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5 ALLIED MISSION IN COPENHAGEN Arrival By Plane SURRENDER IN NORWAY THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN. MONDAY, MAY 7, 1945 RUSSIA'S ARREST OF POLISH DELEGATION "Documents Signed MR. CHURCHILL To Broadcast on Thursday London's Grave View MOSCOW FORCING A POLITICAL SOLUTION IN THE EAST By our Diplomatic Correspondent SWEDEN READY FOR PRAGUE ANNOUNCES "HELP HAS COME" Midnight Broadcast CITY REACHED BY SOVIET PARATROOPS Patriots' S.O.S. After Week-End Rising AFTER Mr. Churchill to broadcast to the nation on Thursday, but there is expectation that he will previously have made the VJL-Day announcement Thursday is the fifth anniversary of bis taking office as Prime Minister, the anniversary of the destruction by enemy bombs of the old House of Commons, and, curiously enough, also the anniversary of the spectacular (and still unexplained) arrival in this country of Rudolf Hess.

Possibly Mr. Churchill will have something to say about these three events. The hour of Germany's total and to the Soviet. Mr. Eden, It is believed, went to the Crimea with these London, Sunday.

The "missing" Polish democratic leaders, who, Mr. Molotov has now informed the British and American Governments, have been arrested on a charge of diversionary activities against the Red Army, were understood in London to be fifteen, not sixteen, in number. As far as could be ascertained here, they consisted of thirteen representatives of the principal democratic parties in Poland, an interpreter and General Okulicki. A very serious view of their arrest is naturally taken in authoritative quar Soon after midnight the patriot-controlled Prague radio, which had earlier been sending out urgent appeals for Allied aid after Saturday's rising in the city, announced "Help has come." Allied divisions are approaching," the announcer added. Units of General VTasov arrived here to-day.

All armed units will firmly hold their positions." If, as it would appear from this statement, Soviet units are actually in Prague, they must have been dropped by parachute. The nearest Soviet ground forces yesterday were still meeting strong resistance at least a hundred miles from Prague. Meanwhile American forces to whom the Czechs have also appealed by radio are moving rapidly on Prague from the west. They are meeting hardly any opposition in accord with the Germans policy, reaffirmed by Donitz on Saturday, to continue fighting only against the Russians, and yesterday captured the great armaments centre of Pilsen, 50 miles south-west of Prague. Inside Prague street fighting was reported to be going on last night, but news from the city depended entirely on radio reports.

One station was in patriot hands, but the Germans evidently controlled another in the city, and the situation there was obscure. ters, for the majority of the politicians had been specially recommended for inclusion in a new Polish Government, and represented part of the Anglo- American contribution to a Polish settlement on the lines of the Yalta decision. Russia's explanation of what has happened to them makes it appear as if they were already under arrest when Sir Archibald Clark Kerr and Mr. Harriman, in the early sessions of the Moscow Commission, were engaged in nutting forward their qualifications to Mr. Molotov.

BRITISH INVITATION British interest, particularly in the part these men might play in securing a Polish solution, is suggested by such facts as are known about their original recruitment. It is understood that before the Crimea Conference the British Government asked the Polish Government in London to supply the names of their underground leaders in Poland for British guidance. Mr- Arciszwski's Government was reluctant to do so for. as it said, it was respon ciVilo fnv fVn lives of these -neonle. The names of politicians in Poland who could be relied upon to co-operate with Russia were eventually Biven by other Poles in London, who earnestly wanted such co-operation and thought that this would be a helpful step towards s-iirinff it.

Contact was made with these Poles in Poland, who agreed that their names should be notified to the British and American Governments LfrtDZifb 1TT ZECH0-SLOlvArjA "CHARGES UNFOUNDED" By a Polish Correspondent -London Poles APPEALS FOR AID FROM SHELLED RADIO STATION At 2 45 a.m. the announcer said AS From David Woodward, Manchester Guardian War Correspondent Copenhagen, May 6. The first Allied troops to land in freed Denmark were a company of the South Lancashire Parachute Battalion which flew ud from an aerodrome near Hamburg to act as escort to the SJELA.E.F. Military Mission to Denmark, led by General Dewing and Rear Adrniral Holt, both British officers. I flew with the paratroopers, who with the mission and signals personnel were packed into twelve Dakotas.

I had been with the battalion on D-Day and the night before, but this was a very different party. Then there had been tenseness in the dark 'planes, and rather self-conscious Now the men are plying me with questions about Copenhagen just as the piane made on over jweciaenburg. They had the right to be tired, for in the advance from the Rhine to the Baltic tney Had always been in the van, and that day had iust been rushed bv lorrv from somewhere near Wismar to take the 'plane. OVER THE BALTIC The flight went on over the Baltic, where we saw one German steamer holding her course with two great white flags flying, something to tell me that I was not imagining that the day before I had seen the bulk of the German armed forces surrender. Then we came in low over the island of Laaland, where each one of the little white farmhouses was flying a big Danish then on over the islands and inlets in showery weather till suddenly there was Copenhagen below us.

Just one glimpse of the Hans Anderson spires and the towers of the city set amongst so many Danish flags that they looked as though they were sticking out of a giant's flower bed, and we circled Kastrup Aerodrome. As we circled round, waiting for our turn to land, we saw people in the streets running, cycling, riding in cars and carts heading for the aerodrome. Then we came down. The first platoons in red berets and camouflage smocks had already formed up as I walked across the aerodrome In front were Luftwaffe sentries still armed, and on duty behind them were und amazed German fiehters their dingy green, purple, black camouflage. and over on the left 500 men or tne Danish resistance movement were drawn up as a guard of honour.

DANES AVERT ATTACK Airfield Cleared Copenhagen, May 6, Members of King Christian of Denmark's bodyguard rushed on to the Kastrup airfield and killed or captured the Germans there shortly before the 'plane carrying General Dewing landed. As the 'plane carrying the General was circling to land the Danes saw that the Germans were aiming their guns and they went-to the field immediately. After disposing of the Germans they paraded on the field as the General alighted. General Dewing and 400 British officers and men are now in Copenhagen, where they were given a really welcome reception. The people of Copenhagen ran into restaurants, hotels, shops, and even private homes and brought out gilded and coloured chairs with which they rushed into the ranks of the troops, sat them down and hoisted them to their shoulders, carrying them triumphantly round the town.

Women threw flowers over the troops and hugged and cheered them. General Dewing was somewhat embarrassed when a girl with vivid red hair rushed up to rum, flung her arms arouna mm, looked at him for a moment, and then IcisKPrl him full nn the mouth. The general was leaving his hotel to-dav. when six SS. men in civilian clothes and with Danish flaes in their buttonholes were recognised by Danes with, whom tney were mingling.

ine S.S. men made a move towards the British general, but were quickly seized by angry Danes Fifty-nine patriots were killed and 209 seriously injured yesterday, but it now seems that the worst is over and that the city will soon be calm. General Dewing stated to-night that the German troons in Denmark. numbering between 200.000 and 300.000. win be removed to Germany by the German High Command.

Reuter. AUTHOR COLLABORATOR SHOT More than 400 Danish Nazis were paraded before jeering Danes to-day. Thousands of Danes crowded the city's central town hall square and lined one of the main streets to see the Danish informers pass by in lorries. Both men and women scoffed and spat at the Nazis. One of the foremost collaborators with the Germans, the Danish-Icelandic author Gudmundur Kamban, was sitting at breakfast when the freedom fighters came to arrest him.

He refused to accompany them because, he said, he was in ill-health, but added You can shoot me if you want it doesn't make any difference." He was finally shot in the presence of his 22-year-bld daughter. Snipers, presumed to be Danish Nazis and Gestapo men. opened fire on the first Americans to arrive in Copenhagen as they drove into the main square. British and American troops, freedom fighters, and Danish police immediately replied with a hail of bullets. Reuter and Associated Press.

300 S.S. MEN HOLD OUT With the British Troops, May 6. The German army commander has been ordered to disarm the three hundred Six troops in the Segeberg Forest, north of Hamburg, who are retaining their arms in defiance of the unconditional surrender terms. The SJS. men are resorted to have Sfthe people to take down their white flags and shooting villagers who protested.

if the SS. refuse to comply military action will be taken bv the British Army. Conferences between German officers and British personnel are going on at all headquarters almost all day Ions as details of toe surrender and its implications are worked out. The guns have stopped firing everywhere in North-west Germany and kHoHaad, except where small detached rearguards and who are out of radio contact nave naa no intarmauon of the capitulation. Reuter LANCASHIRES ESCORT FUGITIVES From our Correspondent Mat 6.

The Swedish Army to-day is com pleting arrangements for receiving a large number of German soldiers who are expected to come across the border from Norway for the sur render. It is still not clear, how ever, when and how the capitulation will take place. One fact is fairly certain namely, that there is no question of any desperate last stand among the Norwegian moun tains. It is even said that the capitulation documents were signed a few days ago when ierboven visited uopennagen. although the putting in force was postponed until to-morrow in order to settle some practical details.

One remembers that the capitulation in Italy was also signed several days before it was publicly announced. The main question seems to be to whom the Germans axe to surrender. They are evidently willing to surrender to the British and Americans or to the Swedes, tout desperately want to avoid falling into Russian hands, and the Russians are the only Allied Power having an actual front on Norwegian soil. It is significant that the press to-day was permitted to publish details of the camps established along the Norwegian border for disarming, delousing, and sorting German soldiers, who are then to be sent to internment camps in the interior. Terboven and the German High Com mand in Norway are reported to have gathered at Laiiehammer.

Anotner or many unveriflable reports is tnat an Allied Military Commission yesterday passed through Stockholm on the way to Norway. Quisling speecn yesteraay is regarded as his farewell to the Norwegian people and is also interpreted as a sure sign that the surrender will be peaceful. The Germans at Gestapo headquarters at Victoria Terrasse, Oslo, yesterday began burning their archives. Quislings all over Norway are busy destroying incriminating documents. YUGOSLAV RULE IN TRIESTE Italians for Trial From our own Correspondent Trieste, May 6.

The Yugoslav Government in the city of Trieste has to-day altered the curfew, allowing the population out from 7 a.m. 6 p.m. This morning for the first time many people are walking in the sunlit streets with less tense expressions. Strong British-American forces are in the city to-day. To-day I went to see Political Commissar" Storka.

who signs all manifestos on the city walls, and Major General Cerni. Both are Yugoslavs. Commissar Storka confirmed that six out of' twenty members of the Italian Liberation Committee had been arrested, including the Consul. He said they would be tried in a few months' time, and the world press will be invited." "NO SECRET ABOUT IT" He added that the Yugoslav Government wished the whole world to know what it is doing in Trieste there was no secret about it. Commissar Storka said that so far the Yugoslav call-up in Trieste was not compulsory.

It covered men between seventeen and fifty. It might become compulsory soon, as the Yugoslavs could recognise no differentiation between the inhabitants of Trieste. He confirmed that the whole Civic Guard had been arrested. "They guarded bridges for the Germans while the latter burnt our villages in Istria last autumn," he added. Commissar Storka said the food situation was serious.

He referred me to the Economic Commission in the former fascio. where a young man and secretary outlined the situation theoretically. Two envoys had been sent to the Padua Liberation Committee to ask for flour. The result of this mission will be extremely interesting, since if it were successful, it would be the first link between Yugoslavia and Italy since the Yugoslav occupation of Trieste. JAPAN AND GERMAN' SURRENDER "Violation of Pact" A strong protest against the German surrender offer was made by Togo, the Japanese Foreign Minister, in Tokio yesterday, said the Japanese News Agency (quoted by Reuter).

For Germany to conclude peace with the Anglo-Americans with whom Japan was engaged in a itter struggle would constitute a flagrant violation of the agreement between Japan and Germany not to conclude a separate peace," said Togo. Should such a state of affairs in Germany be confirmed Japan will reserve her freedom to deal with the Tripartite Pact and other political agreements with Germany from a uew point of view," be added. BRITISH BOMBARD RYUKYUS Battleships and cruisers of the British Pacific Fleet bombarded airfields on Miyako Island, in the Saki-shima group of the Southern Ryukyus, according to a communique from Admiral Nimitz's Headquarters last night. The British warships inflicted considerable damage and destroyed 18 Jaoanese 'planes. One major British unit was damaged" by Japanese "planes but resumed operations.

American Navy search 'planes, sweep-fhe Tsushima and Korea Straits and caostal water south-east of Korea, sank or damaged 20 Japanese shins on Saturday. Heavy United States Pacific Fleet units and aircraft heavily bombarded Japanese positions on Southern Okinawa. Japanese 'planes raided American snips at Okinawa on Saturday and Sunday, slightly damaging one light surface unit. Reuter. FRENCH ASK FRANCO TO EXPEL LAVAL A French Government statement, quoted by Paris radio, made it clear yesterday that the Government asked not for the extradition of Laval, now in Spain, but for his expulsion into France.

The Spanish Foreign Minister yesterday told a conference of Allied journalists that fhe Spanish Government desired the Allies to take charge of Laval as soon as possible, as he could not remain in Spain. Laval will be banded over to the Allies jointly. Reuter and Associated Press. names, so to speak, in his pocket. It was possibly the knowledge that such willing co-operators existed in Poland that prompted the suggestions that were approved at Yalta Of subsequent "negotiations" between these underground Poles and the Russians we have only the evidence of Mr.

Arciszewski's Government. An impartial observer would probably credit that evidence, but whether it is accurate or not js of no great importance, since the gravity of the present situation is that Poles who had British and American support are to be tried in Russia. GENERAL OKULICKI That this trial, if it is to be, may be centred round General Okulicki is evi dent from the special references to him in the official Tass communique, which place an entirely arbitrary importance on him. That he was included in the delegation has never, as Tass maintains, been withheld' from the British press. His name was printed in all the reports in this country in March, and it was assumed that he was attached to a party of politicians because it had been understood that the Russians wished to discuss the status of the disbanded home army, of which he had been commander.

The Polish issue has hung over San Francisco like a thundercloud. It is a black cloud, but it is in a large sky, and, though it may seem unfortunate that the conference should have been so overcast, the impression of the Polish problem and tragedy upon an international gathering gives perhaps a sense of proportion. At San Francisco Mr. Molotov has shown that he is prepared to go a long way in international co-operation, but not all the way. The road closes on Eastern Europe (and perhaps in other areas neighbouring Russia), whose problems Russia is approaching, not by mutual consultation but in her own separate and individual way.

Russia is not alone in thinking of spherical solutions, but she is forcing on her selected sphere, perhaps for economic reasons as much as any, a political solution that might have come to her as a natural movement, thus making security doubly sure. Moscow that the group had been using illegal radio transmitters," it is ex plained in Polish quarters here that these transmitters had bp en sent from Great Britain some time ago to enable the Polish underground movement acting against Germany to maintain contact with General Sikorski's Cabinet and succeeding Governments as well as witn tne Allied authorities generally. It is recalled that the members of this delegation had been Invited to meet the representative of the Soviet Government, General Ivanov, on March 26, and that they were first promised by the General a 'plane which should take some of the delegates to London, where they might consult the Polish Government and members of the political parties here before consenting to negotiate with Moscow. The charge of sabotage made is called in the Polish statement "a complete fabrication." ARREST OF DR. FRANK The Polish Government, I understand, is to apply to the Allied Governments to hand over to the Polish courts Dr.

Frank, the Governor of Cracow and all parts of Poland, who is placed as war criminal No. 1 on the Polish list of German war criminals, numbering several thousand. Polish quarters maintain that he should be tried by a Polish court News has reached here of the arrest in Cracow of Dr Ludwik Kiernik, a Peasant leader and several times member of the Cabinet under Mr. Witos, the Peasant leader. Mr.

Witos, however, is reported to be free. tText of the statement tuned in San Francisco breaking off the Polish talks, a dispatch from our jipecial Correspondent, and a Moscow eomntmiqiis on page fl REPARATIONS TO FRANCE Demand for Saar Mines From oar own Correspondent Paris, May 6. The Foreign Affairs Commission of the Consultative Assembly examined the question of policy towards Germany during three long sessions last week. The Commission unanimously rejected the idea of a Rhenish westphalian State, but advocated international management of the Ruhr industries and the establishment of the Rhineland as an international security zone, both the Rhineland and the Ruhr to be by an international force. The Commission unanimously demanded that the Saar should become the French Republic's property, but only by a majority that the Saar district should be annexed to France with the right of option for the Inhabitants.

The minority disapproved of the idea of the incorporation of any Germans in France and proposed an international regime for the Saar as for the rest of the Rhineland. The commission favoured the use cf German prisoner labour in French reconstruction as part of the account for reparations and called for the creation of an Inter-Allied Reparations Committee. The commission asked for inclusion In the armistice terms the handing over to the Allies of food stocks and raw materials and the restoration of stolen Industrial material, rolling stock, agricultural machinery, and cattle: "OFFER TO SURRENDER LUFTWAFFE" Twsjrrr-nRST Army Group Headquarters, Mat 6. Two German air generals have offered the surrender of the entire German Air Force to Field. Marshal British United surrender on all fronts is rapidly approaching.

Simultaneous announcement of the news of the final capitula tion will be made in London, Washington, and Moscow. Mr. Churchill will probably announce viutory in Europe in a brief broadcast He will simply tell tne nation mat the Govern ment can now inform them that the German war is over. There seems to be a constitutional point that the Government and not the King should take the responsibility of declaring the decision. THE KING'S BROADCAST Mr.

Churchill will not make a broad cast speech of any length. He feels strongly that V.E.-Day is an occasion for the King. At 9 p.m. the King will be at the microphone. This will be the great peace declaration broadcast.

The King will no doubt survey the histx-ic achievements of the United Nations forces on land and 'sea and in the air. If the House of Commons is sitting when the news comes Mr. Churchill will make a short speech to the Com' mons, hut nothing in the nature of a review of events. This will be followed by congratulatory speeches from Mr, Arthur Greenwood. Sir Percy Harris, and other party leaders.

If, however, the news should come when the House is not meeting the question of whether or not a special sitting should be summoned would arise. That might be difficult if the news came much after midday. Present arrangements are that Parliament does not meet to-day, but assembles at 2 15 n.m. to-morrow. Should it be impossible to call a special meeting when the news breaks, then undoubtedly MP.s will assemble on the following day.

Parliament will move congratulatory addresses to the King on the triumph of his arms, and there will also be resolutions of thanks to the forces for their great achievements in these fateful years. Mr. Churchill himself intends to move this vote of thanks. Mr. A.

V. Alexander. First Lord of the Admiralty, had to cancel an engagement to speak at Sheffield last night, as important events demanded his atten tion in Liondon. KING IN LONDON The King and Queen returned to Buckingham Palace last evening by car from "Windsor Castle, where they had spent the week-end. The King is due, according to present arrangements, to hold an Investiture at the Palace to-morrow morning.

RUSSIANS CAPTURE BALTIC ISLAND Berlin Still Burning Moscow, May 6. Stalin, in an Order of the Day to Marshal Rokossovsky to-night, said Troops of the Second' White Russian Front forced the Stralsund Fahrwasser and captured, on the island of Riigen, the towns of Bergen. Garz, Putbus, Sassnitz, and to-day completely captured the island of Rugen. i An iron Soviet order has been estab-. lished in Berlin.

Germans crowd round the proclamations pasted on the walls by the Soviet Command to find out what they have to do. Workers, officials and engineers are given their assignments and begin under Russian orders on the problems of reconstruction. Berlin is still burning. At night fires which are being allowed to burn themselves out in the hopelessly devastated sections of the city cast a glow which can be seen beyond the outskirts. Reuter.

HIMMLER AND DACHAU Ordered Extermination of Every Inmate Himmler ordered the evacuation of Dachau concentration camp on April 14 and the extermination of every one of its inmates, rather than allow the camp's human testimony to Nazi inhumanity to fall into the bands of the Allies, an official statement from Sixth Army Group headquarters announced last night. The commander of Dachau suggested to Himmler that the camp should be turned over to the Allies, according to documents captured by General Patch's Seventh Army. Himmler replied that the camp should not be handed over, and the document which bore his signature ended "No prisoners shall be allowed to fall into the hands of the enemy alive. Prisoners nave oenaved barbarously to the civilian nooulatlon of Buehenwald." Associated Press. DR.

FRANK CAPTURED Dr. Frank, the former Governor General of Poland, has been captured in theBerchtesgadenareaJ He slashed his wrists in an attempt to commit suicide. The Polish Government1 has placed him at the top of their list of war criminals. An official French communique, quoted by Paris radio. naiA the fnrmvr German Crown Prince Wilhelm, son of me -naiser, nas oeen captured by French troops.

The ex-Crown Prince, who is 63. is the second of the ex-Kaiser's sons to be captured by the Allies. The first was Prince August Wilhelm. 40,000 GERMAN TROOPS CROSS THE ELBE Taxgermttxde. May 6.

Germany's Twelfth Army fought a bitter delaying action against the Russians in order to surrender to the American Ninth Army. More than 40,000 trapped German soldiers crossed the Elbe in 36 hours. Associated Press. London, Sunday. The arrest of the Polish underground leaders by the Soviet authorities after they had been invited to negotiate for the reorganisation of the Lublin Provisional Government has caused a most profound shock to Poles here.

Premier Arczisewski conferred with the President and members of the Cabinet, and to-day an official statement was issued. At the same time the Polish Government is preparing a memorandum which is to be submitted to the Allied Governments, probably to-morrow, giving all the details of the invitation to these leaders. In the official statement issued to-day, the Polish Government makes it clear that all the leaders arrested were member of the Resistance Movement who had all the time been active against Germany. General Okuhcki, who succeeded General Bor after the Warsaw rising is the only military person in tne group. au nthar members, the Polish Gov ernment declares, are representatives of the leariinir Polish oarties who had been appointed by the parties at home and had been aoprovea oi ay tne trousa Government, first bv General Sikorski.

later by Mr. Mikolajczyk and also by the present Premier. These party leaders had been known to favour a compromise with Russia and on no account cauld be accused of acting against the Soviet Umon. The charges made in the Russian communique are described in the Polish offlcal statement as wholly unfounded" As regards the accusation issued from LISBON GERMANS, IN TEARS Hitler Service Scenes Lisbon, Mat 6. The German Catholic Church in Lisbon was crowded to-day when members of the German community attended a memorial service for Hitler.

Many wept when Mgr. Wurzer, the chaplain, spoke of Hitler as having perished in what be called the knightly fight against the advancing flood of Bolshevism." If Germans pray bard enough and work hard enough the tide will one day be driven back and the great deeds of the German Fuhrer and the people of this generation will be matched by those who come after them." Reuter. PORTUGAL'S MOVE German Government No Longer Recognised" The Portuguese Government has informed the German Minister in Lisbon that Portugal no longer recognises the German Government, according -to the Portuguese overseas radio last night A dispatch from Lisbon says that all German diplomatic and official property has been seized by the Portuguese Government. The German Legation, Consulate, and other official buildings have been 'sealed and placed under guard. Reuter.

THREE GERMAN AIRMEN FLY TO EIRE Three German airmen landed at Gormanstown, County Meath, on Saturday morning. They bad flown from Aalborg. Denmark, and landed about a mile from the shores of Drogbeda Bay. The three men, who arrived in one 'plane, were all airmen, one being a sergeant hi the Luftwaffe and the others of lower rank. It is understood that they have been interned.

Prague radio, which had been silent since about 1 p.m. on Saturday, resumed about six hours later with a musical programme, and then broadcast an appeal in English for help for the Czech patriots. This is Prague calling," said the announcer. German tanks are moving against the Czech armies. We want airborne help.

This is Prague. Czechoslovakia." The radio called on the Czech population to put obstacles in the way of German tanks moving on the high road from Benesov towards Prague. All S.S. formations and German Wehr-macht troops in Bohemia and Moravia were called on to surrender in statements, announced as signed by the Czechoslovak National Council, broadcast at 11.45 on Saturday night by a station calling itself Czechoslovak Radio. A statement "made in Czech, German, English, and Russian, said: "The Protectorate-of Bohemia and Moravia no longer exists.

The power of the German authorities has ceased. The greater part their representatives is in the hands of the Czechoslovak army. Cease resistance immediately. It you surrender you will be dealt with as prisoners of war in accordance with international law. if vou don't surrender you will be considered as bandits and dealt with accordingly." A broadcast in English.

Russian and Czech said "Prague is in Czech hands. Several groups of resistance have been encircled and are being liquidated. In nrrtff tn sneed tin liauidation we need tank units and aircraft At 1 a.m. yesterday a communique Ucnof) Viv the Czechoslovak National Council stated that a group of German tanks which penetrated into Pankrac (a suburb of Prague) was destroyed by Czech soldiers. It was added that several parts of Prague would purposely be illuminated, but that the interior of buildings and flats must be kept blacked-out.

An urgent appeal was broadcast to all chemists and doctors to deliver immediately to one orthopaadic clinic in Prague tetanus serum for wounded Czech fighters. Another appeal was directed to all bakers and bakery workers to continue their work. Another broadcast described as from Prague Military Headquarters said "To all units, cease fire and regroup immediately. Remain where your and await further orders. The fighting troops are nart of the Regular Army.

Every combatant must be marked by the tricolour or a band in the national colours-" "TRUCE BROKEN Prague later broadcast a message to the German commander stating that canitulation talks bad been going on and that the Germans had broken their word and were concentrating forces against Prague. Another broadcast called upon the people of Prague to put portraits of President Benes tneir windows, aHHinir "The Protectorate has fallen. the Republic has Deen restored. German resistance is broken, ijong live President Benes. Long live Marshal At si am.

yesterday an urgent message addressed to the commandant of the German forces, read: "Despite the agreement about the cessation of -hostilities and the cessation of troop movements in order to negotiate the capitulation, German troops laying siege to the National Bank have broken the truce. We categorically demand that the German commandant shall recall the forces from the National Bank and keep to the agreement, otherwise the armed Czech forces wJl go into action. At 2 20 a series of dramatic calls for help was broadcast. The announcer's voice was heard desperately shouting Calling all Allied armies. We need -urgent help.

Send your 'planes and tanks: The Germans are advancing on For the Lord's sake send help." This "was repeated several times. There are too many Germans. We need guns. The Germans are coming from south, west, east, and north, we are fighting in all parts and all districts. Help us HelD us Three announcers one with an American accent, the second with an English accent, and the third speaking Russian, alternated with irantic appeals for help.

CALL TO RED ARMY At 3 18 a.m. an order in the name of a Russian officer was broadcast in Russian asking for paratroops and fighter 'planes from the Red Army. "We ask for urgent parachute reinforcements. Land at the Olshanka Cemetery. The signal will be a triangle.

We need guns, fighter 'planes. This is an order from Senior Lieutenant Sokolov." At 4 15 a Russian-speaking announcer said The whole of Prague is in the hands of the Czech National Committee, which represents the Czechoslovak Government in Kosice. German tanks are surrounding Prague from all sides. We ask for immediate help, bringing arms and 'planes. We will defend Prague witn an our strengtn.

we win not yield Prague to the German invaders." This announcement was repeated in English. A Russian broadcast on Prague radio at 4 45 a.m. said that the radio station was being shelled, and listeners in London could clearly hear detonations in the background The announcer said: "The Prague radio station is under heavy fire from German artillery. We turn to you imploring you for Help us immediately. We need guns and 'planes.

Every minute is costly." Five minutes later a Czech announcer added a series of instructions to patriots and the civilian population. He told civilians to stay indoors and keep their windows shut, adding, Help is not far away. At 9 a.m. yesterday Prague radio reported We have just learned that American tank units at 8 30 a.m. to-day completed the occupation of Pilsen, and have now set out on the march towards Prague." BRITISH PRISONERS' APPEAL Before this announcement Prague had broadcast an appeal for assistance to the British and American armies by two men describing themselves as liberated British prisoners of war.

We are here in Prague assisting the partisans to clear the city of the. Germans, who are surrendering to us in thousands," they said. But there are 300 German tanks round the city and we have not the weapons to fight against these." One of the men gave his name as Joseph Gregg. Yesterday afternoon Prague No. 1 radio station, which was apparently controlled by the Germans, stated that the station Prague No.

2 and the station Boehmen were in the hands of the partisans. It was from the radio station Boehmen. renamed Melnik. that patriot messages had been heard in London on Saturday night Prague No. 1 station stated last night that "in view of the strength of the resisting Czech group the German authorities have decided to nut considerable forces into action to restore calm and order." It added that unrest arising out of political developments" had inierruoted negotiations between the German authorities and the Czech Protectorate Government, and issued a warninr aeainst "distorted state ments' from the other Prague trans mitter.

Reuter. DONITZ STILL TRYING TO SEPARATE ALLIES Konrad Henlein, Gauleiter of the Sudetenland and a leading figure in the Czech crisis of 1938. in a broadcast to the Sudetenland last night said that Admiral Donitz was still struggling- to persuade the Allies to accept the proposal for surrender to the Western Allies only. We can be grateful to him that he is doing' everything to save us from becoming a prey to the wantonness of Asiatic hatred against civilisation." Reuter..