German Force In
Italy Practically
Eliminated
ROME, Aprli 30—(JP)—General
Clark, Fifteenth Army group
commander announced the virtual
end of the long bloody campaign
in Italy declaring the German
armies in Italy “had been virtual
ly eliminated as a military force’*
said twenty-five enemy divisions
had been torn to pieces in a twen
ty-two day offensive by the U.S.
Fifth and the British Eighth
armies. He said the Germans “can
no longer effectively resist our
armies,” but added that scattered
fighting may continue.
Three of Italy’s greatest cities:
Milan, Venice and Genoa, are in
Allied hands. The Fifth Army
seized Milan where the bodies of
executed Mussolini and his seven
Fascist comrades lay, while other
American troops dashed into the
important port of Genoa which
was liberated two days earlier.
Italian patriots and the British
captured Venice. A Belgrade
broadcast recorded by F.C.C. said
Yugoslav partisan troops had en
tered the port of Trieste. The Al
lied communique said the Ger
mans were fighting desperately
to the north of Lake Garda near
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Brenner Pass, but said the enemy
lines were disorganized. Gen.
Clark said more than one hun- 1
dred twenty thousand prisoners
had been taken. The thrust in
northern Italy swept ahead so
rapidly it was difficult to main
tain communications.
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Allies Battle Hard
For Control
Of Munich
PARIS, April 30—The Ameri
can Ninth Army established an
other contact with the Russians
three miles west of Wittemberg,
creating a small new untenable
German pocket between their
diminishing northern and south
ern redoubts.
A hard battle is in progress in
the South for Munich, birthplace
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of the Nazi party, the largest Ger
man city yet entered by Ameri
cans. The new junction east of
Dessau at Apoollendorf, fifty-one
miles northwest of Reisa in the
Dresden-Leipzig area where the,
Russians and the American First1
Army first met and cut Germany
in two. American forces are now
released for other duties by the
new meeting.
Five divisions of the American
Seventh Army, probably seventy
thousand men in all, are engaged
in a stiff battle on the fringes of
Munich where Hitler staged his
abortive putsch in the beer hall
back in 1923.
The Nazis resisted a curtain of
steel hurled from batteries of
anti-aircraft, levelled as field ar
tillery of the forty-second, forty
fifth, third, fourth and twentieth
armored divisions bored the Ba
varian capital from the northwest
despite the murderous fire of the
Germans.
Another junction is imminent
between the American Third
army and the Russian Seventh
army to the south. They have
moved to within thirteen miles of
Innsbruck and thirty-three miles
of Brenner Pass and about one
hundrde twenty-five miles of the
Allied armies in Italy.
Joining the Ninth Army the
Russian forces accompanied by a
last minute rush terrorized the
Germans attempting to flee across
the Elbe into American lines
southeast of Barry. Patrols going
back and forth from the Elbe for
the past ten days have twice been
halted by accepting too many
German prisoners.
Indications at Supreme Head
quarters are that the hostilities in
Europe can last at most only a
matter of days. High ranking Nazi
survivors are reported seeking
peace while the western Allies
drove swiftly toward the northern
and southern redoubts the notori
ous Dachau concentration camp
ner Munich was captured and
thirty-two thousand political and
religious prisoners were freed.
The Third Army crossed the Isar
river and beat down the last sixty
five miles toward Salzburg and
seventy miles from Berchtesgaden
the headquarters of the Alpine
hideaway .The British breached
the lower Elbe River and advanc
ed to within twenty miles of East
' Hamburg.
The Oslo radio, one of the last
remaining mouthpieces of the
Reich, said Patton was approach
ing Linz on the Danube from the
west and Marshal Tolbukhin was
driving on from the east. The
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last week but have been operat
ing under partial'security black
outs.
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production of perfumes.
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