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of two Cierman field armies trapped | there. More than 200,000 of the! pocketed Germans already were) prisoners and only about 30,000. re- | mained to be eliminated. "Unauthenticated but possibly corréct . reports said Field Marshal Walter von Model, Gérman com-

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{a surprise flanking attack. BRITISH 2D ‘ARMY: Closed a siege arc three-quarters of ‘the way around Brefhén and advanced on Hamburg along a 40-mile . front, {touching off a panicky German re|treat across the Elbe river. | CANADIAN IST ARMY: Virtual-

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{cated, Soviet assault forces stormed across the Oder below Stettin and near Zehden in the river elbow. Berlin said they attacked “td gain bridgehepds on the western bank of the Oder to be used as springboards for their general offensive.” + A German military spokesman said the battle in the Oder area was

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pocket in despair over the course of ‘the two-week battle that already had swept more than 750,000 of his, troops into allied prison cages. Storm Into Magdeburg Fresh disaster was shaping up for| the Germans along the Elbe before Berlin, where the U. S. 9th army's | 30th infantry and units of -the 2d armored division stormed ‘into! Magdeburg, 60 miles southwest of the capital's city limits. The attack kicked off in the wake of a four-hour aerial] and artillery, bombardment that brought hun-| dreds of buildings inside Magdeburg tumbling down around the heads of |

2000 to 4000 elite guards and Hitler less than 90 miles from Munich, very happy to meet the leaders of | mov

youth fighters, Field dispatches said the Ameri cans had broken into the city, the last important German foothold on the west bank of the Elbe in the Berlin sector.

any official appointments. involving the cabinet or other top government personnel.

He said, under questioning, that

North sea coast on a broad front between the Issel and Ems-rivers. American 1st:army troops assaulting Leipzig and fanning out east, northeast and southeast of that|James F. Byrnes, former war city were rapidly closing off the| mobilization director, was not going main enemy eseape roads.south of|to the San Francisco conference, thé capital, He's going back to South CareU. 8. 3d army forces on their lina, Mr. Truman said of Byrnes, right flank were menacing the Ger- adding that when he needed mans’ last big line of through Dresden.and Czechslovakia, | it. In response to a further quesadvancing within 30 miles of Dres- tion, Mr. Truman said he had no den and up to the German-Czecho- plans for bringing Byrnes into the slovak border. | government, 90 Miles From Munich Happy to Meet Allies At Nuernberg the Americans were! Mr, Truman said he would be

birthplace of the Nazi party, -150 the fighting allies, including Prime miles from Berchtesgaden, and less| Minister Winston Churchill, Prethan 50 miles from the headwaters! mier Josef Stalin, Generalissimo of the Danube. : Chiang Kai-shek-and Gen, Charles Unconfirmed’ and seemingly pre-|de Gaulle. He said, however, that mature reports broadcast by radio ‘he had not {nitiated any steps to-|

retreat | Byrnes’ advice he would send for!

Paris said the flight into Bavaria

| ward any meetings with them.

45 Miles From Berlin Qther- 9th army - troops massed

{already had been halted by an Mr, Truman said that he had | American-Russian jlineture in thelasked Mr. Roosevelt's three secre=1

gaining momentum hourly. Other Nazi reports made. it plain that the whole eastern front was plazing in a general offensive chopping into the hour-glass waist of unoccupied Germany. Heaviest Fighting at Wriezen The spokesman said the heaviest [fighting on the Berlin front was | going on in the area of Wriezen, 23 miles northeast of the city and 14 miles southeast of Eberswalde. On the Neisse front, the spokesman said, the Russians wedged two and a half miles into the German positions around Muskau, 15 miles south: of Forst. They were reported ing toward Spremberg, 13 miles south of the Cottbus ‘turntable of |the southeastern defenses of Ber{lin and 85 miles northeast of Leip- | 218. While armored forces fought near | Eberswalde, 17 miles northeast of Berlin, two more tank-supported Soviet divisions plunged through the Nazi line east of Letschin, 26 miles to the southeast and 30 miles

along an 80-mile stretch of the Elbe as far north as Wittenberge, 'and south to Barby, where ele-| "ments of the 83d infantry (trained | at Camp Atterbury) and 2d are _mored divisions were battling to]

{Elbe river valley between Pirna, 11 [miles southeast of Dresden, and the Czechoslovak border city schen, 18 miles to the southeast. |to stay at their posts and help train

D. Hassett and Jonathan Daniels—

of Tir- and Judge Samuel I, Rosenman

The site of the reported juncture, | Truman's White House team.

extend a five-mile deep bridgehead | Which headquarters spokesmen in-| He announced appointment of

on the Berlin side of the river, The 9th army front looped to within 45 miles of Berlin's city limits at a point on the west bank of the Elbe north of Madgeburg, where the American and Russian battle lines were barely 70 miles

dicated actually had been chosen !Matthew J. Connelly as his confi-| for that meeting, was almost 50 | dential secretary and Leonard miles west of the last reported Reinsch to help with press and raRed army positions and about 40 dio affairs. Connelly had served miles east of the American lines. |Truman in the senate, and Reinsch 1st in Front {was a radio expert for the Demo-

.{taries—Stephen T. Early, William | from the capital, the Germans said.

Another German broadcast said the Soviet attack at the southern end of the new assault front had | “assumed the character of a large- | scale offensive” in itself, apparently aimed at linking up with the Amerjcan 3d army 80-odd miles to the west. Planes Support Drive Supported by a heavy.. artillery | bombardment and waves of bombers,

Both the American 3d and Io re committee in the iy, soviet armies and several in-

apart. American 1st army units on the 8th army’s left flank were on the Elbe some 70 miles from the center of Berlin and were only 24 miles west of the river line in the Colditz area beyond encircled Leipzig. Still farther south, Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's American 3d

armies were pounding hard toward the link-up, however, with the 1st army apparently well out in front after surrounding Leipzig and racing, more than 22 miles beyond that city, : Doughboys of the 1st army’s 69th infantry division battled up into the southern outskirts of Leipzig

army of the Elbe fortress of Dres- | &St night, pushing —thgough the

den which, with Leipzig, represent--ed the m escape route into Bavaria for “the remaining German forces south of Berlin. co-ordination with the Soviets. Field dispatches gave these highlights of the western battle:

.U. 8. 8TH ARMY: Deepened its| Elbe river bridgehead to more than five miles against fierce enemy coun-ter-attacks. U. 8. IST ARMY: Stormed the central German military base of | Leipzig where an estimated 30,000] crack German troops were reported dug in for a fight to the death and sped 22 miles beyond the city to take Colditz. Jqined with the 9th army in the almost complete liquidation of the Ruhr pocket. | U. 8. 3D ARMY: Moved up to the German - Czechoslovak border on a 20-mile front and opened an| assault on Chemnitz, key to the! enemy defenses of Dresden. - |

suburban town of Magdeborn, four miles to the south.

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I ‘In the Dessau area, the 1st army's

3d armored division linked up with doughboys of the American 9th army along the Elbe river and deployed for a crossing to join in the assault on Berlin. The * Yanks held a five-mile arc east of the fiver extending into Gueterslueck, about 55 miles southwest of the Berlin city limits and about 65 miles from the center of the Nazi capital. Front reports said powerful tank and artillery - forces already had been rammed dcross the bridgehead and that new pontoon bridges were being thrown up rapidly, including a makeshift span labelled “Truman Bridge—Gateway to -Berin” Other 9tH army forces deployed along a winding, 85-milg stretch

‘of the Elbe's west bank northward |

U. 8. TTH ARMY: Broke into the from Barby to the Wittenberge

| | dependent tank formations stormed Sitting with him during the con-!the Germans’ Neisse river fortificaference . were Connelly, Reinsch, | tions between Forst. 60 miles south- | Early, Daniels, Hassett and Adm. east of Berlin, and ‘Muskau, 15 miles { William Leahy, who was personal| farther south, Nazi broadcasts said. | chiet- of. staff to President Roose-! “The Germans checked the asvelt and who is continuing for the|sault on a front of 12% miles in time, at least in the same role| fluctuating fighting,” the D. N. B. with President Truman. agency reported. “Later - they —— Points to- Record |countersattacked and recaptured

i . Ninety-two A reporter. wanted to know how considerable . ground Mr. Heli felt toward a Ainbnd Soviet tanks were knocked out.” -

of things done by his predecessor to A Paris report said the Red army improve the lot of American Ne-|2/7eady had linked up with the groes, asking specifically how he felt | Americans in the Elbe valley Sati about the Negroes' desire for fair| #3 of Dresden, but latest officia employment practices and the right | dispatelies Placeq the Soviets Nearly to vote without tax. {50 miles and-the Americans 40 miles Mr. T % Veined seriously to.) from the purported junction point. ward his questioner and said he| Si¥ Armies Attacking [would give him some advice—read | | the record in the senate of Harry S. Truman.

The German Transocean agency, advance to within 10 miles northjsaid the Russians were attacking east of the last enemy escape port {with at least six armies in the|of Piilau.

sians made several breaches in the Nazi liné east of Letschin, 12 miles northwest of Kuestrin and four miles beyond the Oder. Transocean added the usual claim that the breaches had been “sealed off.” : ! Other German broadcasts said the Russians had dropped paratroops even closer to Berlin, but claimed these were encircled and wiped out. The Germans told of still other penetrations of their. lines as far north as ‘Schwedt, 45 miles northeast of Berlin, despite Adolf (Hitler's order to hold fast and drown the Berlin-bound offensive in a ‘sea of blood.” ' Surrender Appeals Altogether, nine infantry, five tank and two air armies were participating in the big offensive, Berlin said. A Stockholm dispatch said Russian ' parachutists, including German officers who had" been captured at Stalingrad, had been dropped in the Berlin area to confuse the Nazi defenses. The: officers wore their old German uniforms, the dispatch said. : Other officers seized at Stalingrad were appealing through loud speakers at the front to German soldiers to surrender. Lt. Gen. Walter Seydlitz, another of the prisoners and a member of the Free German committee in Russia, appealed over the Moscow radio to the Germans to lay down their arms “to save as many lives as possible.” “Hitler's fortress is about to fall,” Seydlitz said. “It is already cut into isolated parts. Everything is advancing with gigantic steps to complete the disintegration.” New Gains in Austria The Soviet high command, as was its custom in the early stages of a major offensive, was silent on the German claims, but Soviet historian Eugene Tarle said in a Moscow radio talk that the attack on Berlin had begun “from the east

and west.” ; Moscow _ dispatches told only of new Russian gains in Austria with one column driving to within 25 miles of the big industrial center of Graz. The 3d White Russian army: in East Prussia whittled: the Naz pocket on the Samland peninsula down to 56 square miles with an

{| ments, some circles close to him

{believed that gradual changes may | be started within a few weeks. LIQUOR BOARD HEAD

Tonight at 9 o'clock (Indianap- ; : The Marion -county liquor board olis time) he will address the armed had beep Teshuffied today and

Services in a broadcast beamed Thomas W. Kercheval, Republican

throughout the world. realtor, emerged as the new chairIn that address, he will under-!,

score the pledge he made yesterday that our successful military leadership will carry forward ‘“unhamp-

Retiring chairman is Charles Meischke, also a Republican, who is slated to remain on the hoard as

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Despite Mr. Truman's refusal to! de any possible official appoint- KERGHEVAL NAMED ; LIFELONG COUNTY

(area, cleaning out all but a few ered and unchanged.” | small German pockéts in and near| Ang he will add emphasis to his . | Magdeburg, "15 - miles north of 4 romise thai the new aéiministra-

YANKS. SMASH 204 > Garey. 9tion above all else will strive to ; J APANESE PL ANES May Abandon Nuernberg make secure the peace that is be-

Preliminary reports , raised the ing won with American blood on (Continued From Page One) | POSSIDIlity that the Germans might | world battlefields.” : | abandon Nuernberg without a fight Congress Smiling bases from which Japanese airmen | in order to prevent the destruction have been attacking American air, 0f the beautiful, walled city where In the comment snd Yemcilon of

the appointee -of the state Alcoholic Beverage Commission. Newly elected secretary of the Bald W Toney Flack, Democrat, - succeeding Mr. Kercheval, :

HITLER'S STAR FADING

LONDON, April 17_(U. P.).—Hitler's personal astrologer, Prof.

sea and land forces in the Okinawa | area. : The Kanoya airfield on Kyushu!

was attacked yesterday by Mus-| however, that the city commander)

tangs from 7th fighter command bases on Iwo island. Adm. Chester

W. Nimitz’ carrier planes and lands | service units and planned to de-

based fighters from Iwo had been pounding the island for five days. The Japanese Domei agency said

that Emperor Hirohito, admitting] The Marion county chapter of the

the “war situation is extremely grave,’ had donated 10,000,000 yen (81,000000) for the relief of the “increasing” number of Japanese air raid victims. Domei also said a “civilian goe-

cial attack corps” would be organs |

ized on a national basis in Tokyo

April 25 for the purpose of defend--

Ing Japan's homeland against the enemy.” Yanks Take Tiny Isle The’ new B-29 strike came while Anderican assault troops were mopping up tiny Ie island which they seized three miles west of Okinawa yesterday as another base for the aerial campaign. The ground campaign on Okinawa brought few changes in positions during the past week but blazing air battles developed on a

some of his listeners there was a hint of relief that friendly times may be ‘ahead. Since the first year of the Hoover had raised a motley force of con-| administration there have been | valescents, air force personnel and | more hard words than soft exchanged here among the spokesmen fend the city to the death. . .|for the great parties and the tac-

the Nazis once held their elaborate party congresses.

Captured enemy troops said,

Krafft, who advised the German dictator on the launching dates for many German offensives, has been captured in the Ruhr pocket, the British Broadcasting Corp. sald yesterday.

MUNCIE MINISTER DIES MUNCIE, April 17 (U. P.).~The

tions into which they naturally divide. y v There is backslapping here today | Izaak Walton League of Americal and congress is wearing a great | Inc., will meet at 8 o'clock tonight|big smile, generally speaking. |at the Central Y.M.C.A. Harry| Meanwhile, this limousine-in- | A. Peterson will speak on “How Not |fested capital saw something today

WALTON LEAGUE MEETS

Rev. Charles E. Watkins, educa!tional director of the American | Cities Bureau of Chicago, died in { his home here last night. He for- { merly was a Muncie Baptist min|ister, general secretary of the

1a war leader,

than 1700 messages. On the basis of these and his personal association ‘with the President, he “conceived an admiration for him as a statesman, a man of affairs, and as I felt the utmost confidence in his upright, inspiring character and outlook.” “A Bitter Loss” “It is a loss, indeed a bitter loss, to humanity that these heartbeats are stilled forever,” he said. “There is no doubt the President foresaw

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the great danger closing in upon] the pre-war world with far more! prescience than most well informed people on either side of the At-| lantic.” Churchill moved a resolution ex- | pressing the deep sorrow with! which commons learned of Mr. Roosevelt's death. | “For us it remains enough to say that in Franklin Roosevelt died the greatest American friend we have ever known, and the greatest cham. | pion of freedom ‘who has ever brought help and comfort from the new world to the old,” Churchill said. ? :

__The services were attended by|

King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, high British officials and many

Winant,

choir sang the 23d Psalm. Then|.

he read a passage from the Revelations in his slow New England drawl. Churchill entered St. Paul's grim and sad. During the prayer he wept openly but recovered his composure and during the singing of the “Star Spangled Banner” his voice could be heard above the others, loud and strong. Gazes at Altar At the close of the service Churchill stood. apart for a moment, gazing ‘at the altar which was decorated with calla lilies and lighted by four candles. After a moment he squared his shoulders and marched out, accompanied by his daughter, Sarah, who walked slightly to his rear.

ONE SUGGESTION

NEW YORK, April 17 (U. P).— One bus cdmpany tried to solve the transportation jam with: this sign: “Move to the rear. This bus is so constructed that the rear end will arrive at your destination at

Americans, led by Ambassador John |

A Winant read the Scriptural les-| son, mounting the pulpit as the)!

the same time as the front end.”

RESIDENT IS DEAD

| Daniel 8. Michael, a farmer, died | yesterday in his home, R. R. 11, {box 256. He was 83,

A lifelong Marion county resi- |

dent, he was a member of the Old Bethel Methodist church. Survivors “are two sisters, Mrs {Maryland Stutsman,” Indianapolis, ja Mrs. George Harmening, Lutz, Fla.

Rev. Robert Ellis at 2 p. m. Thurs- | day in the Moore Mortuaries Irving- } ton chapel: Burisi“wi Be ii An-| derson cemetery, « - 2 |

VOLUNTEER HELP CLEANS UP CHURCH

Kleis, at the organ, and Mrs. Ruth. Booher at the door. Mrs. John Benefiel and Mrs. Ed Petrey chatted with each other as they dusted a chair. Mrs. Edith Williams. brought | her little son Jimmy along with her to the church. Others who helped were Mrs. Ray

Mrs. Sallie Kniptash. All the women took time before

to Live to a Ripe Old Age.” Also ait hadn't seen for a great many Muncie Y. M. C. A, during world | leaving home to make sandwiches.

{ film of the Northwest timberlands|years—the President of thé United |-'will be shown. | States walking to work.

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(Continued From Page One) severe burns and stab wounds. “3. One elderly man exhibited a very severe laceration involving both ears and posterior cervical re-

| building, where doctors and nurses | and patients were indiscriminately | bayonéted,” the war department | said. ; glon “The evidence includes grisly ex- Arms Amputated hibits of sadism. Babies were re-| |, : br ‘4, One girl of about 10 years, pestey Stabbed and Slashed With | nd one 2-year-old boy exhibited

their mothers’ | arms, Women and

young girls | Amputations, complete, of left fore-

war I, and a past district governor { of Rotary international.

Hundreds Tortured and Massacred by Japs in Manila

5 years of age were suffering from often with victims locked inside, the | Cosgrove,

war department said. 82 Priests Killed

{ “A-total of 82 priests and brothers |

{ have been identified as killed by the | Japanese, and ‘a survey indicates that more than 90 per cent of the { Spanish convents, churches. and religious houses have been destroyed by the Japanese,

“Refugees were crowded into gon-

for lunch. Dessert and coffee were | served by the Mothers’ class. | 1

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superior of the demptorist Fathers. “We” heard the soldiers drinking outside,” the priest's testimony de-| clared. “Frequently during the aft-! | ernoon they came in to watch us | and laughed and mocked at the | suffering of their victims, . | Sometimes the Japanese soldiers! |came in and tried to violate. the!

young girls who were actually!

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300-mile front extending south from | Vere violated, their breasts ampu- | Kyushu to Okinawa. : tated, and their genitals stabbed

* The Japanese continued air at- With bayonets,

“5. One small boy was found dead with through - and - through stab wounds in the chest and neck.”

cordia college "When the Japahese| pnd there was the report of the set it afire, closed the doors with| pt eSantiago massacre where a

tacks on the American forces | around Okinawa but sufferéd heavy | losses. Carrier planes shot down | 62 Japanese aircraft yesterday. Enenty Losses Heavy Anti-aircraft guns bagged 15 more, combat patrols shot down 67! and fighters got 22 in the sweep over | Kyushu. Gal A Japanese communique clainted | that Japanese planes and surface! units sank or damaged 31 more American ‘warships in the Okinawa area from Saturday through Monday. ~ In the Philippines, - Japanese “troops were reported counter-at-tacking heavily in a desperate effort to check American forces closing in on Baguio in northern Luzon, In central Luzon other American _ forces eliminated "several strong

Japanese pockets in the Novaliches-{ tied behind their backs, he said. Marikina water shed northeast of | Manila.

Tactical fir forces continued to: declared that evidence of assault up from the inside, and rocks had|gie—not in reprisal but as a de-

"support. ground forces. and Jong ‘range bombers swept the Asia coast from Shanghai to Saigon in maintaining the blockade of Ching sea

A Chinese communique anndunced

on the Han

Bap Joint bilaterally amputated nipples with Feb. 9.

\ chains, and surrounded it with ma- | “ ay 1 ’ : aM { Hundreds were bound and np, yor department’said after a chineguns. “Army officers saw|

Soaked. with, gasoline, ov encircled |; "s. infantry regiment attacked charred bodies in the ruins but with blazing fuel. - Survivors report | py Santiago in the “walled city” exact figures could not be estabthat the Japanese mocked and np. 23.34 atrocities involving jisheds - At Plaza McKinley, out laughed at their victims, {about 400 victims came to light, trogps found the bodies of 40 priests One. witness said he discovered| “Our troops first discovered 50 riddled with bayonet wounds and the bodies of 76 men, women and podies piled in a room measuring their hands tied behind their children near the home. for Catholic|12 feet by 15 feet,” the announce- packs.” brothers. » (ment said. 2k A | Romulo, speaking i “Some of the women were preg-| “They showed evide¥ce of Starva- | 1.0 ded for Ree Bi Joust, nant,” his affidavit declared. “On|tion or extreme malnutrition, gnd habilitating his . people. and called the body of one woman the breasts they had been shot repeatedly in ,non congress not to forget the had been cut off. All of the bodies the back while their hands were ....fices of the Filipinos. found were pierced by several | tied béhind them. In a nearby stone y Tok . | bayonet wounds.” | building 15 feet square, 30 addi- Yo Must Die : He branded the Japanese treat-

| tional bodies were found. Hatds Tied Behing Backs | | ment of Manila “the culminating crime in a ‘long series of charges

Another witness, identified as a 300 Found in’Dungeon | captain in. the medical corps, dis- | “Foul odors led to an even more ,n." \.. crimes comnfission of the | covered 48 bodies strewn along a|shocking discovery in Ft. Santiago. | united nations must charge in its gual stream, Forcing open steel doors seven feet | indictment against the. Japanese | Most of the dead had their hands| pop our troops entered a dungeon Nation.”

/ At the conclusion -of his address, | The aMdavit of a sergeant who whose walls were five feet thick. |, declared: a

| discovered the corpses of 45 women| Its only Window had been boarded | ‘Manila is dead, and Tokyo must

| was apparent, : | been piled against the outside. Iron! fense measure necessary to insure | Hisg affidavit .also disclosed, that|bars formed a cage within the dun-| future Pacific: peace.” ' i ~ ; | children were found among this eon, measuring 15 feet by 18 feet. | Frequently Romulo quoted from group of dead, all of whom had Inside were the starved bodies of afdavits signed by American medi- | been cruelly bayonetted.™ ~. «’;“aiedrly 300 mien and women.” | cal officers, priests and civilians [* The following log was kept by "One captured Japanese dotument who escaped the Japanese. Ek a cavalry surgeon for Feb. 15-16: - (reported that 1000 “guerillas” were| He told of a massacre at La Salle ~ “I, Five teen-aged girls exhibited burned to. death on the night of college where Japanese . soldiers | bayoneted toddling children and

‘penetrating bayonet wounds of both| Th# Japanese gdéstroyed many ats 01 bot es I

roomful of dying human beings were buried alive and those who sought escape met machine-gun fire | and the laughter of Japanese sol-! diers. And the case of the so-called Red | Cross massacre, when Romulo sald a Japanese murder squad entered the Philippines Red Cross hospital and “shot and bayoneted staff doc- | tors, nurses and patients alike.” In explanation the Japanese sol-| diers said: “No good. Americans very bad. No like Red Cross.” Showed Photographs | Such was the” testimony ‘Romulo quoted. He urged his listeners to | substantiate his account by study- |

ing the official photographs of the

U. 8. army signal corps. ‘Here "are the pictures of the

been tied behind their backs before | they were stabbed in the back by | Japanese bayorfets,” . Romulo said. | “Here are the pictures of babies | sabred or cut through wig bayo- | nets in the arms of their* dead mothers.” Ns ir] He said these were the brutalities. of . Japanese soldiers operatirg under orders of “a serene and efficient © command”? which

their ‘elders, finally throwing the chary

| dead upon the living, ile “He ced the testis

churc nvents and under ings of np military

heaped and mutilated bodies, men, ||” women, children, whose hands had |

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