Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-03
Prague's Capture Believed Near;
New Peace Rumors in Moscow
Port Falls After
Germans Declare
ltOpen City
Ey the Associated Press.

LONDON, May 3.-The Ger
mans today declared Hamburg
their greatest port and the core
of resistance in the north, an
open city and surrendered it to
British I'd Army troops without
a fight. Prague, Czechoslovak
capital, was declared a hospital
city"
The regime of the new Fuehrer
Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, was
thus further hampered in its an
nounced intention of carrying on
the suicidal fight.
The British marched into Ham
burg at pm. q am. Eastern war
time0
Just an hour previously, Admiral
Doenitz, who had exclaimed de-
family against surrender when he
assumed Hitler's bloody mantle, in
Dictated a willingness to turn Prague
over to the Western Allies.
Pledges Allegiance to Doenitz.
An order of the day later broad
cast from Prague by DR.. Karl
Frank. German minister of state
for Bohemia and Moravia. pledged
allegiance to Doenitz and the men,
ory of Hitler, but mentioned no fur
Their resistance.
For us the Fuehrer is not dead"
the order said. The oath of al
legiance we awore to him from now
on is valid for every German to
Admiral Doenitz. We will stand at
his side and obey his command
Every one must do his duty. Long
live the nation
Russian Armies under Marshals
Andrea Yeremenko and Rodion Y.
Malinovsky last were reported by
Moscow dispatches to be masslng
on the southeastern border of b.
hernia for push toward Prague.
This was the city which Propaganda
Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels re-
Gently called the second capital
of the Greater Reich, saying its
fall, along with Berlin, would end
the war.
Station Takes Final Leave.
The announcement of Hamburg's
capitulation. read over a station
which has been the voice OF the
German high command since the
Russians battered into Berlin, said:
ut is doubtful whether We will
again come on the air with news.
We take leave of our listeners. Long
live Hamburg! Long live Ger
many!"
The German national anthem,
Deutschland Uber Allies" was
played. Before taking final leave,
the announcer said that another
important announcement" would be
broadcast shortly.
The announcement concerning
Hamburg came less than u hours
after Premier Stain had announced
the capture of Berlin by his be-
sieging Russian forces.
The broadcast was made in the
German language in the name OF
Secretary of State Ahrendt.
Last Authoritative Station.
The Hamburg station over which
the order was broadcast was the
last authoritative radio station in
German hands. All others had fol-
lowed its lead in transmitting the
official announcements, and it alone
had carried the German high COM
mand communicates.
"Achtung! Achtung" (attentionD
said its regular announcer, intro
ducing Ahrendt.
The Reichsender Hamburg now
broadcasting an important an
nouncement for the population of
Hamburg.
Hamburg has been declared an
open town. British occupation
troops will enter the city at noon
today.
The commander in chief of the
British occupation troops has de-
creed the following:
"a curfew for the entire popula-
ton of Hamburg will come into force
at 1900 hours q PM today,
Workers of the electricity and water
works are exempted from this cur
few. The duration of the curfeW
depends on the discipline of the
population of Hamburg. The Ham
burg police is responsible for the
carrying out of this measure.
DEMONSTRATION of the rules and
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