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cover the capitulation of Germany
to the Allied powers, according to
dispatch from the Associated Press
bureau in Paris. He returned to the
French capital at dawn yesterday.
An Army field censor passed 500
word dispatch he wrote on what he
had seen and heard personally at
Rheims. The remainder was written
after he returned to Paris.
Subsequent developments sur
rounding Mr.. Kennedy's beat" and
suspension from filing privileges
follow:
BY noon yesterday Paris was
af1ame with reports that the story
was about to break, coming from
many quarters Of the globe. 1t was
learned and authenticated that
Gen. Charles de Gaulle was writing
speech to commemorate the oc-
casion. From Stockholm a British
agency carried fiat statement
that the event had been announced
by the Swedish radio.
Paris dailies, under London date
lines, asserted without qualification
that Britain was only awaiting the
official announcement.
About 2:30 pm, Paris time $3.50
a m, EWTD European radio monitors
picked up broadcast from the
FlenSburg radio to the German
armed forces of land, sea and air
ordering them to cease resistance
This Immediately was flashed to the
world and reached the Associated
Press Offices in Paris through normal
channels.
On the basis of this fact, Mr.
Kennedy interviewed SHAEF. CEN
sorS and demanded immediate re-
lease of his story from Rheims.
Protests Political Censorship.
He asserted that according to
SHAEF's long established policy
military security was the only con-
sideration on which correspondent s
| reports were censored. He said that
in view of broadcast reports from
Flensburg, London and Stockholm
there was no military security in
volved, and he also openly notified
the cenSors that he intended to file
his story.
Mr.. Kennedy said he considered
the function of his staff and him.
self was to report the news, and
that he did not feel bound by any
considerations of political censor
ship.
Mr.. Kennedy made no secret OF
his intentions to transmit the
Rheims story.
Before his message was completed
Brig. Gen. Frank Allen, chief censor
in Paris. notified the Associated
Press office that the Associated Press
Paris staff was suspended until
charges are investigated" The order
was amended few moments later
to include all Associated Press cor
respondents on the western front
Gen. Allen authorized the Asso-
ciated Press to notify it's New York
and London Offices of the suspen-
sion, but through an error the au-
thorization failed to reach all ranks
of censors and messages to this
effect were delayed for four hours
Telephones Cut Off.
Meanwhile, telephones in the AS
ISOLATED Press Paris Office in the
Scribe Hotel were cut off and the
Associated Press staff at SHAEF
was instructed not to enter the
briefing room where correspondents
normally are given information on
military movements.
Mr.. Kennedy continued his efforts
to obtain from SHAEF censorship
the reason for his suspension in
terms Of military security.
AS he returned to the hotel where
majority of the correspondents
both live and work, numbers OF
them shook his hand and congratu-
lated him on the stand he had
taken and the tremendous beat he
had scored-even though it had been
at their expense.
At II pm, seven hours after the
suspension was imposed, Gen, Allen
sent an official order resembling the
suspension for all members of the
Associated Press staff except Mr.
Kennedy.
SHEAF censorship subsesently
permitted any and all correspond.
ents to quote details from Mr.. Ken
nedys dispatch concerning what hi
saw and heard at Reims.
London Tells of Filing.
Meanwhile, the Associated Pres.
bureau in London filed to the New
York office this account of how Mr.
Kennedy's dispatch was received ane