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

mander of the Sixth Army group
in southern Germany, said the Ger
man national redoubt was crumb-
ling and final, conclusive victory
may come at any moment"
6. American Army forces drove
across the Inn river and captured
Braunau, birthplace of Adolf Hitler
80 miles north of Salzeburg. Another
column pushed 10 miles southwest
of Braunau to within SO miles of
BerchteSgaden.
7. Other Third Army troops rae
ing toward a junction with the Red
Army in central Austria captured
the by-passed Danube river Fortress
city of Passau and reached the
Neufelden area II miles northwest
of Linz. Some reports said Linz was
in Russian hands.
8. Still another Third Army COL
umn thrust across the Czechcoslo-
yak border in a siX-mile advance
to within 80 miles southwest of Pill
sen and 81 miles southwest of
Prague.
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Baltic Naval bases of Rostock and
Warenmuende and also seized Fehr-
bellin, % miles northwest of Berlin.
10. London dispatches said 1OO,-
900 German troops in Denmark and
southwest Holland appeared about
to surrender.
Dramatic Breakfasts
The equalization and British oc-
cupation of Hamburg was announced
in a series of dramatic broadcastS
from the German-controlled radio
in the big port, up until at least So
hours ago the headquarters of the
Doenitz government.
The fall of Hamburg knocked out
the southern anchor of the northern
redoubt and opened the fortress
area to floodtide of Allied troops
surging toward Denmark.
British troops entered the big port
soon after noon. The Hamburg
station said they ordered l p. m.
curfeW except for utilities workers.
Hamburg police were entrusted with
enforcement of the curfew, but it
was announced that the British
would intervene with arms in the
event of noncompliance.
Radio Hamburg finally woat off
the air at l p. m. with the playing
of Deutschland Uber Allies and
Beethoven's agmont overture and
defiant cry, long live Germany"
by the woman announcer.
Next to Berlin, Hamburg prob
ably was the most bombed city in
Germany. Though it escaped the
final run of battle, the city already
was heaped with rubble from the
fierce air commandment.
A dispatch from Marshal Mont
gomery's headquarters said the
Germans were attempting to flee
from Schheswig- Holstein ports just
south of Denmark aboard every
type of boat afloat under hail of
bombs and bullets from Raj planes.
By midday, dozens of inlets and
harborS on both the east and west
coasts of the Peninsula were swarm
',g with hundreds Of ships, trawlers,
fishing smacks and tramp steamers.
They apparently are using any
thing which will float and the whole
sea is dotted with craft" and Raj
pilot said.
The greatest traffic jam of the
war was piling up behind the ports
as the Germans fled in panic from
the advancing British and Canadian
armies.
Great confusion was reported be-
tween Lubbock and Kiel. In the
first Is missions this morning, Brit
ish planes destroyed Or damaged 375
vehicles. Some 1900 vehicles were
destroyed in the Luebeck-Schwerin-
Wismar triangle yesterday.
Troops of the British Second
Army's Sixth Airdrome Division
contacted Russian tanks in the
Wismar area at the northeastern
corner of the northern redoubt af-
ter 5O-mile dash from Lubbock.
Wismar was captured by the air.
drome units.
The British slashed through re-
treating German columns contain
ing thousands of motor and horse
drawn vehicles in their pell-mell
advance.
United Press War Correspondent
Richard D. Mcmillan reported that
hordes of Germans were rushing
into the British lines crying:
Where can we go? The Russians
are coming"