealed that a swift Snvipt. breakthrough south of the In the three-front squeeze on remaining German-held territory (shaded) the Americans captured Leipzig and fought in Crecho-slovakia in the west while, according to German reports, Russians thrust toward Berlin from the east and are reported "at the gates" of German capital.

In Italy the British Eighth Army advanced toward Ferrara. (AP Wirephoto Map.) Central Philippines. Conquest Completed, MacArthur Says MANILA, Saturday, April 21. UP) Gen. Douglas MacArthur today announced, of the Central Philippines has been completed remnants of the Japanese garrison Hears Harriman Report On Russia, Sees Iwo Heroes, Names A Secretary WASHINGTON, April 20.

(President Truman, greeting the foreign diplomatic corps in the midst of a work-packed day, today expressed hope for an era of cordial good feeling among nations. It was a day in which the President shouldered many problems, foreign and domestic For one thing, he got a direct fill-in on tangled Russian affairs from W. Averell Harriman, ambassador to Moscow. the afternoon, at a reception arranerl by the state department, the President shook hands with 59 diplomats from abroad. He managed to give the occasion the air of a good neighbor welcoming the folks from across the street.

"I met many of you when I was vice-president and our relationship was very good," he said in a brief apeech. "I hope that our relationship will continue to be just as cordial as It was when I was vice-president. "I hope our relationship will continue to be on the same cordial plane nationally and with the world as it is between you and f-mt. Harriman Reports Harriman, home for consultation, went to the White House with Secretary of State Stettinius and Under-Secretary Grew. Leav-the executive offices he had nothing to report on the confer-3 mce except that the talk was "about Russia." Obviously, however, it was concerned with such pressing matters as the impending visit of Soviet Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov, and the impasse over Russian demands for representation of the Moscow-sponsored Warsaw provisional government of Poland at the San Francisco United Nations conference.

The pressure of international affairs, increasing in urgency with the approach of the San Francisco conference next week, was reflected in a White House visit by Senator Connally It was Connally's last conference with the President before his start to the west const tonight as a member of the American delegation, Xew Tress Secretary The President's schedule for the day kept up the high-speed pace has maintained since he took office a week ago last night. He Worked in a brief news conference to announce the appointment of a new press secretary Charles G. Ross, 59, Washington correspondent for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and to scotch reports that Senate Secretary Leslie Biffle would be moved to the White House staff. He said Riffle would be of much more use to phim in his present position, and ne duint want to cripple tne senate.

Ross, on leave from his newspaper, will take over May 15. J. Leonard Reinsch, who has been serving as press secretary since Mr. Truman took office, has been called back to his job directing radio operations of former Gov. James M.

Cox of Ohio. He saw the three survivors of the six marines who hoisted the American flag on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima (one of them Pfc. Ira Haves of Bapchule, and accepted from them the first copy off the press of the Seventh War Loan poster made from AP Photographer Joe Rosenthal's famous photo of the event. LIVING STARVED BEYOND SAVING IN NAZI PRISON Naked Men, Women, Dead And DyingStrewn Over Belsen Horror Camp By WILLIAM FRYE BELSEN, Germany, April 20. (TP) The dead were getting a burial today at this fearsome concentration camp each nameless dead man getting a ghastly burial.

No coffins or flower at this funeral. No tears or well-bred sympathy. No music. These naked corpses were hauled In trucks and dumped into a pit. Their pallbearers were SS (Elite Guard) men and women, now Allied prisoners.

Their litany was the hoarse shouts of British soldiers, sick with disgust and fury, ordering these marked members of Hitler's chosen legions about their horrible task. I saw Belsen its piles of lifeless dead and its aimless swarms of living dead. Their great eyes were just animal lights in skin-covered skulls of famine. Most Were Just Dying' Some were dying of typhus, some of typhoid, some of tuberculosis, but most were just dying. Starvation the flesh on their bodies had fed on itself until there was no flesh left, just skin covering bones and the end of all hope, and nothing left to feed on.

Tragically, there is still hope inside these still-breathing cadavers. As long as ejTes can stare from the bodies scattered everywhere on the floors and on the ground there is hope. Hope in these for whom there is no hope. They are living but they cannot live. No food, no.

care can save them. Ahead of them is nothing nothing but that pit with the bulldozer waiting to cover them with earth. Nothing well, there is one thing, the knowledge that after months of bestiality there is suddenly, unbelievably, friendliness and goodwill among men. At least thev will die aware of that. Countless Thousands Died Countless thousands some say 30,000, some say more died without even that comfort, died horrible deaths before the British Second Army reached this camp on the Aller river southeast of Bremen Sunday.

I saw these dead hundreds and thousands lying in ditches and against walls of drab huts and piled in heaps, each one in a grotesque attitude in a grotesque mound. Some were clothed, but most were naked. Their nakedness was of no account because there had ceased to be anything recognizablv human about them, even before "the last flicker of life disappeared. I saw the living beside these dead. Living they still walked and talked and stared curiously, unemotionally at visitors and sniped cigarette butts tossed from a passing army car, went to the cookhouse for food and knelt around fires.

There were supposed to be 29,000 of them alive when the British arrived: living but (Continued on Page 5, Column 1) YANKS IN ITALY SMASHjNTOPO Cut Bologna Highway, Nazi Escape Road; British Gain Near Coast ROME. April 20. (IP) American Fifth Army troops broke out into the Po valley northwest of Bologna late today after a seven-mile advance and fought into the outskirts of Casalecchio, three miles southwest of the big industrial city and communications center. A spearhead of one of the two divisions which burst out of the Apennine mountains on the fifth da3' of the all-out Allied offensive in Italy cut the main Bologna-Modena highway at a point about nine miles northwest of Bologna. This was one of the main escape routes for German forces which have put up a tenacious defense before Bologna for six months.

With American tanks and tank-destroyers streaming out onto the rolling Po plain tonight there was a surge of optimism among Allied commanders that the German armies in northern Italy might soon be destroyed or driven beyond the Alps. British Eighth Army troops, rolling on with the momentum of their plunge through the Argenta Gap, advanced another three miles near the Italian east coast and captured Portomaggiore, 12 miles southeast of the Po valley industrial center of Ferrara. Other Eighth Army forces, driving directly up the Ravenna-Fer rara highway, were'reported within 10 miles of Ferrara. Capture of Ferrara would make the situation of German forces defending Bologna highway precarious. U.

S. Ninth, First And Third Are Coiled To Strike Along Elbe PARIS, Saturday, April 21. (P) Three Allied armies raced as much as 2 miles south yesterday toward Hitler's redoubt in Bavaria, captured Nuernberg and reached within 30 miles of Lake Con stance, western bulwark or the probable last-stand Nazi position deep in the Alps. With tne uritisn Dauering a nine from the suburbs of Hamburg. Ger.

many's second city, and with peace riots reported raging in Berlin and Munich, Hitler passed through his 56th and blackest birth day. But worse was in store. Supreme headquarters declared flatly that the union of the Western Allies and the Red Armies would come In the. next few days. Gen.

Eisenhower declared in an order of the day that German armies of the west were "tottering on the threshold of defeat." Three great American armies, the U. S. Ninth, First and Third, were coiled along the Elbe where by German account the Americans and Russians were but 54 miles apart. Predict Punch at Berlin The Germans predicted that soon the Ninth would uncork a power punch at Berlin from its bridgehead on the Elbe 52 miles away, concerting its blows with those of the Russians now at the eastern gates of the German capital. Allied bombers loosed destruction on German defenses northwest, west, and southwest of Berlin along the route the Allies from the west would have to take to reach the capital.

They struck both by day and at night. The fall of the Nazi party city of Nuernberg released elements of two armored and three infantry divisions for the southward push that was driving a steel wedge between the German's Alpine retreat and Czechoslovakia's arsenals. The Seventh Army was less than 70 miles from Munich and the French were but 65 miles from the Austrian frontier. British Drive on Hamburg Germany was losing control of her great ports Bremen was cut off from three sides with only roads to the North Sea open and British were driving on Hamburg. The southern German city of Stuttgart, with a population of was all but surrounded after French troops entered Alch, ten miles to the south, and the Seventh Army's Tenth Armored Division, after a 25-mile dash, reached a point only 12 miles northeast of Aich.

From supreme headquarters went a sensational broadcast to Russian and Polish slave laborers in the Reich to stay where they were for "In a few days the gap between the armies of liberation from the west and from the east would be closed." Broken Into Pockets A battle dispatch declared the Germans no longer manned a cohesive western front, that the enemy was broken into pockets for the victory assault and the last stand in the north was under aU tack. The British Second Army battled a mile from the suburbs of Hamburg, and sheared it off from Brm-en with a 20-mile outflanking sweep against the latter river port. The report of peace demonstrations came from the Allied-control ed Luxembourg radio, which said without confirmation else-where that red flags waved In the ruined capital of the Reich. Eisenhower's statement that the Germans were at the brink of defeat in the west came in an order of the day in which he called the great Allied victory in the Ruhr a fitting prelude to the final drive to crush what is left of the German army, once the terror of the world. The Stockholm dispatches said the Prinz Eugen, six destroyers, a number of submarines and at least 26 other fleet units had just reached Copenhagen, and that this port would become the base for what is left of the Nazis' Baltic fleet.

The Luetzow is the fourth of seven German capital ships knocked out of action by the RAF alone. In this case, the Air Ministry said, a bomb burst 60 feet from the ship, the violent underwater explosion smashing her plates. In recent RAF attacks the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer was sunk at Kiel, and the cruiser Koeln was sunk at Wil-helmshaven. Tha cruisers Admiral Hipper and Emden were believed by the Air Ministry to have been severely damaged in the Kiel attack which sent the Admiral Scheer to the bottom, which 5,000 enemy bodies were counted on the field Thursday, gave his forces control of 33,000 square miles of the Central and Southern Philippines, liberated civilians and reduced Japanese strongpoints in the entire Philippines to two Davao on Mindanao and Baguio, the summer capital on Luzon. Doughboys are approaching both these, which have been weakened by aerial bombardment.

ThreelLeadcrs Escape MacArthur also announced that three Filipino collaborationist leaders had escaped to Formosa in a Japanese plane. He named them as Jose P. Laurel, "head of this disloyal group," and Beniguo Aquino and Osias (given name unavailable) "two of its most active members." Three members of the cabinet and a number of other prominent members of the Filipino collaborationist government were captured near Baguio. Their names were not given. Heavy and medium ranging from The Netherlands East Indies to the China coast sank or damaged 13 freighters, three coastal vessels, three barges and a transport plane.

They also attacked ground Installations on Formosa and the East Indies. The action on Cebu was enveloping movement which caught the enemy by surprise. Japanese Losses Heavy "Japanese losses were heavy, 5,000 dead being left on the field while remnants scattered into the hills, to be hunted down by our guerrilla forces," MacArthur said. He pointed out that: "Our forces now control the entire Visayan group, comprising an area of more than 333,000 square miles and liberating a population of more than 6,400,000. 1944 COTTON RECORD PHOENIX, April 2 0.

P) A total of 132,532 running bales of cotton were ginned in Arizona during 1944, final figures "of last year's cotton crop showed today. EZEQUIEL PA DILL A MEXICO'S ENVOY SEES NEW PEACE Padilla Says S.F. Parley Will Be One Of World's Greatest Meetings EL PASO, April 20. (IP) Ezequiel Padilla. foreign minister of Mexico, asserted today that the coming United Nations conference will overcome all difficulties to be-rome one of the great and success ful assemblies of history.

The foreign minister, who heads the Mexican delegation to the meeting onenins in San Francisco April 25, reached here today enroute by train from Mexico City. He is confident, he said, that diplomatic differences among some of the United Nations will be settled at the conference and that agreements reached there will greatly affect the destiny of humanity. "There are difficulties," he told interviewers, "but nothing is difficult when good will and responsibility show the way." Lauds Truman's Stand Padilla lauded President Truman's endorsement of the good neighbor policy, and predicted the Mexican senate would ratify the United States-Mexican water treaty recently approved by the U. S. senate.

"President Truman's prompt an-nouncement of his intention to continue the 'good neighbor policy was received with great satisfaction in Mexico and other Latin American nations," Padilla said. "This policy, a continuation of President Roosevelt's enlightened policy is a guarantee for tne world. Behind it are the people of America and their armies fighting for a better world." Good Auguries for Future a pronouncement by the President along with senate ratification of the water treaty are good auguries for the future," Padilla continued. "President Truman has begun his great duties under good auspices. The sealing of such a document as that of the water treaty is a practical demonstration of the 'good neighbor' policy." Of the water treaty, Padilla said: "Since the U.

S. senate's reservations to the treaty do not offer substantial changes in basic clauses. I feel sure that when the treaty goes before the Mexican senate they will ratify it with satisfaction. The senators have been favorable to it and I have no reason to believe they have changed their minds now." XEW BOMBER PLANNED WASHINGTON, April 20. (IP) Plans now are being made for the combat debut of a second giant American bomber, the B-32 Dom-inator.

Chairman J. A. Krug of the War Production Board said today. a hotel patron who shows his room key at the newsstand in the lobby. Also at the moment there are more empty hotel rooms in San Francisco than since the war began.

All reservations except for the conference were cut out April 15 and people who had no urgent business here were told to stay away. This has worked so well that one tavern keeper complained today his business is off 20 per cent. Police made pre-conference raids to reduce crooks' activities. The ship which Moscow sent to the citv is the Smolny, built at Leningrad in 1929. It has capacity for 138 passengers, including 28 first class.

There were reports, now denied, that it was to have been used as delegation headquarters. Under leadership of Foreign C6mmissar Molotov, oh whom much of the success of the conference depends, the Russians will live at one of the wealthy city's finest hotels. United States "has a lofty duty to perform in leading the peoples of the earth away from the concepts of rule by the sword." Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich), also taking leave as another member of the American delegation, said he was going "with a sense of deepest dedication to a supreme cause-." Endorses Connally Stand He asked the senators not to expect a chart for the millennium to come out of San Francisco, but asserted: "I have faith that we may per fect this charter of peace and justice so that reasonable men of good will shall find in it so much good, so much emancipation for human hopes, that all lesser doubts and disagreements may be resolved in its favor." Vandenberg endorsed what he called the "sturdy statement" by his Texas colleague, in which Connally said the American delegates hold no "slavish devotion" to the precise Dumbarton Oaks formula although they are committed to its principles. "We shall not be able to bring back an instrument embodying perfection," Connally said. "There is no instrument extant that does not have somewhere in it things to which this citizen, that citizen, or the other citizen, or this country or the other country may object.

Can Be Built Up "We cannot, of course, write every line, every phrase, and every section of the document which will there be subscribed to; but there will be amending clauses in the instrument, probably more liberal than those in the Dumbarton Oaks agreements, through which we can, over the years, build up art instrumentality of great usefulness to the people of the United States." The senate speeches came while jurists of the United Nations were signing their recommendations for a world court to be incorporated in the proposed world organization. That group was unable to agree on the important issue of whether the existing court in The Hague should have compulsory jurisdiction so that countries can be haled into court as people are in their own lands, or whether their agreement to submit a case will continue to be required. MORE FLEXIBLE MEATPLAN DUE Details Not Yet Complete, WFA Says; Rancher Asks Better Beef Price WASHINGTON, April 20. (IP) Senate food investigators heard today that a "more flexible" meat subsidy and pricing program designed to keep packer profits up to peace-time levels, is in preparation. Officials of the Office of Price Administration, the War Food Administration and the Defense Supplies Corporation, which actually administers subsidies, acknowledged new plans were in the making, but said details.

were yet to be worked out. For one thing, the program has yet to be submitted to William H. Davis, director of economic stabilization, who must approve any subsidy increase. Meanwhile, house committeemen conducting a separate inquiry into rood shortages heard a rancher's demand for three cents a pound more to the producer on high grade beef. Richard M.

Kleberg, former congressman and manager of the huge King ranch in Texas, said that increase would in large degree stifle the black market. "You can't blame people for dealing with the black market when they can get a good beefsteak there while the meat they buy at legal markets tastes like kangaroo meat," Kleberg said. The Texas rancher said the increase would have to be passed on in higher prices to the housewife, a position at variance with the reported OPA plan. capital had reached within 18 miles of Dresden, through which passes the only remaining railroad out of Berlin to the Nazis' "national redoubt." Germans admitted the great Red Army offensive was deciding the war. A Berlin broadcast said "the front is very near and the rumble of guns can be heard in the center of the city, but out of 4,000.000 people, 3,000,000 still are here." Seize Eight Strongholds w's communiques announced that Russian forces, advancing on Berlin and Dresden on a 100-mile front, had seized eight major strongholds while wave after wave of Russian armor lapped at a dozen other fortified towns and villages within Berlin's shattered defense ring east of the city.

South and southeast of the blazing central front, Russian troops in Austria hammered within five miles of the key Austrian rail junction of Laa. and in northern Czechoslovakia drove to points two and seven miles of Opava (Troppau) and Moravska-Ostrava. In the fiery battle before Berlin's eastern approaches possibly the greatest armored struggle in history the Germans said masses of Russian tanks, infantry and big guns still were pouring into the fray against Nazi soldiers who had not slept for 150 hours. The enemy claimed that 1,300 Red Army tanks had been knocked out and said the (Continued on Page 5, Column 4) FLAMING BERLIN BOMBED AGAIN RAF, Flying Forts, Soviet Stormoviks Rain Havoc On Doomed Capital LONDON, April 20 IP) Royal Air Force bombers raided flaming Berlin tonight, following up daylight attacks by Flying Fortresses on the defense arc of the doomed capital and savage machine-gunning of its barricaded downtown district by hundreds of roof-skimming Russian Stormoviks. Instead of the usual announcement that Berlin had been hit by Mosquito bombers, the Air Ministry said the city was attacked tonight by aircraft of the bomber command, indicating "hat heavy bombers as well as Mosquitos had made the mission.

600 Forts, 1.000 Fighters During the day more -than 600 Fortresses tons of bombs on seven key outposts in the defense perimeter attacks, which was in direct support of American and Russian armies engulfing the capital. Nearlv 1,000 fighter bombers of the U. S. Ninth Air Force combed a 300-mile area from Ludwigslust, 85 miles northwest Of Berlin, to Pilsen, 182 south. With a loss of rail yards, and 10 airfields, destroying 71 parked aircraft and shooting down five more in combat.

Thev also shot locomotives and railroad cars. fuel depot at Annaburg, 50 miles south of the capital, and railway yards near Nuernberg were attacked by 280 medium bombers without loss. Murderous' Says Nazi Radio All told, the fighter bombers flew 1,820 sorties. Swarms of Stormoviks the Russians' heavily armored, cannon-firing joined In the Berlin raid. Coordinated withthe aerial bombardment was incessant shelling of the city by massed Soviet artillery.

The German radio went off the air after describing the scene as "murderous." Electric current failed and many of Berlin's sirens ha'd to be operated by hand. Out of the fleet of 600 which attacked Berlin and more than 200 Liberators which raided the Munich and Prague areas a single Ameri can bomber failed to return. Upwards of 800 Mustangs and Thunderbolts shot down seven ME-109S without loss to themselves. with extermination of all but a few on Cebu. He said the Cebu victory, in 15 U.S.

VESSELS OKINAWA LOSS 5 Destroyers Sunk By Japs During 32-Day Fight; Army Units Gain GUAM, Saturday, April 21 (JP) Fleet headquarters announced today the loss of 15 naval craft between March 18 and April 18 in the battle of Okinawa and -associated operations, and said during the period 100 enemy ships, besides many small craft, were sunk and 2,569 enemy aircraft destroyed. Agains furious enemy opposition, Yank amphibious forces, continuing their all-out push against strong Japanese lines on southern Okinawa, ground out gains of 1,000 to 1,400 yards yesterday. The assault was started Thursday, breaking a 13-day deadlock on that Sunk During 32 Day8 The fleet communique said the 15 ships constituted all those of the American navy to be sunk in the Okinawa and related operations within the 32-day period. It made no mention of damaged ships but previously announced "several" units of the fleet had been hit. Strong Japanese resistance continued on Ie Island, west of Okinawa, but the Yanks there continued to gain.

At the end of April 18 they counted 736 enemy dead. Today's communique said they had started to destroy enemy forces holding Iegusug Peak, a troublesome eminence on the islet. Destroyers Listed The American ship losses included five destroyers, the Halligan, Bush, Calhoun the M. L. Abele and the Pringle; two minecraft, one destroyer-transport, one gunboat, four landing craft and two ammunition ships, the Hobbs Victory and the Logan Victory.

Japanese losses listed Included the super-battleship Ya-mato, two light cruisers, five destroyers, five destroyer escorts and numerous cafgo ships and small craft. As was the case Thursday, smashing artillery fire from navy, marine and army heavy guns, and carrier planes flying cover, supported the Okinawa ground operations Friday. The ground forces were made up of elements of the Seventh. 27th and 96th Divisions of the Tenth Army. SUPERFORTRESSES HIT KYUSHU BASES GUAM, Saturday, April 21 UP) A very large force of Superfortresses, estimated af between 200 and 300, visually bombed nine Kyushu airfields this morning in their third bombing strike in five days to neutralize bases from which the Japanese have been attacking American forces at 0kinawa.

The Superforts unloaded demolition bombs from medium altitude in a strike lasting an hour and a Soviet Ship In San Francisco May Pace Parley Entertaining Luetzow, Last Nazi Pocket Warship, Sunk By RAF Bomb By JOH m. liiciiTnn-VR -Russia has sent to San Francisco entertainment ship well loaded ith a cargo of caviar, vodka and other makings of manv gav Soviet Parties during the United "Nations inference. seems certain the Russian tte'pgation, despite the reserved ce it is expected to turn to the Public, will set the entertainment Pace for the parlev, which opens JPm Wednesday. fifty members of the Russian group arrived last night in three airplanes. They are among the first to get here in forte except for XDertS anH oirloe rvf tH TTnlteH V.

I 1 .1 1. V.I' Willi Jtotes delegation. Other groups rured into thp ritv rnriav and the Inflow is due -to reach full volume Sunday night. Approximately 5,000 persons are 'xpected for the conference. This Deans a jammed city despite the taken to keervnon-conference v'sitors out of town.

At the moment there is plenty of food and orink. Cigarettes are available to LONDON, April 20. JPy The German navy, reeling under Allied knockout blows, has lost Its last pocket battleship, the Luetzow, the Air Ministry tonight, and authoritative reports were received of other crippling naval losses. These reports said the Russians were believed to have seized the battleship Gneisenau and the heavy cruiser Seyd-litz at unidentified Baltic ports, while Stockholm dispatches said that what was left of the German navy fled to refuge at Copenhagen. The Air Ministry said the Luetzow is out of action, lying on the bottom in shallow water at Swine-muende on the Baltic coast, her under-water plating buckled by an RAF bomb.

As remnants of her once sizable fleet Germany now has only' the eight-inch gun cruiser Prinz Eugen and the light cruiser Nuernberg..