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was the last enemy toehold on the east bank of the Oder between the eastern ‘approaches of Berlin and the Baltic. i The Free Austrian radio said the villages captured by the Russians southeast of Vienna were in Burgenland, Austria’s easternmost province. First across the Austrian border

Nazis Mdy Fight ;

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ing are not members of the Elite 8. 8, or the gestapo, or hardened first line units of the Reichswehr, They are volksturmers, volksgrenadiers and other makeshift troops which provide some of the bulk but none of the quality of what remains of the German army.

= = o IT IS nevertheless a fatal weakness which should soon result in

was Marshal Feodor I. Tolbukhin's | 3d Ukrainian army group, the sta- | tion said. Tolbukhin's forces were only nine miles from the border and 45 miles from Vienna late yes-| terday, advancing across northwest | Hungary against spasmodic resistance, “It was believed that armored) units may have reached the border | by this morning,” a United Press| dispatch from Moscow said. | Doubt Drive Will Stop There appearell little prospect] that the disorganized, retreating Germans could halt the Russian |

- drive, even at Vienna's last ditch|

defense line anchored on Lake Neusiedler, the Hungarian town of | Sopron and Bratislava, capital of | Slovakia. The defense line curves to within |

"20 miles of Vienna.

(The OWI said a dispatch in the| Swedish Svenska Dagbladet re-| ported that .a state of emergency had been declared in Vienna and the city’s outer fortifications) alerted) _ | For to the north, medieval Danzig | on the Baltic appeared about to] fall to another Soviet army group, ! the 2d White Russian. |

an allied drive across the waist of central Germany, isolating the northern and. southern .portions. The last resistance—and it may be bitter and prolonged—is expected to come in the mountains of Bavaria and Austria. The port cities of the Baltic and North seas also may be the last-ditch battlegrounds.

n 5 ” CIVILIAN resistance and the kind of relentless guerrilla warfare which has been pictured by

Nazi propagandists is not likely

elsewhere in Germany. In the territory already overrun, the populace has shown itself all too eager to “co-operate” and prove themselves “good Germans.” Boasts of Josef Goebbels and others that Germans even obeying orders of allied occupation authorities would invariably be murdered, have not materialized to any great extent. The promised reign of terror has so far been mpstly & myth. : The assassination of the alliedappointed mayor of Aachen probably was engineered by gestapo agents in the hope that the example would be followed -elsewhere.

BUT CIVILIAN submission will

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REPORT HITLER 1S PLANNING SPEECH

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been hoping up to now that Japan would sue for peace first, thus placing the Wehrmachet in a position to say they didn’t lose the war but were let down by their allies. The report came as Hitler's own paper, the Voelkischer Beobachter, admitted that the next few weeks will decide the war in Europe. “We are facing the coming battles without illusions,* the newspaper was quoted in a Zurich dispatch as saying while allied armies streamed across western Germany and northwest Hungary. “If we are unable to stem the {allied storms from the east and [the west in the.next few. weeks, {then even the individual heroism lof the home battlefront will be in [ vain” ee A German radio commentator at

army discipline and even courtmartials were not sufficient to induce the people to continue fighting in the face of mounting odds. “Faith and" conviction are neces-

not solve the military problem of destroying the remaining army elements which appear deter~ mined to follow Hitler to destruc-

tion. Until that is solved, the war with Germany will not be over. -

The scarcity of first class units on most parts of the present cha-

been or are being withdrawn to form an east-west defense line in the north or south. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower pictured this as a possibility, >

otic front suggest that they have |

sary,” he said. “A lost peace would be worse than a lost war." ss * In London, the Daily Herald said authoritative opinion in London was that organized’ German resistance would collapse “probably very soon” after the next fortnight,

From Stockholm came word: of!

| the expected arrival in the Swed{ish capital of three members of | German Foreign Minister Joachim | von Ribbentrop’s “brain trust” on| | unexplained missions. | They were Karl Schnurre, num- | ber one German economic expert; | Waldemar Ludwig, director of the

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PORK AND LARD

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the deirdse would bé felt “very little” during April ’ “Later” in the quarter—in May | And June—there is normally a| sharper seasonal decline in the production of meat and the decrease | will be felt to a.greater extent at| that time than in April,” Bowles | said. Decreased’ supplies are cus-|

| Reichsbank, and Dr. Rudolph Fischer, expert on eastern Europe.

| Puzzle Germans Trip

| Stockholm sald Schnurre and [De less meat during the rest of the CIM regarding extended German

| Ludwig were supposed to have gone |

experts should be required, was sald to be a mystery even to the Swedish foreign office. Some Swedish sources believed | scheme to save German commercial | interests. Others suggested further peace feelers. It also was possible they went to Stockholm merely to replenish their {wardrobes and sample Swedish food. A Berne broadcast said an official |announcement confirmed earlier reports that the German government had left Berlina for an unannounced destination.

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tomarily accompanied by higher | ration values. Bowles said that while there will

year “we will still ‘have enough to meet all essential needs.” | Other changes for the next ra-

of a German-Swedish trade pact.|tion period beginning next Sunday [redoubt already has been prepared. Though why three such top-flight |and extending through April 28 |

were reduction of points on tomato | juice, canned sweet cherries, canned | plums and canned prunes. Bowles explained that peas and |

the same time complained that ‘iron the three men were working on a |8SParagus points had to be in-|

from 6 to 7; ham slices, from 10 to | 12; loin roasts, from 7 to 8. | Lard, shortening, salad and cooking oil, from 4 to 6 points; margarine, from 5 to 8. Canned peas .(No. 2 can) from 20 to 30 points; asparagus (No. 2 can) from 10 to 20; sweet cherries (No. 2'%=ean), from 60 to 40: ‘plums and prunes (No. 2!%2 can), from 30 to. 20; tomato juice (No. 2 can), from 20 to 10, 46-ounce can, from 40 to 20 points. Sausages up one point a pound; one to 2 point increases on most sausage products, meats in tin or glass containers and for many ready-to-eat meats.

CONFUSION GROWS INSIDE GERMANY

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ing after a night at Sigmarigen| (erstwhile residence of Marshal Pe- | tain, who bas been “evacuated” to Garmasch, joining the - Balkan Quislings) report that local inhabitants have been told that Hitler, Goering and Goebbels have already fled to their redoubt, leaving only Himmler in the capital. Nazis Traveling It Is known that several Nazis and the wives and children of prominent Nazis are waiting in or near Constance and that Nazis are traveling to and from Berlin and the redoubt. Undoubtedly, they will

continued to do so as long as the

roads between Bavaria and the capita] remain open, A Swiss high official, when I queried him about Swiss policy concerning the admittance of Nazi leaders’ womenfolk, declared that this little neutral country did not

consider women and children as

war criminals. “The allies. aré “#af fighting women and children,” he said... Meanwhile, military circles in Berlin admit that Nazi war production has diminished 60 per cent

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1,120.503 German prisoners in WestThis, he added, was in addition to German troops killed

and wounded,

Mr, Stimson said two campaigns

were responsible for breaking the German west wal] after the enemy {had stabilized {mately along the German border.

his lines approxi-

The first, he said, was the Ger-

man counter-offensive in the Ardennes

last December. Despite initial gains, he said, some of Germany’s— best troops were -severely-

| mauled.

In December and January the

| Nazis suffered 220,000 casualties and

lost quantities of tanks, guns and

transports, he said,

The second campagin was the

clearing of the Rhine's west bank.

The two campaigns in the Arden-

[nes and along the Rhine cost the | enemy about 550,000" men, he said.

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of hostages, already have taken refuge there, : The Dutch, Norwegians and Czechoslovaks all are seriously worried by the. possibility of protracted " German resistance in their countries. Norway, in particular, would be a difficult area from which to drive the enemy without a fullscale expedition. It is difficult to make sense out of the countless rumors of peace negotiations, which continue to arrive from Stockholm and Rome, From Stockholm, it is reported that Karl Schnurre, experienced A Nazi trade negotiator, has arrived Ave prominent Dutch idges hive there on some mysterious errand, |P0¢€h Shot by the Germans in ree From Rome, it is indicated that |Prisal for the shooting by patriots of the Vatican has been asked through | the Dutch attorney general of Ame its representatives in Switzerland to!sterdam.

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