Evening star., 1945-05-01
MAP on Page A-2.)

PARIS, May 1.-Gen. George S
Patton's Sd Army today crashed
southwark to within So miles of
Berchtesgaden as 1t. Gen. Alex
ander M. Patch sent his 7th Army
from captured Munich against
Innsbruck and the Brenner Pass.
The Sd Army entered Griesbach in
its closest approach to Berchtes-
gaden. The town near the Aus
trian border is is miles from Hitler's
birthplace at Braunau and Al miles
from Salzburg, rampant of the Nazis'
Alpine hideaway.
Gen. Patton's 11th Armored Divi-
sion crossed the Austrian border III
force at Oberkappel, q miles north
west Of LIMA city which the Ger
mans said was being approached by
the Russians from West of Vienna.
A meeting would hem in Czecho-
slovakia and trap all the Germans
in Bohemia and Moravia.
Reports persisted at supreme AL
lied headquarters that the Germans
might be expected at any moment
to accept the United Nations de-
mand for unconditional surrender.
Schwarzenbek Captured.
The British in the north captured
Schwarzenbek and reached Sahms,
II miles east of Hamburg and "a
miles south of Lubbock at the east
ern base of the Danish Peninsula.
Sahms is Sc miles below Kiel and 70
miles from Rostock, which Russian
armies northwest of Berlin are ap-
preaching. The American 82d Air
borne Division had a 3-mile-deep
bridgehead over the Elbe River just
upriver from the British.
Gen. Eisenhower hailed the cap
ture Of Munich, largest German city
yet to fall, in a terse order Of the
day:
ITO every member Of the Allied
Expeditionary Force: The whole
AEF congratulates the 7th Army on
the seizure Of Munich, the cradle of
the Nazi beast"
His appellation Of beast possibly
arose from fresh disclosures OF hor-
ror at the nearby Dachau prison
camp, freed just before Munich fell.
Snipers Being Mopped Up.
Gen. Patch, one of the heroes of
Guadalcanal, was the conqueror of
Munich, third city of Germany with
828,325 residents. A few snipers
were being mopped up and OCCASION
ally stray shells fell in the city.
The Sd Armored Division and 42d
Rainbow) and 45th CThunderbolt)
Infantry Divisions cleared the city
after help from the 18th Armored
(HellcaO and the Goth Armored Di-
visions.
Gen. Patch's men, at last reports q
day old, were within dozen miles
of Innsbruck (61,005) and 20 miles
of the Brenner Pass. Probably no
more than 10 miles separated the
7th Army from Gen. Clark's vic
torious command in Italy, but those
miles were separated by snow
capped Alps.
The French 1st Army, on the 7th
Armys right flank, was inside Aus
tria and the Alpine redoubt. The
French captured the aircraft center
OF Freidhrichshafen Q5,OOO), where
the Germans once made Zeppelins.
American and Russian forces
made additional functions southwest
OF Berlin, expiring under swift death
strokes of Russian divisions.
British armor and infantry moved
within 10 miles southeast of out
f1anked Hamburg and within II
miles west of the city. Their Elbe
bridgehead jutted to within Is miles
OF Lubbock and So miles of Kiel.
Troops south of the Elbe were within
81 miles of Denmark around cap
tured Horneburg.
The 82d Air-Borne Division, last
reported in action in the Siegfried
Line, forged an Elbe bridgehead at
Blockade, just southeast of the
British bridge at captured Lauen-
burg. ~.
The Sd and 45th Divisions bore