Jap Suicide Pilot
Crashes Hospital Ship
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Seventy Army division captured
the northern half of Machinato
airfield on the west coast of Oki
nawa. The Seventh Division in
fantry seized high ground near
Kochi village on the east coast
and continued southward. Gener
al advances were made all along
the line.
The* casualties aboard the Com
fort were twenty-nine killed and
thirty-three wounded, and one
missing, including passengers al
ready wounded in the Okinawa
campaign and the hospital ship’s
crew. At least one other Allied
hospital ship, an australian vessel,
has been attacked in the Pacific
by the Japanese. That occurred
nearly a year ago and the loss of
life there was much heavier.
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U.S. Navy Shells
Jap Positions
In Davao
| MANILA, April 29—</P>—Light
; U. S. naval units appearing for the
first itme in Davao Gulf shelled
Japanese shore installations on
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| Davao Saturday as two infantry
1 divisions drove toward the big
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, Mindanao island port by road The
' airfield on the western shore of
Davao Gulf south of Digos was
seized by the Yanks Twenty
fourth division and quickly put
i into operatioft by United States
infantrymen within twenty-five
miles of Davao City by highway,
after a sweep across southern
Mindanao from the Moro beach
head.
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Russian Tanks
Smash Into Berlins
Tiergarten
LONDON, April 30—Rus
sian tanks smashed into the Tier
garten, Berlin‘s Central Park,
which has been converted into an
underground fortress, the Nazi '
controlled Oslo radio said. Mos- |
cow reports said the fall of the
capital was imminent.
The newspaper Pravda said the
Russians were fighting in the
ruins of Unter Den Linden, the
spacious avenue in the heart of
Berlin which terminates at the
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Tiergarten. Earlier Moscow dis
patches said the Russians are ap
proaching the spacious park.
1 Hamburg radio, the chief Nazi
j transmitter still broadcasting in
Germany, proclaimed “the hard
battle for Berlin reached its cli
max today.” Moscow dispatches
j said Marshal Zhukov Konev, com
1 manding the Red armies in Ber
I lin is going all out to make a May
, Day victory and has thrown in
1 the maximum artillery and air
I power to reduce Nazi strongholds
! in the center of the city.
Soviet dispatches from Berlin
i said the Nazis were hemmed into
I
I a very small area made up rough
1 ly of the Tiergarten Reichstag
I distinst just to its north Wilhelm
j strasse administrative quarters,
i the most crowded commercial dis
trict centered in Unter Den Lin
j den and running east from the
, Tiergarten.
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