Evening star., 1945-05-06
100000 Surrender in Austria:
Quis|ing Asks Norway to Fight
Sd Army Drives
Ahead II Miles in
CzechosIovukiu
BY the Associated Press.

PARIS, Sunday. May 6.-Two
German armies in Austria, num-
bering possibly 100000 men, sur
rendered to the Americans yes
terday while Gen. George S. Pat
ton hurled his United States Sd
Amy into the attack against the
German 7th Army in Czecho-
sovakia.
Outside Norway, this was the last
German army opposing the western
Allies.
Gen. Patton's attack, to spur the
Germans to quit or fight, gained up
to II miles into Czechoslovakia
against weak to moderate opposition
while Czechoslovak patriots and
German occupation troops appar-
entity were battling for control of
Prague.
Nazis Resisting Reds.
Farther east in Czechoslovakia the
Germans still were resisting massed
Russian forces which were less than
SIS miles from Gen. Patton's spear
heads.
Capitulation in Central Austria of
the German 1st and 18th Armies to
Gen. Jacob L. Devers' 9Th Army
group came less than "a hours after
similar unconditional surrender of
100000 German soldiers in the
north to the British and Canadians.
Despite the surrender, British
troops engaged in brief fight with
some resisting Germans as they
marched into Copenhagen. Entry
into Hollands great cities awaited
the clearing of mine fields, dis
patches from the liberated nation
said.
Prince Bernhard of the Neither
lands said members of the under
ground had informed him German
troops shot into crowds of civilians
celebrating the surrender in West
ern Holland, that many casualties
were inflicted, and that an explana-
ton would be demanded of Col.
Gen. Johannes BlaSkoWitz, the
enemy commander.
Attention on Norway.
Attention focused on occupied
Norway, where Fuehrer Karl Doenitz
may have taken refuge, but the
Swedish foreign office declared Off
cially that reports of imminent sur
render in Norway were premature.
Allied headquarters summed it up
by saying all resistance to Gen.
EisenhoWer's armies on the active
fronts where his forces were engaged
had ended, save for the 7th German
Army on Gen. Patton's sector.
The surrender in the south COW
cred part of the United States Sd
Army front in Austria and here
Austria's third city of Linz was oc-
cupied by Gen. Patton's troops un-
opposed.
Whereupon, the Sd Army went
over to the attack on 110-mile
front, driving as much as II miles
into Czechoslovakia.
~ Miles FROM risen.
Cracking into the Czech's little
Maginot Line against small arms
and sporadic artillery fire, Gen.
Patton's troops were % to 27 miles
west of the arsenal city of Pilsen,
which in turn is so miles west of
Prague.
AS American tank columns roared
across the border they accepted
surrender of the 18th Panzer Di-
vision, the last full-strength elite
armored force of the German Army
in all Europe.
The attack rolled east along a
front extending from a point 80
miles northwest of Linz to the city
of Asch in Czech's Sudetenland.
Five divisions went over to the at
tack, and advanced columns were
battling both west and southwest
of Pilsen.
After Linz fell, the 18th armored
and 26th Infantry Divisions cap
tured a bridge across the Danube,
rolled on across and captured the
twin city of Urfahr.
Way Paved for Linkup.
Thus the Sd Army laid bare Czech
oslovakias south flank and paved
the way for an early linkup with the
Russians fighting through Austria
west OF Vienna.
Gen. Devers, emerging from the
surrender conference near Munich,
told correspondents, Its all over
on my front"
To avoid unnecessary bloodshed,
both the American and German
commanders broadcast to their
troops to cease firing at once, al
though the order does not become
TWo additional men from,
the District area haze been re-
ported killed in this 1Dar. See
ION the Honor Roll" Page Az.