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f . gf * N o H 4 " { : fos ; . : oo ‘RR Russians Within 400° Yards of azis in Haste . |Four-Power Economic Bloc “MILAN . je” J "To Be Prisoners] pan DART FL . or x : itler's Berlin Head CODDLING REPORTS Discussed as Security Aid| GENOA SET iy to. ve ~ Hitler's Berlin Headquarters| AUSTRIAN LINE! conines rem rus om | oUUULING REFUR iscussed as Securify Aid| GENOA SEI the neces- \ : “a a 3 nnn : ( ) Words are (Continued From. Page One) - |stantly patrolled the skies overhead €ffort 0 link up With the Rs [1.4 tne Geneva pact is “the ste) 'CoPlawed From Page One) | |gian wion-ty inelide x Yeyaraty try to retreat into the collapsing ! . s : , | against the possibility that some . sians were forced to give up the 1 f the land.” to a general hostility of the Rhine- Rhenish state. Reich, ask for internment i i Warriors,” Red Star sald, “Berlin's| Nos jeaders might take off before Storms In to Close Trap On| task and return to their own lines, |” era: 'aW of the land. i “We understand France will ask : : . ) or p Sk and return ] ‘| “The army’s treatment of prison- [land Catholics and labor toward the € undersian Switzerland, or simply surrender. ; for all, re= defénses are cracking at all the|mempelhof had been occupied com- Russian-feari civilians also : b seams. We are mopping up: dis-| pletely ; Bavarian Fortress were clogging the roads west of |CTS Of War is not, therefore, a ques. | Nazi regime. go) 1g, Sarr coal mines, a8 af Vor.) Meanwhile Sih army fects wolf ove by our ct after district.” : » . : tion of army policy, but a quéstion of| Under the four-power economic| gailles in 1919, to compensate for a| within 75 miles southeast of Milan : ght’ 1 i I AAIEES of the ob Escape Roads Cut Berlin, hauling a few precious be- law.” he said, union now under discussion, he ction | and less than 45 miles from Genos in A Some a 0 — c il The last ground escape routes, in- (Continued From Page One) longings in carts and baby car- | 0 6 TC any change it must.said, all tar barriers ‘would: be fixed period for the lost production Hist night Soviet hands, Moscow said sma ; ) , , . ] Ale together units of elite guards still were ap-|C¢luding five railways, two super-'p c. C, monitors in New York said | riages. Hike Fr in the dark |” made by congress, not by the torn down and all other restrictions of Pn mines damaged by the (Private advices from Switzerland "pearing, apparently from nowhere, |highways and six major highways,| Bremen had been captured.) It piso ance In the dark |army, Berry said. on a free flow of currencies, im-| enemy,” Bech said. said the patriots opened their ate to ‘live toe in the rear of Russian battallions,| were severed yesterday when the Civilians Greet British days o . “us The question of a difference in| ports and exports would be removed “Luxembourg desires that the |tacks in concert with the allied drive oA i Eto J ctndets al owo a, aves Tk! vp tl Tibet Br Wer Compre] uy Gulu hts or sn. {Sony vt bunt by pep tnt, mae ve meratonaties, Toes S TL Fhe ic PSL, p e ofl chard LD. MeMillan reporiec hall nected war criminals were per- a Moa . ily method would be by international . ad road. 10 Seize. Subway Stations a of Berlin Becker nad yeused u Anal sues mitted lo enter the American 34040 Prisuners Here tably EL ey control. France cold get along ings are moving so fast we 3 ‘|render ultimatum and fled with a h , . i a r way to & In the occupied area the Russians | Ten lines and surrender, however. | Committee Chairman Andrew J. " " - | just don't know where they are. p The junction forged a belt of en-| soy Ng; troops to a hideout in the | other civilians were turned back |May (D. Ky.) pointed out that to. | SCC. Corsets” Bech said. “In the without Ruhr coke if she gets con- | jus imate bene . es ) vy) po R rning newspapers, in big had selzed all subway stations,| ;..ement at least’ five miles thick|Bre t aT particular case of Luxembourg, we trol over the Sadh coal mines.| Rome morning mounting machineguns over them pn coil Te derman civilians 8nd 30M W #5 to their homes, (day's hearing was only on treat-| pst export 95 per cent of our Holland and Belgium both have |headlines, proclaimed the libératiom w world—a ’ : #2 2 =» ment of enemy prisoners in this giao) production or go bankrupt for their steel ire- [of Genoa and said the Germans Within the city, Marshal Ivan 8.|swarmed up from cellar dugouts, A B.'B. C. broadcast said & |ount Jip produ or go pt. |enough coal for their steel requ which the LONDON, April 26 (U. P.).~ |Kon®v's 1st Ukrainian army cap-|however, to greet the incoming former lord mayor of Berlin was | . iy. ; : Plan Already Proven ments. But Luxembourg will con- {had abandoned Milan. s respected. rict. f ; “We know the situation is terrible nL : tinue dependent upon the Ruhr for| Refugees from the Italian frone Nazi sources said today that Adolf |tured the southwest districts of British. captured by the American 2d | y 11) “The first necessity after peace 3 dertake our ing the botanical| « : |over there,” May said. “We're try-| all its coke. tier arriving in Switzerland reported h almight Hitler and Col. Gen, Heinz Gu- | Lichterfelde, including the anical We have had enough terror to] division as he- attempted to flee ly to find t If there d 'is to reform Europe economically, ins. i ] . nat the Milan uprising Was supe y derian, chief of staff of the Ger- |gardens, and Zehlendorf, lying be-||ast a lifetime,” they told their| south between the American and | 8 to find ou ere ls any|'® | The allies failed miserably in tha prisin ding 8 pere man army; personally were di- [tween the gardens and Grunewald| British “liberators.” Russian: lines coddling by the army in this coun- | socially, financially and culturally.|i919 in their effort to stimulate a |ported by most of the civilian popu= those. who recting the defense of Berlin from | forest, Berlin's biggest park. Both| pyjtish spearheads were believed 2 no» |Lry. T . | The first step must be planning for Rhineland Separatist movement. | lation. 1 ils moment an underground hideout inside | districts are four miles southwest striking beyond Bremen toward LT. GEN. Heinrich K. Kirch- | Berry told the committee that economic charter. We must| There is another opportunity now Timed For May the encircled chpltal, . of Potsdamer Platz, geographical| gremerhaven, 25 miles to the heim—captured by an American. the United States now holds 3.000,- | vol d at all. costs going back to! to encourage Rhineland Germans| They said the revolt originally in his own The German-controlled Scan- | center of Berlin. northwest, in a bid to. clear the| tank unit near Magdeburg—vol. [000 German soldiers as prisoners | : 3 | autarchy '¢ Preak away from Prussian con- was timed for May 1, but. was gis dinavian Telegraph ‘bureau said The 1st White Russian army un-|yaccan estuary and open Bremen| untarily sought to increase the |and that 340,000 of this number are | economie and financia my arc ¥ trol. The Rhineland pepulations |started yesterday afternoon because —————_ Guderian was organizing the |der Marshal Gregory K. Zhusot to allied shipping. bag of his countrymen with a | this country, [inet the pressure of purely ne me Jeady Deuguse hey. have Safe of the German collapse in northern death stand under Hitler's per- |forced the Spree river and captured| pre war Bremen, a city of more| broadcast over the Luxembourg WASHINGT April 26 (Up), | tionalistio feeling. That would be fered the most of all Germans, in| italy, sonal supervision. It attributed the Treptow park district and, in a| han 350 000 inhabitants, was the| radio. ON, Ap +P] atastrophic.” a war in which they: were never | a, anied force headquarters come its information to German papers [jump across the adjacent Teltow|tarminus for the North German Addressing himself particularly |—Between 20,000 and 25,000 U. 8. Beck sald the value of an eco- | Interested. | thunique told of air attacks on ene in Norway. canal, seized Britz. Both are In|pjoyq steamship line traffic with| to Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, su- |war prisoners have been berated] ion was pfoven after 1925] ATA wisest |my shipping in Genoa harbor, suge Southeast Berlin, the United States and South| preme commander of the Ger< |hy allied forces which have over-| : hat B 18 dL CHANDLER HEAD OF | gesting>the Nazis might be making and were making short shrift of Engulf Airdrome America, and its trade was ex-| man armed forces, Kirchheim |run at least 47 of 178 German ‘© year that Belgium and Luxem- ; U S PUBLISHERS a desperate attempt to evacuate 7 fanatics refusing to surrender. Zhukov's advance engulfed the|ceeded only by that of Hamburg, 55| said further resistance was “hope= prisoner of war camps and hos-| bourg set up their own agreement. . . i {their remnants by sea. Pictures published in MOSCOW | 4 qierchof airdrome. miles to the northeast. ‘less and senseless” in that the |pitals, the war. department said From then until the outbreak of] NEW YORK, April 26 (U. P).—| Some Italian ‘dispatches said thas showed giant Stalin tanks rumbling | wc of Berlin, the 1st White| The city was a key point in the! war already had been “irretrieve today. ’ -| the war, he said, the two-nation|William G. Chandler, Scripps-How- {most of Milan prquince now was - through devastated streets In cen-\p cian army captured the suburbs chain of morthern defenses along ably lost.” : These figures are based on in-| union rose to fifth place among the|ard newspapers executive, Was|in partisan hands. Forces had taken tral “Berlin, and past gaunt walls|,s pgjgensee, Falkenhagen and|Which the Nazi leaders reportedly Aetree——————— formation in the hands of the war exporting nations of the world— elected president of the American |Novara, 30 miles west of-Milan, and still bearing such ironic inscriptions Lagen Doeberitz in advancing 11(had planned to make a suicidal

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| THURSDAY, APRIL 26, i

PATTON NEARS

as “Berlin bleibt Deutsch”—Berlin

“remains German.

One picture showed chalked on a wall the inscription, “1918 won't be repeated.” Underneath it a Russian had written, “I, Sidorov, am in Berlin.” A Red Star dispatch said Russian assault units were swarming across the Spree south of the

Schlesischer (Silesian) rail station. |

Followed by tank-borne infantry and by artillery, they were making a bee-line for Tiergarten. Battle In Sixth Day The battle. of wrecked Berlin roared on into its sixth day in what Soviet front dispatches described as a “jungle of stone” above ground and in the dark, treacherous caverns of the city's subway system below. Four more city districts were cleared yesterday and both the Spree river and Teltow canal crossed despite ferocious counterattacks by the fanatic enemy garrison. Thirty-seven districts—about two-thirds of the city—now were in Soviet hands. Moscow said the Russians fighting without relief act of vengeance. In many places, the Germans turned over streetcars and filled them with stones to use as barricades.. A Nazi hroadcast admitted that Soviet artillery was hitting single targets among the Germanheld ruins “with amazing precision.”

were in a final

City Encircled Insisting that Hitler still was in Berlin, the German radio said: “There the war will be decided.” The 1st White Russian and 1st

stand after collapse of organized resistance in Berlin and central Germany,

imiles for its junction with Konev's troops. ~ f Falkensee is a mile and a half (west of the Spandau arsenal center |and seven miles from the Siemenstadt works, once the biggest elec-|doubt already was shaking in the [trical plant in the world. |south under the blows of four Amer- | A Berlin broadcast :said fighting ican, French and Russian armies was under way along the whole|closing in from the north, north[length of Frankfurterstrasse, one of (West, west and east on Hitler's Berchtesgaden retreat. Gen. George S. Patton's U. S. 3d army was far out in front of the four-cornered drive, moving southward along the Bohemian plateau on Passau, only 98 miles from a juncture with Red army troops advancing from the east, Delayed front dispatches, lagging 12 hours and more behind Patton's racing tanks, said the Americans were only 11 miles from Passau last night and rolling unchecked through disorganized German opposition. Two 3d army infantry divisions forced the Danube barrier at three points on an 18-mile front east and west of Regensburg, 50-odd miles northwest of Passau, early today. They broke into Regensburg and stabbed ahcad within about 50 miles of Munich. : . The Danube crossing shattered the last natural defense line before

Close In on Lair The second and greatest Nazi re-

{the boulevards leading to Alexander Platz. . More than 6000 Germans were killed in the Berlin fighting yesterday alone, the Soviet high command reported. East Prussia Cleared

The Red army trimmed 800 miles off the German pocket southeast of Berlin, reducing it to 1200 square miles. Driving into the sack from the south, the Soviets cleared the entire Cottbus-Guben railway and pushed to within four miles of Beeskow, last big resistance center in the pocket. : The 3d White Russian army | finally completed the occupation of |East Prussia with the captufe of {the hulk-littered port of Pillau, at [the tip of the Smland peninsula |west of Koenigsberg. { In Czechoslovakia, the 2d Ukrain- | an army battled into the outskirts of the arsenal city of Brno and half-

{circled it. | that the British 2d tactical air

‘GERMAN POISON GAS | force was maintaining a ceaseless SHELLS ARE SEIZED dawn-te-dusk patrol over the

LONDON, April 26 (U. P.).— The air ministry announced today

the Nazi Bavarian redoubt itself ang spilled a torrent of American troops, tanks and guns into the streets of Regensburg. Regensburg

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far as I am able to judge, the British are in the same boat. The peoples of America and Britain, have shown themselves so im- | patient of recurring conflicts that, as the President said, failure to observe the people’s mandate “would draw on us the bitter wrath of generations yet unborn.” 4 So the big question mark here is Russia. The fundamental position of most other delegations is no mystery, Most of them want changes in the Dumbarton Oaks formula. But, almost without exception, they admit they will go along with .the new league if the others will, None of these would dare risk dropping a monkey-wrench into the works now beginning to turn at San Francisco. They have far too much at stake. : But, rightly or wrongly—and this conference will tell which—Russia is | believed to be only lukewarm to{ward the proposed league. She is | widely credited with the desire to | build up a powerful defense sys- | tem of her own first, then collabor{ate with the world organization | afterwards. Poland Link in Chain | At least the Soviet Union is now engaged in forming a sort of “cordon sanitaire” of her own against any and all outsiders. She is forg{ing a chain of “friendly” buffer states along her borders which, when completed, may stretch .all the way from the North sea to the Pacific ocean.

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and, state departments and the in-| following only thé United States, ternational Red Cross as of April 23. | Great Britain, Germany and France. No additional information has been| Luxembourg, he said, is especially received here since then, the war| interested in the solution of the department said. From 60,000 to | Rhingland problem hecause of the 65,000 American prisoners of war | prospécts of eventually extending

Newspapers Publishers association | the towns of Legnano, today. David W, Howe, publisher of the [the city. Burlington (Vt) Free Press, was elected vice president. Under A.N. |across the Po in strength and ade P. A. custom, Howe will succeed to |vancing northward swift agains§

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Ukrainian armies completed the bia, S. C., and Capt. George Gorry, encirclement of Berlin, sealing its London, O., who ‘inspected the gas doom, in the western suburbs yes-|cache; estimated that the dump terday, Premier Marshal Stalin re- had been established no more thar vealed in a triumphant order of the two weeks .ago, suggesting that the day. | Nazis might have intended to use

is one of the main outer fortresses covering Munich and the roads to Berchtesgaden. Almost 50 miles to the southeast, Patton's 11th armored division drove almost’ unopposed over the

Poland is one link in this chain. That pact has been behind her Polish policy ever since 1939. It is behind her stand on Poland here. There is not-the slightest chance| that she will ever permit the in-

Soviet and Anierican planes con- poisorn-gas against-the 3d ‘army.

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—not if she can help it. Patton's men were little more Other uncompleted links are inner than 100 miles from a juncture Mongolia, Manchuria and Korea. with Red army troops advancing on | Russia may be expected to oppose Berchtesgaden from positions about | anything here, therefore, which 110 miles east of the mountain hide- might interfere with her freedom

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Hitler's elaborate chatel at Berchtesgaden ‘was in ruins after a shattering R. A. F. attack yesterday that also was believed to have dame aged the fuehrer’s towering Kehlstein fortress nearby. German, resistance was breaking wide open on the last lap of the bloody road to Berchtesgaden and farther west where the U. S. Tth and French 1st armies were across the Danube in force, pounding in to join the baftle for Munich and the redoubts Even grealer chaos shook the German lines ta the north. There Hitler's Western front had all but vanished ' under the converging blows of the American and Russian armies. Field dispatches said a juncture between the western and eastern allies was expected hourly, American 9th army patrols sent out to meet. the oncoming Soviets {in the latter area yesterday were forced to turn back because of the flood of German soldiers and civilians rushing westward to sur-

H render to the Yanks.

EVENTS TODAY

Electric league, difner, Lincoln hotel, 6:45 m hotel, 7:45 p. m

EVENTS TOMORROW

Inter-denominational vigil of g prayer for the United Nations San Francisco conference, Second Presbyterian church, 10 a.m, to 1p m General Memorial war memorial, 7: p. m. 3 Daughters of Isabella, Eonvention; Claypool hotel, # Indiana Society for, Public Administration, meeting, war memorial, 7:30 p. m Indianapolis Federation of COymmunity Civie clubs, meeting, Hotel Washington, m

association, meeting,

p. m, Hawthorne Social Service ‘association, dinner, Washington Street Methodist

church, Phi Delta Theta, luncheon, Columbia club,

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{of action in the far east when, in {her judgment, the time has come to intervene. The impression is that Russia will accept the néw league of nations now in the words here only as a second line of defense. Her first line will be . designed, built and managed exclusively by herself. In the event of a clash between the interests of her first line of defense and her second line, few seem to {doubt which would have to give | way,

Right in Face Of Der Fuehrer

LONDON, April 26 (U, P).— When Rep. Carter -Manasco (D, Ala) came’ face to face with a picture of Hitler, he took another chew of tobacco, let fly, and scored, a bullseye, “Yep,” sald Manasco today. “I put a little brown mule juice right spang on his whiskers.” Manasco was touring - German concentration camps.

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