The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-15
Reds Alone
Capture
Il Millions
Moscow Lists
Grim Price Foe
Poid for Power
BY TOM OCHILTREE
Associated Press Staff Writer

NNsNse 'esn SNafA
Moscow announced today that
the Red Army slew or captured
l2,770,000 enemy troops in al
most four years of war on the
eastern front and had taken
n ore than 100000 prisoners
since Germany's unconditional
surrender.
Among the prisoners rounded
up since the Reich's equalization
were l0l generals. The an
nouncement did not say, how
ever, whether the Russians had
captured Field Marshal Ferdi-
nand Schooner or Col. Gen.
Otto Woehler, commanders of
troops in Czechoslovakia and
northern Austria who fought on
after Germanys surrender.
Yesterdays roundup of no..
600 Germans brought to 3,O0O,-
600 the total killed or captured
by the Red Army since it
launched its offensive Jan. IL.
Moscow said.
HUNT HIMMLER
British security police and in
telligence officers are leading an
intensive search for gestapo
chief Heinrich Himmler in the
Flensburg area Of Germany, 4
dispatch from Flensburg said.
Declaring that the people OF
Russia. Poland and Czechoslo-
vakia are entitled to try the
Axis war criminals, a Moscow
radio commentator said that the
punishment Of these men is an
essential feature of the coming
organization of peace. The COM
mentator asserted that mot one
of the Fascist chieftains" is in
nocent of CT m es committed
against Russia, Poland and
Czechoslovakia.
The unconditional surrender
Of the German forces on the
channel islands yielded to the
Allies large quantities of arms
and equipment including Is
inch coastal batteries, field
pieces, anti-aircraft weapons
and several small vessels.
IRISH ON DEFENSIVE
In Dublin the conservative
Irich Times took issue with
Prime Minister Churchilrs Sum
day speech criticizing Fires
neutrality stand in the war and
said IT was IAN open secret that
the Irish army throughout the
war worked in fairly close co.
operation with the British gen.
eral staff"
The newspaper sa d that
Prime Minister Eamon--be- VAL
era was automatically correct
in expressing condolences to the
German minister on Hitler's re-
ported death, but from the
broader point of view of Ire
lands relations with the victori-
Gus il was first class blunder."
A British spokesman labelled
as exaggerated reports pub
lished in London that Marshal
Tito of Yugoslavia had been or
dered premptorily to withdraw
his troops from Istria and the
Adriatic port of Trieste.
AWAIT DECISION
The spokesman said that the
position of Britain and the Unit
ed States that Trieste should re-
main under Allied control unrI
the Peace Conference settled its
status had been communicated
10 the Yugoslav government
through enjoys at Belgrade in
an atm osphere of frankness and
friendship.
Trieste had been awarded
Italy after the First World War.
The London Daily Herald said
the Italian government Of Pre-
mier Ivanoe Banomi had limited
it is ready 10 resign if Trieste
remains under Yugoslav con-
troll.
1t. Gen. James II. Doolittlc,
commander of the u. S. Eighth
Air Force and the man who or.
gained and led the first air At
tack on Tokyo, will return to
Washington ''for . new assign
ment."
There seemed little doube |,
that Doollttle will receive a Pa