The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-11

man troops, under Col. Gen. Baron Maxiinilian Won Weichs, had forced Q crossing of the Drava, indicated that Belgrade soon might be in Nazi hands.
 The German reports indicated that Serbian resistance in the south had been crushed and that Serb armies to the northwest of Nish were fleeing. There was no report of any hard.fighting on the Jugo. slav front.
 Claim British Retire
 The high command made no rec port on its operations in northern Greece but the official news agency, DNB claimed that British troops had been ordered to retire to secon- dAry lines for defense and claimed this indicated the British planned to leave the Jugoslavs to their fate and bring themselves to safety with the greatest possible speed"
 A communique said that more than 10000 prisoners, 70 guns and much other booty" had been cap- tured in central Serbia.
 The one last group of the Jugo. slav army still capable of fighting was smashed in South Serbia yes. terday. Part of 1t was crushed and the remainder captured near Krivo- lac, the high command said.
 German forces were described as in "hot pursuit" of Jugoslavia north. west of Nish, the high command said, adding that the troops des- troyed in central Serbia comprised several divisions"
 Nish is west of the Bulgarian frontier between Belgrade mad Sko. pile. [ Before the high command issued it's cofnfnunique well informed Ger. man quarters had asserted that the Jugoslav army had smashed and broken up and that tens of thou- sands of prisoners and tremendous quantities of war materials were in German hands.
 Jugoslav Army Is Gone
 "rhe Jugoslav army no longer exists aS on army" an informant said.
 Anti.tank and anti aircraft guns, spare aircraft parts and other equipment have been captured In enormous quantities, the informant said.
 Capitulations by the Greek army in eastern Macedonia are "contin- uing according to plan," the inform ant said,
 German air formations continue devastating attacks on Jugoslav and Greek troops, informants said, bombing and machine gunning. In attacks on Jugoslav communications German planes bombed railroads and derailes e military train in the Ljubljana area, 1t was said.
 Informants said that they did not know whether the German army in Greece had made contact with the British empire army. + They asserted, however, that Adolf Hitler was determined not only to defeat but to destroy the British army.
 They said German forces pur- suing the Jugoslavs west of Nish had captured artillery, machine guns, machine pistols, gasoline Sup- plies, hundreds of trucks and columns of horse drawn wagons laden with food of all sorts. Inspired newspapers bitterly at. tackled the United States and Grea, Britain, mentioning President Roosevelt personally, for "instigatine a hopeless resistance" by Jugoslavia
 A blitzkrieg political campaign against Jugoslavia by Germany ant its Balkan satellites gained mo- meritum.
 Germans Enter Croatia A special high command conn munique announced that German armored forces enter Zagreb, capi. tai of Croatia, last night "amidst the jubilation of the populace."
 Axis plans had been announced for the creation of Croat Stat' under Ante Pavelich, who was de- nounced in 1884 as the brain behind the assassination of King Alexandel of Jugoslavia and French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou. German newspapers proclaimed the Liberation" of the German Maribor area of Jugoslavia.
 Hungary announced its occupa' ton of the Bacza region of Jugo slavia which Jugoslavia obtained from Austro- Hungary at the end O the last war.
 A United Press Sofia dispatch said that the Bulgarian press hat announced that Hermann 0oerine Nazi No. 2, had assured Professor Nicholas Stoyanoff, president of thu Bulgarian Macedonian Institute that "very soon Macedonia will at tain It's freedom" - at the ezpens. | of Greece.
 0oering,s telegram. the Sofii newspapers said, was in response t' one from Stoyanoff, asserting tha' the entire Macedonian people wouls cooperate in the flint against Jugo' slavia and Greece.
 Bulgarian Premier Bogdan Filof was quoted by the German officia News Service, denouncing Jugoslavii | for bombing Bulgarian cities ana asserting: Bulgaria is ready 4 necessary Co preserve the interest," of the Bulgarian people with ever' means at her disposal"