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DICE RESPUE Polish Pact With k Jee. BSCE 0 Is Revealed.

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line; for example—would be binding on Poland.

% , | paign. - i officer Char “Charmed. With On the contrary, it, would seem to blow to Nagoya's ' sprawling rd The

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: Eisenhower Murder Plot. | cord to which view Paragraph 3 of | the secret protocol lends emphasis.

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“ An worth the risk The undertakings mentioned matter, dace it v. for the job. article 6, of the published agree-

ment—should they be entered mto Ho Jet Bein on > fi Sor ome by one of the contracting parties | _ paratroop division was also flown with a third state—would of necesdown on the mission. Obviously, the sity be so framed that their execuNazis didn’t plan to miss. tion should at no time prejudice . Mussolini was kept on the move, either the sovereignty or territorial |

ing party. By Mutual Agreement The British ~ government, there-| fore, would appear legally, as wel as morally bound to support the Used. Gliders sovereignty claim of the Polish govHe was taken from Magdelene ernment-in-exile in San Francisco the day before Skorzeny planned and also at the future peace table.

{sland of Ventutene, then at Ft. St. ~-Magdelene on another island, and finally at a castle in the mountains, ig QGransasso, north of Rome.

m SQUARE MILES OF ‘NAGOYA ABLAZE

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| sault may have been’ the’ death |

factories. ) The raid’ Was the fourth -largescale blow in a campaign to wipe Nagoya, the enemy's largest aircraft manufacturing center, off the {map of Japan. One-half or more of Nagoya well may be in ruins how. In each of the last two raids, the giant B-29s have dropped a greater weight of fire bombs on Nagoya than ever was unloaded on a German city in. a single allied raid. Including demolition bombs, how-| ever, the European bombloads occasiohally were heavier. A nine-square-mile area of Na-

-the ult there. So, despite the In fact the London Poles had a| fact that Gransasso castle was almost inaccessible and the para- surrender at Rheims and Berlin.

“, troopers refused to work on the job, | “ugy 14 the contracting parties,” |

Ey and 68 pickéd men. went reads article 7, “be engaged in hosusing gliders.

related. “We ran into a pdssage-|or treaty of peace except by mutual | way and luckily it was the commu- |qoreement.”

{of the Superfortresses swept over |

time.

For the next hour and a half,! Marine Sgt.

the big bombers’ unloaded their]

tilities ‘in consequence of the appli- | deadly cargoes at the rate of nearly at Atlanta, Ga., “The pilot dropped the glider 50 {cation of the present agreement, 40 tons a minute on the largest| »..meters from the castle,” Skorzeny ¢ m

literation atiack.

| Lt. Col. Robert Post of Miami, goya ignited nearly 72 hours earlier! still was smoking when the first)

| Casualties Mount as Okinawa Battle Nears Final Stage

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side of the island lay Naha airstrip, {a mile southwest of. the capital’ and | biggest prize of the 48- -day cam-

grenade as they departed. Foreman quoted combat photographer Pfc. John T. Smith Jr, Charleston, 8. 'C., as saying: ““I'te bombings of Naha must have caught a lot of people by surprise for their grotesque, charred bodies lay sprawled on the grcund or in ‘doorways as though they'd becn killed in. mad .flight, Streets and sidewalks had been torn wide open. The streets were pocked with bomb craters and we nad to crawl around mounds of debris and past stinking corpses of people and animals. It must have been a beautiful, up-to-date city once, but now it looks like a trash dump.”

Japanese ' were resisting | fiercely from well-established defense ‘positions, "and only the tenacity of an estimated 30,000 or more fanatical enemy troops—whijch were being killed at the rate of one a minute—stood in the way of American forces anxious for a quick { clean-up of-the island. . | A recapitulation of Monday's | Japanese counter-attack against the 1st marine division north of Takamotoji showed 585 enemy dead and an estimated 446 additional] |dead—a ratio of 20 to 1 to U. S. . Casualties Mount losses. One flamethrowing tank| The battle raged on with un|crew claimed it burned to death 75 paralleled fury all across the south- | enemy soldiers in less than al/érn tip of the island. It already | minute. was the bloodiest campaign of the Pacific war, and casualties on both Fla, estimated this tank crew al-|sides continued to mount by the ready has accounted for more than |lhousands: [1000 Japanese, in addition to those! A Pacific fleet communique re-

right to be a party to the German |the city today at 3 a. m. Japanese they have flushed from hidden po-| ported ‘that 46,505 Japanese had

| sitions. {been killed and 1038 taken prison-

Harold Foreman, ers through Tuesday. In the last | formerly of the United Press bureau five days, the Americans have been -reported that a killing Japanese at the rate of 1400

patrol which entered Naha stayed | eve ry 24 hours.

they will not conclude an armistice | target area yet chosen for an ob-|for almost five hours in daylight! "American soldiers and‘ miarines

without seeing a living person until have been dying at the rate of 156

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a Japanese soldier shrew a hand: a day during the past aveek. Casual-

ties for the first 44 days of the campaign through Monday totaled 37810 dead, 17,004 wounded and 165 missing—a total of 20,950. Total American casualties alreaoy had exceeded those on Iwo-—19:938 ~ though the number of dead to date was 408 fewer.”

Yanks 8 Miles From"

Mindanao Air Base

MANILA, May 17 (U. P.).~American troops have smashed forward another five miles to within -eight miles of Valencia, the enemy's last big air base on Mindanao, it was announced today. It was doubtful whether the Japanese still were using Valencia, but| of its capture would give the Americans additional facilities for bomhing the remaining enemy strongpoints on the island. The field, built by the United States army air force in the Far East in 1942, consists of two all-weather grass strips, one 4000 feet long, the other 5000 feet The 31st division, which was closing on Valencia, was less than 40 miles from a junction with the 40th division advancing southward. A meeting between the two -would bisect Mindanao lengthwise. On Luzon’s east coast the 1st]

cavalry division gained five miles to

a point within three- miles of Port pon, a seaplane anchorage south Infanta.

TOKYO SAYS BRITISH

“IN - MALACCA“ STRAIT

? By UNITED PRESS Tokyo said today that a British task force had penetrated Malacca strait between Malaya and Sumatra for the first time in nearly three years and engaged Japanese - warships, The task force comprised ‘two cruisers and three destroyers, a Tokyo broadcast said. After a short encounter, it « asserted, Japanese units sank one destroyer.. The Japanese units ‘presumably were based at Singapore, southeast the Strait,

PETAIN SEEKS TO PUT

ALL BLAME ON LAVAL

PARIS, May 17 (U, P.).—Marshal | Henri Philippe Petain, former

“THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1945.

RUSSIA DELAYING ACTION AT PARLEY

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which was night., The Big Four agreed fo consult tbefore submitting any major amende« ments to the Dumbarton Oaks plan, Those consultations now are going on, but in this case it means waite |ing for a reply from Moscow since all. the other big. pdwers are in agreement, Authoritative sources . said the United States was prepared to give the Soviet Union until tonight. If Moscow's reply is not here then, the United States will present the regional compromise formula as its own suggestion rather than as thas of the Big Four. Stassen Offers Plan Many chief delegates had feared that the early departure of Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov weuld lead to the current difficuls ties,

announced Tuesday

French chief of state, sought to| The trusteeship issue is not too

shift full responsibility for his goverhment's collaboration with Germany to former Premier Pierre Laval at preliminary questioning, it | was disclosed today. Asked why he had appointed

Laval if he disliked him, Petain! { replied: 1 ‘hoped he would improve. »

badly bogged down. It started from scratch at this conference. .. Yese | terday Cmdr. Harold E. Stassen pre sented's so-called “working paper.® It incorporates the ideas of seve

|eral nations, using the U. 8. plan

| as the base, wgfhout prejudicing the | right” of any nation to offer amende ments.

nications room. We cut the wires. The case of the Polish govern“The cellar doors were closed so | ment-in-exile, however, has one we ran out just as two more gliders | | serious flaw. Legally and morally landed, giving me help, We, cov- it appears unassailable but poered the guards, who were too!litically it has weakéned its posiscared to shoot. Mussolini came to! tion by internal dissention. the window. and I yelled to get] Rift Must Be Closed back, in case shooting started. Then| some Polish leaders regard the 1 pushed.the scared guard from, cyrgon line, with territorial comthe door and ran upstairs Into pensation at the expense of GerMussolini's room. | many, as the best Poland can hope Fled by Plane | for, under the circumstances. “Mussolini said, when we landed These have suggested a settle-| in parachute suits, that he didn't! ment on that basis. Premier Mikknow whether we were American, | | olajezyk was the leader of this British or ‘Italian. I took him in. 8TOUD. .!| _ Another Polish group were in-| a small cub plane back to an air fexibly Des I any ALE and| | rangement. Therefore, M. Mikolajezyk re-| signed, leaving the goyernment-in-exile split, while the Red army i advanced across Poland and set up la puppet regime at Warsaw.

“We had three planes ready put him in one. All thrée took off, | so that Italian fliers wouldn't know which way to follow. My men at) the castle came down the cable car that ran up from the valley,| o dear | and then destroyed the cable, leav- | sss Dries Iuay Tow oe a ing the Italian guards to COME ,,..aoneq the Yalta formula aldown on foot. |together. Poland is not at San “The armored detachment I had | prancisco. She may not be at the sent up via a minor trail wasn't] peace table. But it there exists needed.” any chance whatever of any ameliIn such wise was the world’s first | | oration of the situation. friends of Fascist taken, admittedly a daring | | Poland aie convinced. the rife bejob—a story easily believed as We! iween Poland's constitutional leadwatched the giant 39-year-old Skor- | erg must be closed.

yeny S60 15,000 OUT JUNE 1 Tn Hitler's Castle | PARIS, May 17 (U. P).—More He flew Mussolini to Vienna in.n 15000 soldiers with eritical while another party rescued his| ores above 85 points will ‘be refamily and took them to Munich | leased from the European theater Where Mussolini was taken later. |,nq headed for Home by June 1. Actually, . the - Italian dictator | headquarters announced last night. stayed at Hitler's castle on .Obersalzburg; perhaps in the very room | I am writing in, “Mussolini's mind was keen,” Skorzeny said. “On the train from | Vienna to Munich he talked at length of his task in salvaging Italy after the war. plete ‘plans. rn For his daring rescue job, Skoe-| the kni vei never cross, one of Germany's highest.

through the north side of the bulge and started toward Liege. We ‘inever broke through. We might use {spy tactics against bandits such as { Tito, but not against nations like | | America and Britain. He had com- | .1 pelieve Hitler killed himself,” | Skorzeny went on. “He had said ‘would capitulate but that pledge ended | {and thus he saved mgny thousands ‘No Futher Hope’ "lof lives by relieving us of oaths as With typical German military soldiers.” thought, Skorzeny said that all|} The same thought has been exGerman soldiers would have fought [pressed by many captured officers, had Hitler lived and so ordered. |even by Field Marshal Karl Gerd Furthermore, he came up with | von Rundstedt himself. . the oft-stated story to the effect | So ended the interview, in the that the Germans heard that Amer- | early morning. . We came downica planned to attack Russia, and |stairs, listening to the clicking of he wanted to be on our side for that (automatic pistols as M. P. guards effort. {prepared for the descent of the “But I had no further hope when | swashbuckling Skorzeny. I'll say this: He was the true February,” he said. Nazi throughout, and walked out “And as for my leading German With his head high—with a flock of troops in American uniforms behind | American soldiers probably wishing your lines, that is not true. I wag| he'd make just-one dash for freein charge of a unit assigned to!dom.

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Von Papen-Due to Face War Criminal Indictment

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who to appoint-as-its- prosecutor in

the role parallel to that of Justice to newspaper reports he has beebip ert Jackson for the United

arrested. Supreme headquarters States. announced yesterday that Doenitz | was under allied orders and in ef- |

fect an allied prisoner. rangements with Jackson and other Von Ribbentrop Missing {allied representatives for preparing Former German Foreign Minister | and prosecuting the charges against

Eden said the British representatives, when named, would make ar-

Eden said; adding that every effort, Sir Geoffrey Mander, liberal, is being made to arrest him and|asked if Eden was able to say tha‘ bring him to justice. [swift justice would be brought to The status of other big names in |bear on Goering, whom he called the actual or potential field of war “this loathsome criminal.” Eden criminality included: replied “I hope so.’ . Heinrich Himmler—According to| “I cannot at present say when the his wife who was found near Bol- |lrials will begin,” Eden said, “but zano, Italy, he was believed killed | | preparation of charges and making in Berlin with Adolf Hitler. This | of necessary arrangements for the view lacked convincing support. |irials involved consultation with our Frau’ Himmler and a 15-year-old |allies, and this is bound to take a daughter to be treated as refugees, little time.” po political prisoners. Moscow Hits Delay oncerning Hitler and Himmler, | ‘prom Moscow came réstive comthe latter's wife sald “They are paints against any delay in the

better off dead.” trial of war criminals, Red Star, Ley Captured [the Soviet. army organ; accused the _ Robert Ley—Leader of. the Nazi [allied commission in London with “labor front-—captured by American |undue delay, airborne troops 40 miles south of | “Justice is moving . with the Berchtesgaden. One report said he | brakes applied,” Prof Alexander tried to poison himself after his Trainin wrote in Red Star. “The capture. - | punishment of war criminals is a Marshal Henri Philippe Petain— |necessary step in the battle for a liminary questioning to|lasting peace and a stable democshift full responsibility for his gov- (racy. Peoples won the great strugernment’s collaboration with the [gle with Hitlerite Germany. They Nazis to Pierre. Laval, (will win the battle for justice.” Laval--Still in Barcelona, where| Trainin observed’ that the London he and some of his henchmen fled [commission “required long months” “by air, so far as was known. Ma-~|t0 draw" up lists of potential war drid reports said a British warship | |criminals—four lists of Germans. he ‘was expected to take him to France |Sald, .ore list of Italians, one of

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