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THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1945 ALLIED GENERALS STOP-PRESS. NEWS Three Japanese ccunter-atacks were broken up on Saturday night and the lines remain unchanged for the 12th day in Southern Okinawa. Admiral N-mitz's communique reports. NOTORIOUS CONCENTRATION CAMP RECORDS DISCOVERED What Americans Found at Buchenwald VIENNA CELEBRATES ITS FREEDOM City's Damage a German Responsibility From our Special Correspondent i. Correspondent Reports from the city describe dancing in the street to waltzes broadcast by Soviet wireless vans, soup kitchens for Austrian children, and the return of the inhabitants from the outskirts.

Austrian militiamen are keeping order and assisting the Russian commandant in the administration of the' city. Russian soldiers tidied the graves of Beethoven and Johann Strauss after a battle in the A photograph taken at a conference in Germany. From left to right are Lieutenant General Sir Miles Dempsey, General Omar Bradley, Field Marshal Montgomery, and Lieutenant General Simpson. FRENCH WOMEN PRISONERS BACK FROM NAZI CAMP Dogs Trained to Hunt Any Who Escaped From our own Corespondent Moscow, April 15. While Tolbukhin's forces are swiftly exploiting the capture of Vienna by ad vancing up the Danube Valley they were forty miles west of the Austrian capital yesterday Malinovsky, north of the river, has defeated an enemy attempt to retard his progress between the Morava and the Vienna-Brno hiehwav.

The Germans committed elements of three Panzer Divisions to battle yesterday and lost about 30 tanks and self-propelled guns. Meanwhile, in East Prussia, Marshal Vasilievsky has opened the battle for clearing the enemy from the Samland Peninsula that juts out into the Baltic west of Konigsberg. With powerful air support his troops E.dvanced yesterday aiuag uk came coast ana tnrough woods and minefields along the shore of the Frisches Hall. Seven thousand prisoners were taken and 6,000 Germans were killed. Reports of daman to Vienna am flictine.

It seems clear that thp. -Rod Army's tactics saved most of Vienna's celebrated buildings from serious damage, but that during Thursday and Friday the Germans "fired incendiary shells into the Russian-held parts, causing fires and explosions. This is probably the explanation of a report broadcast from the citv last niirht in which reference was made to serious damage to buildings on the Ringstrasse, to a wine of the Schonbrunn Palace, and ti i -1 iu tut; x-cujiaineni. DUiicungs. published here show most of central Vienna to be virtually intact, while an account of a visit to the Schonbrunn, the former imperial summer residence.

te'eeraDhed from Vienna yesterday makes no reference to aamage, though it mentions the removal of most of the pictures and furniture by tne uermans. wno ouieted soldiers in the palace. It is clear that if Vienna has suffered more seriously than was at first thought the responsibility lieo on the Germans. 26 NAZI DIVISIONS IN ITALY Alexander's Review From oar Special Correspondent Italian Front, April 15. Field Marshal Alexander, Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean, during the recent conference with war correspondents, reviewed the progress of events in this theatre from the beginning of the winter to the present stage.

The Germans, he explained, had 26 divisions in Italy, some of them the best in the Germany Army the 26th Panzer, the 90th Light, the 232nd and 4th Parachute, and the 1st Parachute, all of them well up to their war-time establishment of about 10,000 men and some of them over strength. On the Western Front, on the otner hand, the 67 Divisions which they had until recently would in a matter of days from the date of his talk have shrunk to no more than thirty. It was probable, re added that the German commanders realised that they had not only lost ihe war but that the German Army was in the process of dissolution. They therefore said: We cannot get these divisions away from Italy, so let us stay where we are and fight it out" As he himself had stated last November, the Germans never intended to pull out of Italy voluntarily. They could not now get their divisions out if they wanted to because of lack of fuel and transport and disruption ol communications.

They had done on the Italian front, as eJso at Cologne, Konigsberg, Gdynia, Danzig, in Yugoslavia, and in the Ruhr, the one thing every good commander tried 1o avoid that is, getting his troops detached and beaten piecemeal. In his review of the Italian campaign Field Marshal Alexander stated that German had been more than our own casualties, a significant fact when one remembered that we were the attackers and the Germans the defenders, and also the great amount of territory we had liberated. TheTimes' Service IMOLA CAPTURED Bridgeheads Over Sillaro Polish troops of the Eighth Army have captured Imofa and are approaching the Sillaro River, it was announced last night from Allied Headquarters. Mediterranean 3 From our Special Correspondent Italian Front, April 15. The Eighth Army offensive in the Adriatic sector of the Italian front is meeting increased enemy opposition as General McCreery's forces approach the River Sillaro.

The bridgeheads across this river, which runs roughly parallel with the Sahterno, have been gained on both sides of the Ravenna- Bologna road about ten miles west of J-iUgo and have been held against strong German counter-attacks with infantry and tanks. The enemy is bringing reinforcements into this immediate area and there has been a considerable stiffening of opposition. North of the bridgehead heavy fighting is going on at Bastia, a key position on the Ravenna-Ferrara road just south-west of Argenta. Our troops have moved towards this town along the road from Men ate, on the southern shore of Lake Comacchio, where? landings were effected last week, and also from a south-westerly direction, reaching the River Reno on the outskirts of the town. North-west of Lastia, between Argenta and Lake Comacchio, Eighth Army troops who were landed from the lake on Friday are meeting very heavy opposition in this area, which besides being flooded is very open.

The Times a Wancbeater Gaardlmn'Serriee FRESH ADVANCES IN CENTRAL BURMA Resistance Disorganised The Japanese forces in Central Burma have lost Hlaingdet, 22 miles east of the last, bulwark guarding their escape route east and south towards citing in general resistance is becoming disorganised, but the enemy are strongly defending positions southeast of Meiktila. In the Kyaukpadaung area. 50 miles west of Meiktila. Allied units against stiff opposition are their recently won positions around the town, which, is an important railway terminus. The power-house and warehouse of the Thai electric power plant were destroyed yesterday by heavy bombers.

Enemy casualties continue to increase. During the week nded April 11 the Fourteenth Army killed Z900 Japanese and 44 guns were captured or destroyed, in addition to a high number of motor-vehicles. Twenty-eight prisoners were captured. Reuter. From our Special United States Third Army Headquarters, April 15.

Record kept by the S.S. Oberfuhrer in charge shows the deaths at the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar in all numbered 6,477 in January, 5,614 in February, 5,479 in March, and 915 in April. The April toll was only up to the 10th of the month. The next day the American Third Army overran the area and brought release to the 21,000 inmates at this resort of starvation, torture, hangings, and shootings. Mostly the inmates were pitiful wrecks in consequence ot the lack of food, hard work, and the ever present fear of beatings or violent death.

At one time up to 80,000 people from a score of nations were here made to work long hours on the production of bombs. Last August American bombers attacked the factory area of the camp and, according to one of the 16 Britons here, did a beautiful job of work in almost halting the production without damaging the huts in which the prisoners lived. Two days later the Nazi press announced that the German Communist leader Ernest Thalmann had been killed in the raid, but prisoners here of many years concur that Thalmann was never at Buchenwald. GUARDS OVERPOWERED When the sound of gunfire from the approaching Americans was heard thousands of the inmates were marched oft by 600 S.S. Guards to an unknown destination.

Then the camp underground acted, overpowered the remain ing guards, locked them up in small cells, and ran the camp themselves till the Americans arrived. In spite of the cruel vigilance of the jniards the nrisoners maintained an active underground and even listened to broadcasts by means of a concealed radio. Inevitably, almost, among so many thousands, the S.S. "found some morally weaker or more brutalised whom they were acne to use lor inexr own purpose. Such were used for spying and to cause dissension.

There were mass exterminations of 12.500 Jews in May and June, 1938. After the Nazi occupation of Austria a great influx of political prisoners and Jews took place. Among the sudden deaths was that ot the Austrian Minister of Justice. Winterstein. With the outbreak of war several thousand Vienna and Polish Jews were slaughtered.

One hundred and four Polish snipers taken prisoner were left food-less until they died. After the Munich beer-cellar bomb incident in 1939 21 Jews were shot at random and the remainder forbidden food for five days. In July. 1941. two truckloads of prisoners taken to Firna died under poison-gas experiments.

In March. 1942, four truckloads of 90 Jews each were TROOPS GROWING VEGETABLES of Seeds by Air From a Military Correspondent S.HA.E.P., April 15. To bring some relief to the desperate food situation in Western Europe troops in the communications zone of the United States Army are planting vegetables in land that would otherwise lie fallow because of the shortage of civilian agricultural labour. It is estimated that some ten thousand nores in France. Belgium.

Luxemburg. Holland, and Germany will be brought under cultivation in this wav. Twenty-seven thousand pounds of vegetable seeds have already been brought to the Armv bv air from the United States. The Army authorities are anxious for local farmers to co-operate with the troops as much as possible, and hope that thev will help bv lending tools. Wherever it can be done without disturbing local and national economy." says a statement made to-dav.

"seeds may be turned over to farmers with the agreement that the veeetatales from them will be sold to the Army at tne price men prevailing lor Army purchases. Share cropping has also been approved." Vegetables produced under this scheme will helD to feed the Army of Occupation in Germany, thus reducing the demand on transport from overseas. It is stated that when the war has ended men in field units in Germany will help in this agricultural campaign. TORY OPPONENT FOR MR. CLEMENT DAVIES Montgomeryshire Conservative Association has decided to contest the Montgomeryshire seat at the general election, and, it is understood, is considering certain names of prospective candidates.

The present member is Mr. Clement k.c. PLAN FOR SAN FRANCISCO Continued from page 4 Russia has grown up since her birth in real isolation and in an atmosphere of mutual suspicion. It will mean a great deal if in the moment of her great triumph she accepts the restraints of' an international order, though in her case the decision at any rate can be made without the difficulties inherent in America's constitutional maze. These difficulties have brought up the new suggestion that the two Powers should have three votes each in the Assembly, and while there would be no particular harm in it, as the Great Powers could even so be greatly outvoted, indirectly the idea might do great damage.

If representation is no longer formally equal in what is to be merely a forum for discussion, but related tosize or power, Holland and Italy wouia naroiy oe satisfied with the same vote as Luxemburg and Brazil with the same vote as Cuba. On the other hand, there is much to be said forvthe idea that the non-permanent members of the Security Council should as far as possible represent regions, and be selected in rotation. This would ensure that all the main regions are represented all ip time on the Council and that all the countries have a turn it should regional devolution and coperation.rand so avoid putting an excessive strain on the central organs and. indirectly, it would also mitigate one "-of the causes of the present misunderstanding, by break ing tip the japparent voting coalition OI Ue 'DIUBU wmuuuu CcLl til. America reconnaissance parrels have reached the western suburbs of Berlin, the German-controlled Scandinavian Telegram Bureau reported last night.

The report added that the patrols were forced to turn back after meeting stiff resistance." The Berlin correspondent of the Stockholm newspaper Dagens Nyheter" reports that the Allied raid on Potsdam almost eliminated the town. GERMAN SPY ARRESTED Teheran, April 15. Victor Jacob, alias Kassakowski, the German saboteur, who has been in hiding since the entry of Allied troops into Persia in August, 1941. was arrested on Easter Monday in Chahrza, near Ispahan, by -the Persian police acting on the information of the British security authorities. This brings to an end the activity of the last remaining German member ot Frank Mayer's Fifth Column in Iran.

Jacob tried to resist arrest, but was unable either to draw his pistol or to swallow the poison pill given him by the German Secret Service. He has now been handed over as a German national to the British authorities. Reuter. BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS Is. 6d.

per line. I Minimum two lines All such announcements must be authenticated ey the name and address of the sender, and In the case ot hv the iansttsraa ol bath Darttta. Postage stamps or postal orders may be sent In Payment BIRTHS DARRICOTTE. On April 13. 1945.

at 13. Roundcrufl Close. Bomlley. to DOROTHY (neeCreese). wtte ot JOHN a.

DARRICOTTE, a daughter Jennifer I. HOLLAND. On April 6. 1945. to BTHSL Jtnee Taylor), wife of ALE.t O.

HOLLAND. M.PS. PJJ.A.O.. a dauihter (Frances Ellsabetti). Shady Grove, Delph.

near Oldham. PEARSON. On April 13. at lajiadowne Nursinx Home. Blundellsands.

Liverpool, to MONA (nee Hushes), wife ot CLIFFORD PEARSON, a daiuhter. 47. Lawton Road. Liverpool 23 SHERROCKt. On April 14.

at Olenaide Nursing Home, to Mr. and Mrs. STANLEY SHERROCKS (lormerly Kathleen Aatlm, of lvanboe, Sandv Lane. Preatwlch. a dauihter (a sister for Gedffreyl.

WALKER. On April 13. ac The Crafts Nursing Home, Oheadle Hulme. to NORA (nee Tyley), wife of ROBERT WALKER, a son (Anthony Robert). 31, Purr-wood Avenue.

East Didsbury ENGAGEMENTS MILLER KERSEY. The engacement Is announced between ALBERT EDWARD, second son of Mr. and Mrs A. W. MILLER, of 156.

Whltmore Road. Harrow. Middlesex, and BARBARA CHRISTINE, only daughter ot Mr. and Mra. J.

C. KERSEY, nf 14. Manor Rd (late 34, Elmwood Avenue, Harrow). THOMPSON BUCKLEY. The engagement la an.

nounced between FLleut. CYRIL JOHN THOMPSON. R.A.F. (South-east Asia Air Forces), younger son of Mrs. and the late Rev.

Albert Thompson, of Didsbury (late Rector ot St. Marks Oburch. and MARGARET JEAN, elder daughter ot Mr. and Mrs Arthur BUCKLSY, ot Gatley. WATSOH PARRY Mr.

and Mrs. Thomas Edgar PARRY, of the Sharston Hotel. Altrtnoham Road, wish to announce tbe engagement ot their only daughter. JOYCE PATRICIA. to KE.NKITH BARBOUR WATSON.

B.A. (T.CD.I, both of the Maxwell Colburn Repertory Company, aarrlclc Playhouse. Altrincham. Congratulations from both sides. MARRIAGES COOOFELLOW STEVENS.

On April 3. at St. Margaret's, Hemlngtord Abaola, HuntlngSomhlia. Lieut. (A) A.

PETER GOODFELLOW. R.N.V.R elder ton of Commander and lira. Alan Ckndfellow. 57. Ashley Road, Epsom (late West Dtdsaury).

to BRENDA JOY. daughter of Major and Mra. STEVENS. Cherry Orchard. Hemlngtord Abbots.

Huntingdonshire. GREEN McCRE. On April 13. at Box Parish Church. Wiltshire.

Flying Officer GEOFFREY GREEN. D.F.C.. of King' Lynn, to BETTY McCREA. of Weddinc Anniversary GOODWIN PACEY. On April 16.

1906, at St. Philips Church. Avondale Square, London, REGINALD, son of the late Mr. and Mra. J.

R. OOODWIN. of Mancheater. to ELLEN MARY, daughter of Mr. and tbe late Mra.

Frederick FACEY. or Ixmdon. Present address. Goodwin's Hotel. Bloom-eld Road.

Blackpool. DEATHS COLLIER. On April 15. mtttr a abort Illness. Davenport Par, stockpott.

BEATRICE LETITIA COLLIER, JJ widow of Dr. Aihton Collier Service at St Oeorge'a Church. Stockport, on Thursday at eleven o'clock, followed bv Interment privately at Buxton. Inquiries to Messrs Oeorge Meredith. Stockport.

OAWSON. On April 14. 1945. at her residence, 64, SIT Wllmtlow. ADA.

dearly loved wife of PP.i5 DAWSON. In her 77th year. Service ft 'he Manchester Crematorium on Tuesdav at 30 rn No flowers, by request. Inquiries io (Wilms.ow). Ltd Tel 2345.

FURLONQER; In 1945. at Rondeboaeh. near Capetown. Captain WILFRID HENRY FTTRLONOBR. JfnfMlilre.

faiment and Kings African husband of Marjorle Furlonger and joungrr son Mary Furlonger and the late Henry Purioneer 10- th Ex mouth Hotpliai. JOHN OIBSON OARTSIDE. of Femslde 6uet RoKl- Exmouth (late of Mancbeitrri. In hie 89th year ADr" 14. at 14.

Russell street, DuktaBeld. WILLIAM. OLEAVE. aged 76 vearat hushand of the late Lilly Oleave. Funeral on April 18 Service at Stamford 8trt (Wea.eyl Methodist Church, Ashton-tinder-tyne.

at to. 'o'-raent at the Hurst Cemetety. Tel 1521 Bulr Oldham. Aihton-undar-Lvn. iS3- hospital, ANNUS J10? w'fe of William INOL1S.

Edlnklllle. Bramhan Road. Woodford. Funeral ejrangraenttuter. Inquiries to CI egg (Wtlmsiowi.

JOHNSON. qn April 15. at the Bungalow. 32, Sandy JOHNSON, In her 88th year. No How era.

Funeral Te7DALTra3231 Byromi. Klngsway. Altrincham OWNEOV. On April 13. in hospital.

ELIZABETH, daughter Of the late Michael end Ann KENNEDY. Interment at Cheedle Cemetery on Tuesday 36- Swan Lane, Cheadle Hulme. Inquiries to James Fy ant-Gordon. Tel CEN. 1035.

LINZ. On April 15. LOUIS, aged 74 years, or Lynwood, Moreton Avenue. Manchester 8, the dearly Sarah LINZ. Cortege leave above address this day (Monday) at twelve noon.

MASSEY. On April 15, EDWARD, the dearly beloved husband of Florence Ellen MASSEY. The Botlirs. Holmes Chapel, in bis 83rd year. Service at Su Luke a Church Holmes Chapel, on W-dnesdey.

April 18. 1945. at 11 IS a.m. and StSSerli In the cemetery at 11 40 a.m. No towers, by request All Inquiries to Mr.

W. CtiarSian. Mlddlewlch Road. Sandbaeh. Tel.

Sendcach 9a HORRIS. -On April 12. 1945. attddeniy, EDWIN, dearly loved husband of Ethel NORRIS. 39.

Klngsway. Manchester 19, In hie 54th year (Bead Muter of Leicester Road School. OtlUnit.tienui at the Manchester Crematorium on Tuesday at 12 30 P.m. No flowers and no moo mine. Firrtber Inquiries to James C.

Broome Tel. AR 1X 290 it ATC LI -TE. K.LI g-On April 15, -uddenrr. ARTHUR ItATCUFFsVElXlS. of The rfomes.

ySSm axed 71 yeara. Fanerai Halgh ctuircn? wKn on Wednesday at 11 SO ajn. tn9Rt? April 15. at Ms residence. St.

CastSe Bin Road. Preatwlch. JOSEPH, beloved husband of -alxabeth SHORE, aged 7 years! ArrertgOT-nts later. All Inquiries Afleck and Oldham Street. Manchester 3.

THORP. On April 14. 1945. LEAH THORP, of Springfield Cottage, stttrttleworth, near leaneheate-yoTOgest daughter ot tbe late JamesnirtdlBlei Thorp, of Bury and Holeombe. aged 81 years.

SSVS i Wednesday. April 18. at twrdu noon. Mr. O.

PAR-TELL. AIDEH. and Mtaa ameerely think Father Ken haw. FttiSr ClTaSatT clergy. friends.

relative. Assistance cKo- 24. HMthbaarn Xie-n di.m. neajtboors who by their letter: cTantaatwrn who so tondly gent dotenej-and floral totaSTof SrrlSrtri-- UotoT Cojai Station. Athton rr-w Road.

Clayton. 1h Mrunem aoy.L$m, fvittf memory ot' WOWHU BRinn-r gu. ISO 194 on-Apitl In. -13 John and Clsale. JAMES C.

BROOM IS. funeral 42 IXVrJ.O 1 Aiao at uranoirr- ongsarht Biwrntt-grayM-gy fNsRaAira; taken to Bernburg experimental laboratories and died there. In October. 1941. about 7.000 Russian prisoners of war were shot in the stables at Buchenwald.

the usual scene of the shootings. According to prisoners the outstanding place of extermination in the world was Auschwitz, near Cracow, where they said 4.000.000 Jewish. Polish, and Russian men. women, and children have been liquidated. Buchenwald evidence repeatedly writes off hundreds as transported to Auschwitz.

BRITONS' ESCAPE A few days before the Americans arrived a Londoner accused of espionage was hanged. This prompted three other Britons, knowing that the Americans were drawing near, to hide under the floor of their hut, where they remained for some days till the Third Army arrived. The Britons were well but undernourished. They told of Gestapo interrogations accompanied by beating and worse. One method was to make a man stand with his toes and forehead touching the 'wall, pull him back by the hair and then crash his face against the wall.

For the least offence the meagre diet was withdrawn completely for days, and. suspended in narrow punishment cells with their hands tied behind their backs, men would be lashed till unconscious. Some 60,000 to 75,000 opponents of Hitlerism have perished at Buchenwald either from violence or harsh conditions. The prisoners were made to work hard on a meagre diet, and disease, including typhus, was rife at the camp, to which the Americans are hastening medical help and supplies. NEWS OF LEON BLUM Set apart from the main camp was an enclosure for women, where 40,000 lived at one time, it is said, and 2,000 still remained.

Till a few days ago Leon Blum and his wife and Daladier, the former French Premier, were in a specially guarded sector of this camp. Among those still here is a former Lord Mayor of Prague. Here over these acres of suffering and misery enclosed by a 10ft. high electrically charged fencing of barbed wire is the stark gruesome reality of Fascism, with cells, a crematorium in the ovens of which still lay charred skeletons and oiles of ashes, and amon? which still lav burned bones, a gallows, an experi mental laboratory in which serums were tried on the prisoners, and a cellar store in which normally 500 bodies awaited rransier to tne busy crematorium. Hangings were carried out in a cellar from which an electric lift carried the bodies to the incinerators above.

The usual meinoa was slow Killing by hanging. A few miles home of Gauleiter Frederick Sauckel, a close friend of Hitler, who frequently siayea wun oaucKei. Tne saucKels did not await the arrival of the Americans. TheTlmes' Manchester Guardian' Service BRITISH RAIDS ON FORMOSA A'dvances in Okinawa Carrier "planes from the British Pacific Fleet have ioined in the attsrlc on the much-bombed island of Formosa. Swooping down in a surprise attack, they bombed the Matsuyama and Shinchiku airfields, in the northern part of the island, pounding Installations without opposition.

The targets included a railway hridee. hangars, and barracks on the airfields. Several aircraft on the ground were damaged. Small groups of Japanese 'planes made desnerate hut unsurnssfni attempts to attack the British fleet about 350 miles south of the Ryukyu Islands. Three Japanese "planes were shot down, while the British ships suuerea no aamage.

have virtually completed occupying the iviuiuuu x-eninsuia ana nave aavancefl northwards up the Ishikawa Isthmus. nicnarpn rrnm I ManarrhnKV American forces have captured two more smau isianas or xne iegaspi group, ok ine souin-easiern part ot Luzon. TTnitpr! Srntiac: trnnrto Mnr-A. m-j avc i-acu ill Ull Bagiuo, the Philippine summer capital ana utauMuai lcis or xne remaining JaDAnpst in Northern l.irnn a Japanese civilian national -volunteer decided on by the Koiso Cabinet on marcn z. is to oe iormed along the lines or a national fighting organisation in a case of national emergency, the Japanese news Agency announced ci tei uay ter.

SUICIDE OF A NAZI WAR CRIMINAL A Ruhr Police Chief Nissmitz. Near Freyburg, Prussia, April 14. The first big war criminal to fall inrr Allied hands was run down to earth in this sleepy red-tiled little Prussian village this morning by General Hodges' American First Army. But thev mt him just too late. Afraid to face an Allied trial, ne cheated justice by poisoning himself as American agents waited on his doorstep to seize him.

He was dying fast when they at last got intn tho house. He was Paul Hinkler. infamous police commander of th Ruhr ei n- Wappetal. Hinkler was no small fry. ne was reared throughout Germany and figured high on the black list of wanted men drawn up by the Allied Governments.

He was said to have been responsible for the killing of 700 people because nf th.ir nnliHMi U. ClUUi views or because of their racial origin. jiiuujer was one oi me original Nazis. He was in the first 100,000 to join the party. When the American agents knocked thr Hnnr hie v.AM huc Acs, uicui wcUtlUK while he leapt out of bed and took sonmm jivnn.H on3 AtUi "7- icw minutes.

He died in his nightshirt on ui an auic aoove some Friday, the thirteenth. By one of the itwi.Mu.n6s vri. laic I lit? IWU AUleu were once Germans. They are now natn1icoJ A ANTONESCU LOSES ESTATE The estate of former Rumanian Prime Minister, has been divided among peasants- under he agrarian reform law dealing -with, the property of war criminals, according to a Bucharest report quoted by Moscow radio. Reuter.

city cemetery and laid a wreath ot red roses in Strauss honour. The Viennese, according to one report, are celebrating their liberation as if on a great and long-awaited ho'iday. Events of the last few days have, it is stated, confirmed the reports that the Viennese population actively resisted the Germans, who tried to deport them, evacuate industrial enterprises, and convert the city into another fortress. The Russians used new tactics in the street fighting for the citv. Instead of advancing along the streets they moved through the courtyards, breaking down walls where necessary, and thus neutralising most of the enemy's firepoints.

The method was tested in the later stages of the Budapest fighting, and the Germans tried to take some measures against it by ordering the Viennese to lock all doors, gates, and top the walls with barbed wire. Many of the inhabitants, however, ignored the order. The number of industrial enterprises working in Vienna is put at over 5,000, including 15 large factories evacuated to the city from Germany. Over 500,000 foreign workers, mostly Russian and Ukrainian, are said to have been employed in Vienna at one time. The total number of German refugees there are estimated at nearly a quarter of a million and many well-known Polish collaborationists are known to have taken refuge in Vienna.

Representa tives of Austrian political parties banned by the Nazis are reported to have met and elected district mayors to help the Soviet military commandants to restore order in the city. Guardian-Service BOMBS ON VILLAGES 1 AFTER CRASH But None Exploded A number -of high-explosive bombs fell among the farmsteads and small holdings of two Norfolk villages on Saturday morning and the wreckage of two Liberators was strewn far and wide, yet there was not a single civilian casualty. None of the bombs exploded. The Liberators, outward bound, were about to get into formation when they crashed on the villages of Haynford and Spixworth. which are about one and a half miles apart.

The majority of the crews were killed. At Haynford, the 'plane crashed into the grounds of The Grove, occupied by Mr. and Mrs. G. Lewin.

and some bombs landed near the house. Mr. Lewin, a head warden, found a huge petrol tank on his doorstep and the wood in front of the house ablaze. With Mr. J.

C. Harrison, an artist, living a few yards away, and the police, he organised a party and fought the flames, which were threatening surrounding property, until the fire brigade arrived. At Spixworth, the wreckage again missed houses. Yesterday search for some of the bombs continued and soldiers cordonea off parts of the villages. BOMBER FALLS IN FIELD Three members of the crew were killed when a bomber crashed and exploded in a field at Oxton (Notting hamshire) early yesterday.

Four other mem Mrs or the crew are in hospital, with Derek Fearn (15), of Private Road, Southwell, who was struck by a piece of flying wreckage when walking home from a dance. The injured members of the crew are Stanley Bowring (compound fracture of leg and arm and burns), G. Martin (suspected fracture of the skull and cut face). Frank Hearn (burns), and Edwin Dash (injury to foot and face burns). CRASH NEAR PRESTON A 'plane crashed last night in a field at Cocker Hill, between Inglewhite and Whitechapel, about 10 miles from Preston The two airmsn in it were killed instantly, but their nationality is not known.

An eyewitness said that the 'plane seemed to shed a wing in the air it came hurtling to earth and buried itself in the ground. It immediately burst into flames and was burned out before help could reach its occupants. GERMAN REPORT Yesterday's said German communique uw. Bftwfen live Dra nd Dmoube hint delenlre continued. in a determined counter-attack north-west ot St.

Polten our troooi destroyed 20 tsoki. Eut ot tne Marcn rtrone enerai attacks were partly checked alter Initial ealns The enemy, who had penetrated Mannharabrtmn. wi tta-own back by a Volkaiturm battalion nf pi.i youth. Repeated Soy let attacka tilled between the March and the aourte ot the Neutra. sereral penetration area were narrowed down, by counter- Tbe defender, ot Breilau repnlaed atronz attacka atalnst the weatern front ot tne tortreia atarn yeiterday.

Between the Nelsae conscience and the Odeshruch the Sovleta made numerous attacka atroturlr supported by tanks, mainly In the area ot Kaitrtn. Our dlTtatona repulsed the Ooyleta and destroyed 98 enemy concen trations and deployment arras under a heayy etlecUT Ere. the Weatern Vistula plain awaylnc battles hare oeen reported to oe in proems near Oottawalde. On the Samland tront tne SoWtteretSmrT" back sereral miles to the east. Our northern Hank, how-' eer.

to pushed back by the enemy after hard West. Iu Holland the Canadians attacklnc near wv.c iumvjc score more wan local successes. In spite of atron artuim nTTiir atmport. Beeonalaaance forces nan advanced north-wardaan to the approaches of Oronlnsro. Between.

jwi mie use siiHstwn nas remained essentially nochanced. Serene attacks atralnst Verden on tne Alter and reconnaissance thrusts aasinat TJelxtn. 'were repelled, nomeroua utnka belm catroyed. lUi-eaat of Masdeburg Grenadiers threw -back jirnracan xorces wnien nad crossed the at ana trnk iaw n. SOBtb of Una area eauroer-attaeka aesttuit othea.

local rrtdarrtrads sue In proaicaa. On the Bohr and In Use Bertlr-NtMna the enemy yesterday tutaln rrm tinned his break-throoali attempts tu7acsij oi sxnicria. xne expand tbetr breach north west of TJVIanvh-ld. In the western and southern part of the Harts Motmtarna the enemy poshed back our formation! In heayy Iciest and moontaln The defence battle In Central Oermany increased in extern and. violence yesterday.

South ot Berntmrc a relatively atrons American battle trroop forced a croaxinc ot tlx Seale and thrust forward to the east. Shock formations attacked the enemy tanka and iwiitw near losses on tbe m. The formations advancing on Leipcif and Cbemntu were baited In tbe outer defence asoes by mobile reserve and X-A. battle ardeps. Numerous storms potnta are attll puttlnc up a stiff minifies use enemy xrar.

toua tywc cown stnms lorces. in lVcritlxw an enenrr tsuast rattalon waa anaabed cp by a counter-attack. It lost 22 tanks. In the Frarjcoolan atotmtalns Ttokst mobile battles developed writs, sameswr mecaa tans, xorcea. -acs tassa which had broken throoch entered Bayreuu.

On the lets wine ot the sorajstrrn tront the etatray. soflertnr heavy losses la ncn and imterlal. aealn made several Itreacttea vest of Baders-xUden. Too Brlttah. svnd takercans lost 9 tanks on tse Western rrrrat, Italy.

In Italy the flehttne aonth-wsst ot take irfM has switched to the auiaro River. Sorae force which had crossed to tbe western task of Use liver were tttrotvn back by Immediate eoonter-rtuL Td ebe "ti.l aeetor of tbe ataxtheni front alter atrotuc artillery preparation the enemy yesterday icaiuaed his our nyoarrtatn pnaitrona atwjts-weat ot Vrnsto. Be was repelled with nf1" tot made a few minor penetrations. On Us MTttnan casus, tow. nsmms ccsismwcs Wlta iniilaiail yrolene- rrv waa able Ln oar main ttsfeoce pnttrmn north of Carrara.

aMarana In 9yine our troops, altar days of heavy seat net hotly psuwuins have taken trp new sosuKiu an tctr.ins aismeroaa- anernpta ao bxsat ttirouati and to enrirrle our tnopa. aim. A small American ocenocr torrnetion tiomtsrs) a Dlace ln tbeOatmaik. VoUiMm. Ote bUtmSB itutMx ot sceneries; the ureas, waa the tercet tor a xtntiah mcnt terror raw a rnrsrqeratKC part ox tne end town.

with, ncrnerous blstorte btlikllnea. i.i m. carrivon crrorch. waa des-royad. Lots of life was rnrslrtrtalile.

In addition bombs wen dropped on the Belcti cam til and the north-west German coastal Cxtrtct. Reuter. Paris, April 15. A train slowly drew into Gare de Lyon on Saturday morning bringing back to Paris 177 women from the Ravensbruck concentration camp, the first important group of political deportees to be repatriated. They were not liberated by the Allied armies, but were exchanged against German civilians through the Swiss Red Cross.

The party originally numbered nearly three hundred, but some, including General de Gaulle's niece, remained in Switzerland for treatment while others have been taken from the Swiss frontier direct to their homes. These women have mostly been absent from two years to six months, but have aged anything from ten to thirty years. Their faces are pale and waxen, hair white or colourless, and all are extremely thin. Many who were straight are now bowed. Even husbands sometimes hesitated before certainly recognising their wives.

A number had to be carried. They had been employed on the heaviest work, such as roadmaking and the reclamation of marshland, on infamously inadequate rations in foul and humiliating conditions under a guard of S.S. whh. police dogs trained to hunt them down if they tried to escape. Collapse from overstrain meant death and the crematorium.

On the morrow of the liberation of Paris the S.S. rem shaved nearly all the French prisoners in Ravensbruck, which contained women from nearly all the occupied countries. These liberated women include both those deported primarily for their own activity and others taken as hostages for their husbands' activities. The party was originally tQjconsist of about 350, but the Germans refused to release fifty of them. TRIESTE'S FUTURE "Wants to be Included in Yugoslavia" Marshal Tito Moscow.

April 15. Marshal Tito has told the Red Star that the oonulation of Istria and Trieste want to be included in the new Yugoslavia He expected all Yugoslavia to be cleared in a month or six weeks. He defined Yugoslavia as a federative State of six federal units Serbia, Croatia. Bosnia and Herzegovina. Slovenia Crnagora (Montenegro), and Macedonia and said that each would have its own Parliament.

"The overwhelming majority does not wish for a monarchv." he said Reconstruction work had already begun. Help from the United Nations' Relief and Rehabilitation Administration was very necessary as thousands of oeoPle were starving. Tito added The Germans smashed Yugoslavia in ten davs. This must not happen again. A united democratic, and strong Yugoslavia will be one of the main bastions for peace in Europe.

We will do' everything to ensure that the Balkans shall not be the powder barrel it used to be." Tito called Marshal Stalin "a simple and true man. a great commander and Reuter. PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S i FIRST DAY Newspapers' Encouragement Washington, April 15. The neWSDaDprS to-Hau aroaaA President Harry Truman's first day in oiute wun encouraging editorial comment. "President Truman in our opinion has taken th firct- ctonc twr-A ViO 5uvu beginning for his administration," the Washineton Pnst tairi "Mi.

in office brought a number of important decisions. In oah raw thou- oyyu have been made with dispatch and good Toe New York Times spoke of the pnmhinaHnn rt t-u-iK pvbll CAJICriCJILX, common sense, and wise Senate friend- which 'would stand President Truman in good stead when the great business of the aay became the ratification of the treaties which committed the United States to use her power to uphold the peace. Eeader- snm fhanffM -re' vuurav Ilea CI 13 charted the newspaper added). The Ym 11 fT 4m iiouuii aLrong ana Jis power to recuperate from the shock of a grievous national Inu wilt chnw The road leads forward. President Truman's voting record in the Senate ehmrc thaf fen followed President Roosevelt's policies iue uaxnesuc ana ioreign neias.

He voted in favour of lend lease, repeal nf th nrme Ajn1.apon mwai6t AiiOUl ui U1C reciprocal tariff-making power, the Sa1mHjc SannM. Af tin favour of naval and aircraft exiunsian programmes. in domestic legislation he supported, among other social measures, the Social Security Act and the Fair Labour Standards Act Reuter. CATHKDRAL SERVICES aol) CommanlOT- SondM. it 9 mm ana Ufa igareltoDtn ml FxltUn 11 mjn.

SwtUan titer aac notice. latliu nld at 11 ajo. Snttnec uid 30 'fierriei ot Interccxsioo. 1 25 to 1 50 9 to. An inquiry bureau is being established at once in Paris through which families can obtain information about relatives still at Ravensbruck or who have died there.

The three hundred who have been liberated are onlv a small percentage of the political deportees, of whom a large proportion will, probably never be found alive. Three, if not four, members of General de Gaulle's family were taken to Germany, and as many of the immediate relatives of M. Teidjen, Minister of Information, to give only two examples UNFORTUNATE IMPRESSION It is for this reason unfortunate in its effects on opinion in France that arrangements to make contact through S.HA.E.F. of the Piench authorities with the liberated cs-mps in Germany are so slight. M.

Frenay, the Minister for Prisoners and Deportees, told the foreign press on Friday that he received a large part of his information through the press and that the number of French liaison officers admitted was a mere fraction of those asked for. The argument that inter-Allied rather than purely French teams for repatriation should alone be admitted to Germany may be sr-und but is very unconvincing to French ears when inter-Allied teams are leady only in quite insumcient numoers. Amongst those who are reported liberated from Buchenwald. near Weimar, is M. Julien Cain.

well known not only as the distinguished head of the Bibiiotheque Nationale but as a close friend of M. Leon Blum and M. Reynaud. Bernard Fay, who accepted the Vichy nomination to succeed him, did his best to make the Bibliotheque Nationale a centre of collaboration with the Germans while Cain was in a concentration camp. Fay is now awaiting trial.

BOMBERS ATTACK POTSDAM German Coast Targets Mosquitoes of R.A.F. Bomber Command carried out another raid on Berlin last night. On Saturday night La'ncasters of the R.A.F. made a heavy attack on the garrison town and transport centre of Potsdam. 18 miles west of Berlin, states the Air Ministry.

Visibility was good and the bombing was well concentrated. Berlin was also attacked, as well as objectives in Cuxhaven and Wismar (on tne Baltic coast, north of Schwerm). Three enemy aircraft were destroyed in these and other operations, in which more than 700 aircraft of Bomber Com mand took part. Two of our bombers are missing, i Beaufighters of Coastal Command on Saturday carried out a successful attack with rocket projectiles and cannon on enemy shipping in Josing Fiord, southeast of Egersund, Norway. A U-boat and a naval auxiliary were hit.

as well as a depot shin and a small merchant man. One enemy aircraft was destroyed Dy escorting Mustangs. Two of the ueaungnters are missing. KIEL EXPLOSIONS On Friday ninht the ereater nart nf a force of 850 RA.F. bombers made another concentrated attack on the German naval base of Kiel, causing large fires and explosions.

In the earlier attack on the nort nn Monday night, reconnaissance has snown that in addition to the sinking of the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer. the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper and me cruiser maen may nave oeen damaged, says the Air Ministry News Service. A liner, the General Osorio. was listing heavily, and one naval vessel and a submarine were sunk and another vessel was burned out. MALTA'S NEW VICE ADMIRAL The appointment of Vice Admiral Sir Frederick H.

G. alrymple-H amilton to be Vice Admiral Malta and.Flag Officer Central Mediterranean is announced bv the Admiralty. He succeeds Vice Admiral Sir Louis H. K. Hamilton, who is to assist the Governmentof Australia from June 1 as first naval member of the Commonwealth Naval Board in succession to Admiral Sir Guy C.

C. Royle. As Rear Admiral Sir Louis commanded the light forces in the successful combined operations raid on the Lofoten Islands in December, 1941. Vice Admiral Hamilton entered the Navy in the first term of the Osborne and Dartmouth scheme. 'He the first captain ot H.M.S.

Prince of Wales, but that command on his promotion to rear admiral. V2 SITES IN JUTLAND? Stockholm. Aran. -15. The Germans are- moving great quantities of V2's into Denmark, apparently with the idea of setting up a 'new base, a source just out cf Berlin told the Morgon T-idnjngen." The projectiles are being sent to Vem- dsyssel.

in the northern tip of Jutland, where for some 'time "the Germans have been working feverishly constructing starting sites." states the renort. which added that the' Nazis were -sending a large number of one- man to Zeeland in Denmark. Associated Press..