The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-10
Nozi Boats Surrender
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 mel Islands, which lie between Frances Norman and Breton Penin- sulas, in the summer of 1940 after overrunning France. The small Brit ish garrison was withdrawn just be- lore the Germans moved in and no lighting occurred in the islands.
 The Germans fortified the islands and they withstood heavy air and sea bombardment during the Allied invasion of France in June last year. At that time, they refused demand for their surrender
 German torpedo boats based in the islands haraSsed Allied shipping during the invasion, but a subse- quent air and sea blockade ended this menace and cut the islands off from the outside world.
 The total land area of the islands is 75 miles and the population be- fore the war totalled nearly 100000. A number of civilians were taken off with the British garrison in 1940, however.
 The four principal islands in the group are Jersey, Guernsey, Alder ney and Sark.
 The U-boat which put into Wey- Royal Navy was the first German submarine in this war to surrender in an English port.
 The submarine had surfaced about 50 miles off the English coast and was contacted by two British sloops. Its crew of five officers and 43 men surrendered to Comdr. N. J. Weir of the Royal Navy. The U-boat was flying the British ensign when it arrived at Weymouth.
 An air ministry Communique an- nounced that up to dawn, the RATS coastal command had sighted six other submarines on the surface heading for surrender points in con- pliance with Germany'S uncondi- tional surrender.
 Except for the death throes of fleeing Nazi units in the southeast, fighting had ceased everywhere ill Europe.
 Premier Marshal Stalin announced that by-passed German pockets in Latvia, in the Vistula delta near Danzig and on the Hel Peninsula above the Polish port of Gdynla had joined in Gernanys general equalization.
 45,0O0 Surrender
 Up to late hour last night. 45, 900 of perhaps 100 900 German troops in the 18th and 18th armies in the Latvian pocket had laid down their arms. The Russians occupied the German anchor towns of Lie paJa and Tukums. Another 21,000 filed into prison cages from the Vistula Delta and Hel Peninsula.
 From Copenhagen came word that 150 Russian troops had landed on the holdout Baltic Island of Born holm yesterday to accept the sur render of German occupation forces who signalled their equalization.
 A British admiral and 2,0OO sail ors took over command of Copen- hagen harbor, Denmark, after the last German ship except few Red Gross vessels had departed.
 Ore German vessel yesterday shot down an Allied plane near the Danish island of Langeland, pos sibly the last RAF plane to bt doMned over Europe.
 In Prague, liberated by the Rec Army yesterday, Czechoslovak pa triotS and Soviet troops joined ir hunting down Nazi snipers who were still firing from roofs and cellars
 The First and Second Russian Ukrainian armies were in hot pur- suit of German forces fleeing west through CZechoslovakia in an at. tempt to escape to the American lines.
 The Second Army advanced T; miles northeast from the BornC area to Benesov, 9 miles iron Prague.
 The German pocket in AuStri; and Jugoslavia also was under at tack from two sides. The Russian captured the big industrial city o Graz and Bruch to establish a lin across the eastern third of Austria while the Jugoslavs closed in iron the south against scattered oppoSi tion after liberating Zagreb.