The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1945-05-03

up. The Allies already were NOV
ing foodstuffs into Holland.
The Paris radio said the foreign
minister of Major Vidkun Quisling's
puppet government of Norway had
arrived in Copenhagen to discuss
the surrender of perhaps 100000
German troops in Norway.
A broadcast by the Hamburg radio
IN the last hours it was controlled
by the Nazis indicated that surren-
der arrangements for the Czecho-
slovak redoubt around Prague were
in progress.
A broadcast decree by Hamburg
purported to declare Prague hos
pital town"-apparently an open
city, not to be defended. 1t said
negotiations for the T'eorganiza-
ton of political conditions in the
protectorate" of Bohemia Moravia
had begun.
Only a few days ago the German
radio said the loss Of Prague-and
now-fallen Berlin-w9yld mean the
loss of Europe.
Whole Cabinet Dropped
A German diplomat in Zurich
told the Exchange Telegraph Agency
that Doenitz had dismissed the en-
tire Nazi cabinet which served Adolf
Hitler and was appointing as new
ministers only those men whom he
believed would have the confidence
of the Allies.
Only the appointment of Count
Ludwig Schwerin Won KroSigk as
foreign minister to succeed Joachim
Won Ribbentrop has been announced.
The Exchange Telegraph dispatch
said the remainder Of the list would
be published soon.
Another exchange telegraph dis
patch from Zurich said Doenitz was
expected soon to dissolve the Nazl
party organization and already had
ordered the arrest of several hun
dred leaders. including Martin Bor-
mann, party chief, and DR.. Robert
Ley.
The same dispatch, however, said
reports also were circulating that
Doenitz had arrested the wife and
children of Heinrich Himmler and
threatened to execute them if he
tried to contact the Allies again.
Where Doenitz has set up his pro-
visional capital was not known. He
was believed to have fled Hamburg
as British troops approached and
the British Press Association said
bo h. ho
base town of Kiel.
Raj Mosquitoes attacked the Kiel
naval base four times last night,
perhaps in an effort to persuade
Doenitz that further resistance was
futile
Highly reliable sources in London
said arrangements had been COM
pleted some time ago for the two to
five German divisions in Denmark
to surrender as soon as Allied troops
reach the country.
British Second Army troops fast
were approaching the Danish Dor
der today. Supreme headquarters
has prepared military mission to
fly into Denmark and establish con-
tact with King Christian at the
earliest possible moment,
The Allies conducted negotiations
with DR.. Werner Best, Reichscom-
missioner for Denmark, through
Swedish Intermediates informants
said.
Tit Stockholm correspondent of
the London Daily Mail said Will
helm Bull, who will become Danish
premier as soon as the German
capitulation takes effect, told him
by telephone from Copenhagen that
Denmark already has a de facto
peace
"The Gestapo is inactive" Bull
Bald. I'VE merely are awaiting
british Marshal Sir Bernard L.
Montgomery before my new govern
ment officially takes over the adj
ministration. Everything is under
control and we are waiting for the
German equalization to become eff
fective."
Word of the approaching capitu-
lation of German forces in south
west HOllanQ, estimated at 10 ,OOO TO
10000 men, came from authoritative
United Nations sources at the World
Security conference in San Fran
cisco.
Surrender Expected
These sources said German resist
ance In Holland has ceased and that
formal announcement of surrender
may be expected at any time"
Supreme headquarters at Paris
refused to comment on the report,
but dispatches from there limited
that it may be true. 1t was recalled
that Lieutenant General w. Bedell
Smith, chief of staff to General
Dwight D. Eisenhower. conferred
with Nazi occupation officials on
the shipment of food into the &C.
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