The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-04-29

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San Francisco that Germany hac
agreed to unconditional surrender
was unfounded. Senator Tom Con
nally D-Tex, vice chairman o.
the American delegation to the Sar
Francisco Conference, asserted
however, that the surrender was
expected hourly"
Supreme Headquarters said no
German capitulation offer had
been received here but that did
not mean none had been made
directly to one Or more Allied
capitals. The San Francisco re
ports said an ultimatum had beer
delivered to Heinrich Himmlel
after the Gestapo chief asserted
Adolf Hitler was dying and he
(Himmler} wanted to give up to
the United States and Britain.
The Allies were reported to
have said Germany must sur
render completely to the United
States, Russia and Britain OF
face intensified destruction of hel
remaining physical assets and
military forces.
The hour for such tactics was
growing late, for the Reich now
was split into two traps, one on
the north barely the size of In
diana and one on the south little
larger than Colorado.
The southern one was cruYnb-
ling badly at its very core under
the blows of the U. S. Third and
Sevent hand French First armies
The Seventh Army was but Is
miles west of Munich, consider
ed the northern bastion of the
Alpine redoubt, and the U. S.
Third Army was q miles away
on the north.
As the tide Of Third Army tanks
and troops struck down a surer.
highway toward Munich, their field
radios picked up broadcast on
me clty's wavelength announcing
a free action of Bavaria" revolt
and asking the Americans to
bomb Field Marshal Albert Kes-
selrlngs headquarters at Pull
fcn, SIX miles south of the city.
Later Gauleiter Paul Giesler
Of Munich went on the air and de-
CARED the revolutionaries had
Oeen dispersed and that a "treas-
enable transmitter" was trying
10 spread confusion
Meanwhile, Munich was being
oeeply outflanked by 1t. Gen. Alex.
amer NJ Patch's rampaging Sew
en!h Army, which seized $4,000
prisoners IS miles northwest Of
tenth Armored Division tanks
N "a 2O-mile dash drove up to
saessen on the Austrian frontier
~ miles southwest of Munich,
'i'eh poured on across.
Nol'hWeSt of Innsbruck-north.
1 s,n gateway to the Bremen Pass
ie eaulng down to Italy-the Amer.
~ taHs stood at the entrance to
n ne austrian US Tyrol, through which
lass lass all the main east-west com.
Joiileauons in the Anime re.
aa sey , miles to the west. the
ir'n o' infantry Division began pour.
It,, across into Austria at BERG
W. W.T., an 1a-mile southwark push
sio mmle the 10th Armored Divi.
bera eleaned up in the Lands
west area, % miles almost due
nvi ~ u Munich, the 45th Infantry
-ir..ss 'o n stormed across the Bari
citv e' 81 miles northwest of the
c7o uther Seventh Army forces wer,
s sns the pincers from the soutl
,outh were III schongau, 40 mile,
cest of Munich.
ba sea, P "a Third Army, whicl
ia qsseo 2S434 prisoners Saturday
w. o me squeeze from the north
Cd LOO 0oth Infantry Division reach
Mn niiiaI,hkrehen, y miles North O
sita 'l =. and 70 mile: from Dachau
Ns7i VI tne most notorious of al
w Wbi concentration !, camps.
from D e. mere was M further wor,
vbi ,J ne 18th Armored Division
sorths.. cad jabbed into Austri;
OF Hltler's Berchtesgaden
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