Sherbrooke daily record, 29 mars 1945, jeudi 29 mars 1945

[" JtyecbcookelMu TRecciid THE PAPER OF THE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS WEATHER Cloudy and Coolaf Established 1897.SHERBROOKE.QUEBEC.THURSDAY.MARCH 29, Forty-Ninth Year.ALLIED TROOPS 142 MILES FROM BERLIN RACE THROUGH WIDE BREAK IN GERMAN UNES Montgomery\u2019s Swift Advance Necessitates News SUPPORT GIVEN U.S.9th Army Troops Crash Through Port of Duisburg While Other Units Capture Hoizhause in Drive to Link Up With British.Paris, March 29.\u2014(&)\u2014British and American troops racing today through a wide break in German lines north of the Ruhr were reported menacing Hannover, 142 miles from Berlin, while United States 1st Army shock troops raced to a point 207 miles southwest of the Capital.Duisburg in the Ruhr ran up the white flag.All of Frankfurt-on-the-Main except the northern outskirts was captured by the United States 3rd Army, whose advance troops operating in echelon with the 1st Army moved eastward to within 214 miles of Berlin.Hamborn, Weisbaden, Tanau, Aschaffenburg and the northern half of Mannheim fell to Gen.Eisenhower\u2019s victory-flushed armies fighting up to 145 miles deep in Germany.The full extent of the advances in Westphalia was hidden by a security blackout, but Red Nordness, AP correspondent, said Muenster, Osnabrueck and Hannover all were threatened by the sweeping gains outflanking the Ruhr to the north.Several défendable rivers were crossed easily.Hannover is 112 miles from last publishable British positions on the approaches to Muenster, capital of Westphalia.Blackout ^LEGATION TO SAN FRANCISCO HOUR OF SUCCESS NEAR London, March 29\u2014W)\u2014Prime Minister Churchill declared today that the \u201chour of success\u201d is near.Western Canada infantry were ¦fighting against stern German resistance in the Rhine bank town of Emmerich, on the Allied left flank, but the security blackout prevented additional -word of Canadian progress.The nearest 1st Army approach to Berlin was at Amoeneburg, 85 miles beyond the Rhine and 255 from Russian siege lines in the east.The 1st and 3rd armies scored advances of twenty miles or more overnight, capturing the important Lahn River traffic centre of Marburg, without opposition.The 7th Army, fighting 38 miles east of the Rhine on a solid front with the 3rd and 1st Armies, virtually encircled the last defenders of Mannheim by crossing the Neckar River near that chemical centre.The 7th also crossed the Main south of Aschaffenburg at points east of Schweinheim and Niedernberg.British and American armored battle teams north of the Ruhr raced 20 miles across the Westphalian Plains to the approaches of Muenster in exploiting a break-through so thoroughly that Field Marshal Montgomery imposed strict security si BOMBARDING OF RYUKYU ISLANDS Battleships Prolong Attacks But no Report on Enemy Declaration that U.S.Soldiers Have Already Landed on Islands.Guam, March 29.\u2014(iP)\u2014Some of the United States Navy\u2019s biggest battleships prolonged their attack on the Ryukyu Islands, between Japan their weapons and quit outright as and Formosa through Wednesday, the Rhine city hung out the white .\t, ^ J , t ^ \u2019 f[ag.\tI\tplanes and 19\tor more\tships,\tthree At Amoenburg, Lt.-Gen.Hodges\u2019:\twere des^ro^ers or des^l'°P Pasl'.res,l'ra'nl's would go and unreracing armor was 95 miles southeast ! ^ escorts.\t.strained savagery, equipped with of Muenster and in position to curl That made eleven days of action'new jnd frightful weapons, would around the whole outflanked Ruhr- for the carrier group between Japan | essential to German war economy\u2014\t, ,, t, i\tj/v i \u201e L All snouia nope, I think, that the and trap its myriad defenders* in an(* Byukyus and ffve days of j San Francisco Conference will reconjunction with the 21st Army,sur:face bombardment as announced suit in an effective agreement.,, Group racing across the Westphalian ! in fleet\tcommuniques.\tTokyo said1\t^r;\tdirected\tsections\tof\this flats-\ti\tcarrier\tplanes\tattacked\tthe\tnaval LsLeenr,r^S.dlpafc\ttwo.\tPa^ies\tof , p \u2014f* \u201e\t, T .\t,\t.;the Opposition, Progressive Conser- base at Kure on Honshu Island early .vatives and the Quebec Independ- today and that others hit Kyushu, ; ents.southernmost of the main Japanese\tappealed to the latter not to islands, yesterday.There was no v.0*-e against the conference resolu-confirmation.\tjtion and; if _ necessary, to abstain The Japanese said the Americans -r'0T> voting in order that the world landed on the Kerama group nearp'W0ldd n0^ get the impression that Okinawa Island, principal unit in a.ny Pa.rt °f Canada was against par-the Ryukyu chain, Sunday.One of ticipation in the international or-these reports added that active land Kanization for peace.He warned fighting had not yet started.Anoth- them that if they did not vote for er said savage battles were under- the resolution they would not he ex- 1,100 CAPTIVES RELEASED FROM CAMP IN REICH Hodges also was 152 miles west of Liepzig, Germany\u2019s fifth city, and 255 from Russian lines.His troops and those of the 3rd Army formed three more linkups west of falling Frankfurt-on-the-Main, a city more than half captured.The Armies also joined hands at Kamberg and Idstein, southeast of Limburg.German lines everywhere were Diet, Including 290 Ameri cans.Show Evidence of Ill-Treatment at Hands of Germans.were hiding the full extent of tri umphs in the hartland of thq staggering enemy country.Lt.-Gen.Patton\u2019s 4th Armored Division crashing along the Frankfurt-Leipzig superhighway advanced 19 miles and reached Gruenberg, 214 , miles from Berlin and 14 east of I captured Giessen.One prong of the) break-through division advanced eight miles northeast to near Bel- Heppenheim, Germany, March 29.\u2014(4P)\u2014Eleven hundred emaciated prisoners, including 290 wounded Americans so badly treated by their captors that they had lost an average of 35 pounds in weight, Avere freed from a Germany prison camp when the U.S.7th army infantry captured this toAvn a few days ago.No Canadians Avei way.Rhine stronghold already had fallen [tersham, south of the main Berlin- to 1st Army group forces,) Other Canadians had seized Issel.about a mile north of the captured toAvn of Rees.U.S.9th Army troops crashed through the Ruhr port of Duisburg, a city of 431,000, Avhich the German Army had abandoned.The aged and extremely young of the Volkssturm, Frankfurt superhighway.Frankfurt itself was all but conquered.More than half that ninth largest city of Germany\u2014a great chemical and electrical equipment producer as well as banking centre\u2014 was in 3rd Army hands.Nearby Hanau and Aschaffenburg were captured.Austrian Frontier Attained By Onrushing Soviet Troops YANKEE UNITS PUSH ON AFTER FALL OF CEBU pressing the feelings of their own constituents or of Canada as a whole.He objected to Progressive Conservative speeches on two grounds, that they misinterpreted his own words in attributing to him proposals regarding the organization of among those freed.The men related hoAv they had been fed on slow-starvation diet that\u2019 made it virtually impossible for the ; wounded to reco\\'er and caused some to lose as much as 100 pounds | in weight.An American Lieutenant eaid the | average daily diet was about 700 calories, in contrast to the 3,500-4,0'00-calory allotment for wounded men in American military hospitals.He said repeated protests to the camp commandant had met Avith the reply that the Germans just couldn\u2019t military forces for peace mainten-iget any more food for them.Mean- , , ,, while, the Germans ate potatoes and j fed the prisoners a thin soup madel from the peelings, the lieutenant added.It seems almoet a miracle that we ance which Avere not his, but those of the great powers and that they created the impression Canada was not willing to work in harmony with I the rest of the British Common- Second City of Philippines w^ith.Ffllk tn fimpriranç After Both these impressions, while rails 10 Americans ATieritbey could not cause any misunder-Brisk Two-Day Drive From Standing in Canada, would have a Beachhead on East Coast.Manila, March 28.\u2014LP)___United ^ proPosaIs would ^ re9uire Canada had only 10 deaths in two months,\u201d he said, \u201cbut Ave could have had even fewer if there had been food.\u201d An American private -who had The War Today By De WITT MACKENZIE Field Marshal Montgomery today clamped u news blackout on the Allied northern wing, thereby placing the whole erupt, ing Western Front under a cloak of intriguing mystery, though one which fortunately is pleasant enough in contemplation since we know it is merely for security reasons and conceals details of mounting victory over the Germans.One thing a news blackout can't hide, and of course isn\u2019t meant to conceal, is that Hitler's military machine and civil administration are in a state of rapid dissolution.They\u2019re like a dyke which gradually has been weakening until finally the rn>-aging waters tear a gap and the whole structure seems to dissolve in the Hood.Many kinds of Allied pressure arc responsible for this collapse \u2014 the power of the land, the sea, the air, a ast resources, moral fortitude and airtight morale.However, it\u2019s worthy of note that we now are seeing the cumulative effect of the British, Canadian and American bombing, which certainly has been a mighty factor in breaking the enemy.It\u2019s no exaggeration, 1 believe, to say that without this giant striking power, peace would still he years away instead of just round the corner.The development and application of Allied air strength has been one of the epics of the war.Only as far back as \u201942 Anglo-American bombing was just beginning to show potentialities.The world was aroused to possibilities by the first great 1,000-plane raid by the 1C A.F.\u2019s on Cologne\u2014a seven days\u2019 wonder.Later it developed that this was staged by Air Thief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris for the purpose of surprising thé Allied world into an understanding of what air pow er could do.The first great demonstration was in effect a plea for more bomber strength.In the fall of \u201942 when I spent much time Avith both Harris and Gen.Ira Laker, then head of U.S.bomber forces based in England, they Avere begging for more planes, Harris had used virtually everything he could make fly in order to stage the Cologne raid.The Allies were weak in air strength then, and really \u201cgot going\u201d in \u201943\u2014only two years ago.Since the big-time bombing of Germany has been under way there has been a steady and devastating hammering of Hitler\u2019s Avar potential.This natur-ally has increased as Allied air strength has grown until recently the Allies have had as many as 8,000 planes over Germany on more than one occasion.There have been the heavy bombers which have torn at strategic centres, and the lighter tactical planes that have dealt with communications and the fighting fronts.The air has blazed a great trail for the Allies.And today the Allied air fleets are right up front helping clear the way for the racing ground forces.Order for 250 Million Lbs, Z .\t-\u2014\u2014- cZctan?doonotorîd5ooSïLeglslature Defeats Motion Quebec company\u2019s Plant in j Housing Problem Be Studied Montreal, March 29.\u2014 (ffi\u2014A in Quebec, March 29.\u2014 -\u2014The j Ottawa, as asked for in a special! newly-placed United States contract ¦ ^.u,cc Legislature yesterday turn-|legislation adopted by the Legisla-for 250,000,000 pounds of Canadian ed doAvn by a 46-35 vote a motion ture at the beginning of the session ' \"fficipnt ! aluminum will create 1,000 to l,-|oî urgency\u2019 by Andre Laurendeau, jo00 nevv jobs\u201d at the Aluminum ipf°.Ylncia^ ,'eader 9^ Bloc Pop-Company of Canada, Ltd., plants in inlairo, asking that his motion on the BUFFALOES ON THE EAST BANK \u2014- Sent from London by radio, this British official photo-shoAvs Allied soldiers landing from their amphibious vehicles dubbed \"buffaloes\u201d on the east bank of the Rhine River at Wesel, Germany, in support of British Commandos.Canadian troops have been in this &i\u20aca and reports revealed that Roes a strategic area nearby had been cleared of enemy troops.German AssaultGn IPRESS SEARCH > \" FOR PUNE IN MID-ATUNTIC Rome, March 29.\u2014(TP)\u2014A German ! attack on British 8th Army positions near Cotignola, six miles north of | the Bologna-Rimini Highway strong-i hold of Faenza, was repulsed yester-.,,\t- -,\tI day as the rest of the Italian front Victims of Slow Starvation: remained relatively quiet.! Rain restricted visibility on the Allied 5th Army front to the south- | west.There was scattered German ; artillery fire in the forward areas of j this front, Avith patrol clashes re ported in the sector southwest Bologna.On the 5th Army\u2019s extreme left I Montreal, March 29\u2014®\u2014A wide search for the missing liberator \u201cComimando\u201d Avas continuing in mid-Atlantic today, while at head-\u201e quarters of No.45 group, R.A.F.of Transport Command at Dorval Airport, officials discounted a variety of rumors concerning the fate of the famous aircraft Avhich was carrying high British officials to Can- flank in the coastal sector an Allied combat patrol ran into heavy German defensive fire and was forced i * j\u2019a\u201c to withdraw.\t:11\u2018i- a i\t, ,\t1 Une report current here was that A naval communique reported new : it had been determiner! tvT»t k tt -r shelling of enemy positions on the ^ States trafisneT^^ i Un,t' Franco-Italian border during the gloried\t^ alS° WaS p,,:4.|.-L,lreP0Uecl missing m the same area -Dinisn at approximately the border week in which French and reported destroyers participated.FOR ALUMINUM PLACED BY U.S.\u201e same time as the Commando disappeared.The suggestion in the rumor was that the two planes had collided in mid-air and exploded, Transport Command officials said that the rumor had been \u201cthoroughly investigated\u201d and was without, foundation.Another theory was that the aircraft had come out of a cloud over a German U-boat and had been shot I down by anti-aircraft fire of the submarine.been held there for 3V2 months said: \u201cThe main part of our food was States troops pursued the Japanese ;t0 send fol'ces outside Canada at the | one loaf of bread a day for 10 into the hills north of Cebu City to-: c.ad t^le Security Council he had! For breakfast we had ersatz coffee, ; \u201e -T4-_ simnlv st.af.pH a fart.YpF.FVip rmnns- wit.Vinnf smrnr nv millr r,f rnnrccx London, March 29.\u2014(®\u2014The Red Army, smashing through the shattered defences of the Bratislava Gap in the Danube Valley, has reached places along the Austrian frontier, it was reported from Moscow- today.The big Stalin tanks and armored cars of Marshal Feodor Tol-bukhin\u2019s 3rd Ukrainian Army, smashing ahead from captured Csoma, hammered at the defences of Ramhagen, 39 miles southeast of Vienna, St.Johann on the frontier to the northeast and Monson (Wies-elburg), near the Danube t\\venty-one miles southeast of Bratislava, Moscow dispatches said.\u201cWhether the units which fought day, headquarters said, after that 'IplPk stated a fact.Vet the oppos-demolition-wrecked second city of .1\u2019-1011.^ad tried to read into it some the Phlippines was captured in a bolding back.The Dumbarton Oaks brisk two-day drive from the Am- proposals were that such commit-ericans\u2019 Cebu Island beachhead oi\twould be embodied in later the east coast.\tagreements.Troops inside the city fought scattered battles along heaA-ily-mined streets, but for the most part the enemy w-as reported to have abandoned well-prepared defences and fled.The important harbor area was taken virtually intact.Capture of the city was preceded by an attack of midget submarines1 on American shipping off the Cebu beachhead, about five miles south of the capital.The tiny underseas craft had struck during daylight Moson is twenty miles northwest of captured Gyor.The fall of Gyor and Komarom on the Danube twenty miles east of Gyor, announced yesterday by Marshal Stalin, shattered the key defences of the Bratislava Gap in the Danube Valley.In between the three strongpoints under attack, tanks, armored cars and cavalry cut behind one group of Germans after another.Marshal Rodion Malinovsky's 2nd\t___.Ukrainian Army was moving along j Monday, forcing ail unbeached shipc the southern side of tne Danube | ^ p-jt to sea.where they remained toward Bratisia\\-a from Gyor m'untji the next morning, co-ordination with Toloukhin._ j xhe Americans, who have libera- SoA-iet bombers pounded the forti- ; ted eleven other towns in the island, fled junctions of vVinden.Neusiedl, !drove the Japanese northward from Parndorf and Brack, between Lake obu City while the supporting Far, He pointed out that federal authorities were now asking the pop-, ulation to register their children so that they may receive their allowances from July 15 on.Mr.Duplessis said that following adoption of the Provincial Family \u201e\ta brief de- Allowance legislation, he had writ- For dinner Ave had soup made of;(hle to a shortage of coal, the an- bate on the question of Family ten OttaAva and sent along a copy potato peelings.At night we had, »°»ncement said.Electricity needed Allowances, scheduled to be paid byj°f the sanctioned bill \u201cand we have more thin soup, sometimes with a produce aluminum generated , Ottawa, from July 15 on.\tj the right to believe that Ottawa will email piece of potato in it, but never from available power at the Ship-; When Mr.Laurendeau rose to in- 'n w\u2018th the wishes expressed by Quebec, it was announced here last night.The contract was placed in Can- housing problem in the province be considered immediately.Premier Duplessis and Leader ada as United States production will iAdelard Godbout of the Liberal Oo- without sugar or milk, of course, c insufficient to meet the demand position also joined in j-_ a- - .1\t,\t-\t1\tthe question any meat or vegetables.\u201d their way to the frontier planned cO Neusiedler and the Danube.Bruck : Eastern air force tore into enemy remain or whether these were scout ing groups feeling out the strength of the much-heralded fortified zone is not knowm,\u2019\u2019 said one dispatch.\u2018There are no indication?that any of these tanks and armored cars actually crossed the frontier into Austria.\u2019\u2019 Pamhagen is forty miles south of is.365 miles southeast of Gen.lines of communication.Eisenhower\u2019s front at Aschaffenburg.It is good tank country and there was a possibility that Tolbukhin, lunging ahead in his characteristic style.Avould surge straight west into the mountains toward the big border cities of Godenburg and Szombathely Bratislava and seventeen miles west and the Austrian centre of Graz and of Osorna.It is just inside the Aus- \u2018 cut the main communication lines trian frontier fifteen miles ihe stronghold of Sporon east of out of Yugoslavia and Northeastern ing the China at the ; Italy.\tj freighters, some A communique said fighting on Luzon Island had abated in the central and southern sector* because of the enemy's \u201cgreat losses which cannot be replaced.\u201d Japanese resistance is becoming \u201cdisconnected and sporadic\u201d in those areas but remains strong in the north and around Baguio and across the valley-near the Balete Pass.Bombers rang-Sea sank seven of them used as southern end of Neusiedler lake.He was about 65 miles from Graz, transports, and smashed 16 other», | WAR BULLETINS Stockholm\u2014The Free Danish Press Service said today that Danish patriots had blasted the bridge connecting Copenhagen with Amger Island, blockading a \u201cgreat number\u201d of Danish ships requisitioned by the Germans to be sent to Baltic ports for evacuation of enemy civilians and soldiers.* « * \u2022 * With the U.S.1st Army \u2014 Seriously-wounded American prisoners of war were reported today being jammed into boxcars by the Germans and evacuated from hospitals in the path of the 1st Army\u2019s advance.« \u2022 \u2022 * \u2022 Paris \u2014 A security blackout over the entire 21st Army group\u2019s break-through area at the north end of the flaming Rhine river front was ordered today by Field Marshal Montgomery.***** London \u2014 Tokyo radio said Kyushu, southernmost of the major group of Japanese home islands, was a target of aerial bombardment again early today.shaAV, S'hawinigan and Beauharnois'troduce his motion, Speaker Tache p ii- , \u2022\t,1\t.iimmediately pointed out that rulings (At Washington today, it was :0f the Assembly did not alloAv'a said the new contract was placed in member to discuss ahead of time a Canada despite the fact that half the motion already inscribed on the or- United States aluminum production capacity is idle, and that such placement was the result of manpenver shortages there and an under-estimate of the supplies necessary for prosecution of the war.) der paper and that he himself, besides Wilfrid Hamel (L-St.Sauveur) had inscribed such motions.Mr.Hamel interrupted to say he : was ready to withdraw his motion Previous* United States contracts ^\"Ch