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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, MAY 13, 1945        ^      ^
PRICE TEN CENTS
REPORT HIMMLER TAKEN
Bitterest Fighting Since Iwo Is Raging
Discharged Men Pour Out oTArmy
Want Home, Fun, Sleep; First One Raced for Bus Without a Word
Mors than 2,000 ehcerinc and laughing American vatarans ot World War n raced out of UA Army camps and into cIvUiaa life Saturday, with upwards of $300,000 in their pocketa and threa Words in their hearts: home, fun and sleep.
To hundreds, discharge undar the new Army point-rating aystam came with atunning surprise. More than 1,000 had just returned to their camps from 45-day furloughs, fully expecting to return to combat immediately. A large group dis¬ charged from Fort Dix ware v«t- rrans of the 27th Diviaion, now fighting on Okinawa.
it will probably never be known who waa the first high point man to get his discharge from thts greatest of wars, but T/Sgt. Benja¬ min H. Mellinger, 28. of Fort Wayne, Ind., who beat 3 other dis¬ chargees to the pay window at Camp Atterbury, Ind., at 9 a. m. EWT, has a valid claim. All red tape   except   the   final  atep  were
.     completed at Atterbury on Friday.
I    Just Ban fer Boa
1^      Metllnger, a veteran ef the Asla-
•^ Pacifio Theater of War with 94 points won as an anti-aircraft ftm^ ner In the coast artillery, sprinted from tbe pay window to a bus without giving oft a single quota¬ tion for history
The last day of Army life for these men was filled with the red tape of discharge procedure. After papers wero checked, flnal physicnl examinations given and final dis¬ ability claims preaented, gold- embroidered discharge emblems were sewn above the right pocket of the only bit of Army life the men would take with them, one complete  uniform.
Then came the highlight of the day-the handing out of discharge papers and flnal pay, plus the first installment of $100 on discharge pay. H'ania • Whlt« ShIrt
"This is an important sr.lemn moment," Brig. Gen. Madison Pear¬ son told 1,200 discharges at Fort Dix, N. J. "You have one thing In common; you have served your country In her hour of need. . . . Good-bye and  good  luck."
"I   feel   like   I'm   in   a   dream," •aid   Joe  Strube,   Saipan   veteran, of New York. ^    "All  I want to do Is get Into a
I W-white shirt," said Arthur Cook, also of New York. Both had ex¬ pected to rejoin the 27th Division in Okinawa; instead, both were dis¬ charged at Fort Dix.
In Camp Atterbury, Ind., 34 high point men sprinted from the pay window to the nearest bus with¬ out a word of fari»wcll. At .Teffcr- »on Barracka. Md., three dis¬ chargees roared out of camp ycll- Ine "Out of the wav —We've got lots of thlnrs to do."
At Fort Sheridan III., Jalin M. Grant said he would take the first train out to see his mother In Omro, Wis., whom he kissed good¬ bye on Fridav when he wound irp « 4.'5-day furlough. "And   she  thouRht  ahe   wouldn't
Pl. see   me   until   V-J   Day,"   he aaid.
^ "This   is  the  best  surprise a man
W ever got."
i    Some Will SUy In
y      There were only a few who were (Continued on Page A-ll)
Achmed Abduilah, Author, Is Dead
New York, May 12. (UP)— Achmed Abdullah, famous for hla many adventure stories, died of a heart ailment tn Prubsrterian Hospital   today,   his   e4th   birth-
^Mora than SO of his books had been publlahed and ha wrote plays and fllm scripts and maga- dne short stories.
Abdullah waa reared a Moslem but sbt yeara ago was converted to the Catholic faith. His wife aatd today that he waa the son of the late Grand Duke Nicholaa, Russian commander in World War I, and a daughter of the Bmir of Afghanistan, being bom at TalU In the Crimea. His parents were divorced when he waa about alx years old and his grandfather adopted him, she added.
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TITO REBUKED BY GREW IN DISPUTE DNTRIESTE,ITALY
Wants Port Under Allied Control Until Peace Conference Acts
Washington, May 12. (UP)—Act¬ ing Secretary of State Joaeph C. Grew in a sharp rebuke to Mar¬ shal Tito of Yugoslavia announced today that the dispute! Adriatic l>ort of IVieste will remain under Allied control until "a deflnite peace aettlement"
Tha rebuke waa mada in a atam ttatenwnt which Mid the dlasuta had raised "the issue of settle¬ ment of international disputes by orderly process rather than uni¬ lateral action." In effect, it also accused Tito of bad faith.
Grew'a action waa taken aa a warning that all European resist¬ ance groups and factional armies must save their territorial claims for the peace conference. He aaid there are "30 or more territorial questions In Europe which require careful study before satisfactory decisions can be reached." Oreapled by Allies
Trieste, an Italian port during the inter-war period, has t>een oc¬ cupied by a mixture of Allied trooqis. Tito has demanded that Yugoslav forces be allowed to oc¬ cupy the area, and Italian dem¬ onstrators have protested the pos¬ sible loas of liie port.
Grew said the disposition of Venezia Glulia (the peninsula which includes Trieste) and orther disputed territories must "await a definite peace aettlement in which the claims of both sides and the peoples concerned will receive a full and fair hearing or be made a matter of direct negotiations clearly entered Into between the parties Involved."
"1 am convinced that no terri¬ torial problem can be solved by proclamations Issued in the wake of an army on the march," he said.
His atatement reaffirmed U. S policy that territorial adjustments should be made only "after thor ough study and after full consulta tlon and deliberation between the various governments concerned." Want  'OMslnterested  Control"
Quoting radio reporta that Yugo¬ slavs were setting up a "national federal government of Slovenia" at Trieste, Grew said the United States reiterated its view that "a disinterested military government" was essentinl In the area. Such control, he said, was necessary "in order not to prejudice, through sudden, unilateral action taken in (Continued on Page A-14)
'6 County Soldiers Discharged at Camp Dix
sixteen local soldiers were among 315 Pennsylvanians discharged from the Army at Fort Dix yester¬ day and the enthusiasm shown by the local former GI's at the dis¬ charge rerpmonles Indirated plenty of celebrating Is contemplated when they return to their families today. Practically all of those re¬ leased hnd been overseas for sev¬ eral years. All seemed elated to return to civilian life.
It was difficult for reporters to BCt reports with the hustle and h-istle of the day's activities at Fort ¦'x,  but  the  following  list of  the
jally discharged Is fairly accur¬ ate:
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B. Christopher, 61 Ckivier street; S/Sgt. James J MeGroarty, 76 Spring street; First Sgt. Joseph Purta. 62 Sidney street and Pvt. Robert E. Taylor, Washington street.
NANTICOKE — PFC I.«onard Fela. 22 East Noble street, and S/Sgt. Benedict D. Obazh, 410 East RldKc street.
PITTSTON — S/Sgt. Joseph # Dougher, 89 Frothlnsham street and S/Sgt. Joseph W. Gross, B3 Washington Terrace.
KIN(3STON — T-3 Peter P Danko. 288 Pringle street and PFC Anthony W. Trotsky, 12 Pulaski street. „,   ,
ASHLEY — PFC VIncenio RU»1- tello. 17 Ross street, and Cpl. John J   Pomicter. 29'4  Fall street.
I.UZERNE — PFC William T. Lelti, 584 Charles street and PFC Edward Matte, 323 Bennett street.
WYOMING — S/Sgt. George W. Ferrell. RD 3. Wyoming.
DTTRYEA — r-4 Paul J. Murman 276 Columbia street
American soldiers stand at the main entrance to Dachau, the most infamous of Nasi horror camps. Men of the 43nd Rain¬ bow  Division   of  United   Btatea
Tth Army who liberated thou¬ sands saw the appalling horror. The starved corpses were piled nearty te roofa awaiting crema¬ tion.
Nations Far from Unity On Security Program
Western Hemisphere Regional System Still Under Debate
San Francisco, May 12. (UP)- The Big Five conferred twice tO' day on the controversal issue of regional security arrangements, and while some progress was made, it was learned authoritatively to¬ night that the conferees still are far from a final understanding on the matter.
Representatives of the United States, Britain, Russia. China and France met in thc quartera of Sec¬ retary of State Edward R. Stet tinius jr. this afternoon, recessed for two hours, and then resumed their discussion shortiv after fi p. m. PWT. After the first meetirtft, British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden, who leaves the conference for London tomorrow morning, re¬ mained behind to talk with Stet tinius for more than an hour.
Pan-American Plan at Stake
It was learned authoritatively that the Big Five representatives recognized the need for maintain¬ ing the integrity of the Western Hemisphere's regional system but feared opening the door too wide because that might mean admit¬ ting many other military alliances that could threaten the efBc^cy of the world  organization.
They also recognized the need for Insuring that the world organ- iration be the primary mechanism for dealing with aggression. But that in the event this mechanism is unable to deal properly and effectively, nations may then in¬ voke the right of self-defense.
No Decision Reached
The big powers thoroughly ana¬ lyzed the United States proposal on regional arrangements but no decision was reached on any phase of it and It was understood that some representatives were refer¬ ring the issues barft to their gov¬ ernments.
In any event. It appeared that the Big Five were together on two points:
1.—To make provision for self defense in the world charter.
2.—To provide for A world or¬ ganisation   with   primary   control.
The British were underatood to have expressed the viewpoint that the American proposal as it now stands may not give adequate pro¬ tection to the world organization. Thc British hinted they wanted to see the regional arrangement pro¬ posal broadened, so that It would be possible for members of the British Commonwealth to come to the defenae of one another in the event of attack. ,
But at the same time, the British are eager to avoid any revision that would make possible the entry of other regional arrangements, such as the Arab Federation.
It had been believed earlier that an American compromise in this dispute over regional security ar¬ rangements, might remove the stalemate toward world security agreement. The compromise had the unanimous support American delegatioOi
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FORD'S gIrMAN plant TURNING OUT TRUCKS
With Occupation Forces, Ger¬ many, May 12. (UP)—Motor trucks are rolling off assembly lines ot the Ford Motor Company plant in Cologne in the first industrial re¬ vival of Its kind aince the Allied occupation of Germany, it was dis¬ closed today.
The first 3,000 2H-ton trucks, ex pected to be assembled mostly from material already available, was ready V-E Day. SHAEF author ized operationa May 4 and the wheela began to turn May 7.
The plant is using (3erman work¬ ers who had operated it for the Nazis and who have been rehired after careful screening by Intel¬ ligence officials.
EIGHTH ANNIVERSARY FOR BRITISH RULERS
London. May 12 (UP)—King (3eorge VI and Queen Elizabeth celebrated the eighth anniversary of their coronation today.
U.S. AIRMEN BLAST JAP FORCE IN CHINA
-U.S.
By WALTER RUNDLE
Caiungklng, May 12. (UP) 14th Air Force fighters today blasted Japanese troop concentra¬ tions east of the air base city of Chihkiang, objective of an enemy drive smashed by the Chinese this week. A CSiinese communique said CJenerallssimo cnilang Kai-Shek's forces had inflicted 1,000 casualties on the Japanese in two days' fighting on that front.
Maj. On. Claire L. CSiennaulfs fighters caught an estimated 1,000 Japanese troops around Tungkow, 66 miles eaat of Chihkiang, and hit them with bombs and gunfire.
Japanese gun positions were bombed in the Palma Shan area, north of Tungkow.
Tho C!hinese communique said Tungkow was recaptured by the Chinese Thursday and that the vic¬ torious forces continued eastward to take the villages of Lungtanpu, and then Taohwaplng, 21 miles west of Packing. PaoWng is the base from which the Japanese launched their drive against Chih¬ kiang.
Chinese ground forces and Amer¬ ican airmen were assailing Japa¬ nese transport lines northeast of the Hunan province battle front.
Mindanao
Airports
Falling^
2 Divisions Advance; Cleaning up Luzon; Australians Attacking Wewak, New Guinea
By RICHARD O. HARRIS
Manila, Sunday, May 13. (UP)— Swiftly-moving columns of Amer¬ ican divisions, pressing enemy forces from the north and south, have captured one Japanese air¬ drome and are within a mile of another in central Mindanao, Cien. Douglas MacArthur announced to¬ day.
The 31M (Dixie) Division ad¬ vancing northward along the Sayre highway in the mountainous in¬ terior secured the Maramag air¬ field, while the 40th (Western) Division smashed southward 10 miles from its beachhead on Maca- jaiar Bay to within a mile of ths Del Monte airfields, the Allied communique reported.
The two Yank columns are now less than 40 miles apart on ths main highway through the heart of Mindanao and are rapidly closing In on other enemy airfields, lliese fields long ago wera neutralised by Allied air power but the Japaneae left fairly strong garrisons on them. Surprise I^awdlng
Strong forces of tiia 40(h landed Thursday at Macajalar, cau(ht ths enemy by surprise, and dashed to tto yiUace of Aiae ths same day. nmXiMy crtiekvd the first enemy Uniita line aad drove ahothsr six miles to the vicinKy of the air strips.
Ths 40th ran into numerous aerial bombs, uaed aa land mines. In Its advance toward Del Monte's three air strips.
As the Japanese defenses crum bled in the north, 24th Division "dogfaces" were steadily pushing the enemy back frr.,i the Davao port area of southern Mindanao into the hills between the Talomo and Davao Rivers. The enemy fought stubbornly and the Amer¬ icans had to break up aeveral night counter-attacks north of Davao and near thc town on Mintal, four miles to the west. Luzon Columns Converging
On Lu.-.on, two Yank columns converging on the Ipo damsite, 20 miles northeast of Manila, closed the gap between them from four to two miles. One unit was north of the dam and the other lo the south.
Allied light naval units patroling the east coast of Luzon destroyed several small enemy craft.
Australian and Netherlands In¬ dies troops continued to gain in the Tarakan oil district of Dutch Borneo with close support by Allied planes, advancing a mile north of the Djoeata oil fields agninst a scattering of opposition Allied heav>- bombers attacked thc enemy airfield at Balikpapan In southern Borneo and destroyed barracks nnd shipyards on the west coast. Patrol piancs destroyed r freighter and two coast.il vessels in Borneo waters. Aimsira Attacking Wewak
The Australian Sixth Division, which gained fame in the Middle East campaigns, opened a crush¬ ing offensive against Wewak. bl,- Japanese bnse on the northerr coast of British New Guinea which waa by-passed by MacArthur'f forces more than a year ago in Jhe drive toward the Phili-irinr- "Dlgger" troops landed on the coast east of Wewak while anothc column of thc same division closet* in on the base from the west.
When American forces skipped around Wewak and made landing; in the Hollandia nrea of New Guinea In April, 1944, It waa es¬ timated that from 20,000 to 60,000 Japanese were cut off around Wewnk, where the enemy had ex¬ pected a landing.
Units of the British Royal Navy and the Australian Navy teamed with American airmen to supijort the' Sixth Division's operation. MacArthur's communique said the drive was "aimed at the seizure of Wewak and capture of the air¬ strips" which would drive the enemy back into the trackless mountains.
China Coast Hammered Allied   heavy   bombers   attacked (Continued   on   Page  A-10)
Okinawa Hills Ablaze As 90,000 Men Clash In Caves and Pillboxes
_ 125 Jap Wafplanes Downed in Attack Which Damaged One Major U. S, Ship, Three Other Vessels Off Shore; Troops Penetrate Island's Capital
By FRANK TREMAINE
Guam, Sunday, May 13 (UP)—^The Japanese have lost another 125 warplanes in attacks on Anierican shipping in the Ryukyu Islands that resulted in damage to a major fleet unit and three other American vessels, Tt was announced today.
On Okinawa, U. S. troops penetrated the suburbs of Naha, the island'? west coast capital, in the bloodiest fighting since Iwo.
The ridges of southern Okinawa flamed as more than 90,000 U. S. troops and Japanese battled for the vital west coast port and island capital Naha and the chain of caverns and pillboxes reaching tp the eastern shore.
Progress was agonizingly slow for Lt Gen. Simon B. Buckner'a two Marine and two Army divisions who had to scorch the enemy out o( each stony redoubt and grope through the fog of their own protective smokescreens on the scconi day of the 10th Army's offensive.
"Our  flame-thrower  tanks  have
set the hills afire like burning hay stacks," reported United Presa Cor¬ respondent Ed Thomas from Vice Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner's flasship off Okinawa In describing the fighting on the central sector before Shuri.
On the eve of the attack, Buck¬ ner had warned that progress would bc slow and termed the operation "a co-ordinated continu¬ ation of local offenslvea" that have been ia progress ainee tbe laat "push" on April IS. In that three weeks period, our lines have crept lQKmaf4 ttoas 1,000 yards to three WlOm 'a large part of the advance being regiatered on the 19th, when the Japanese withdrew to new positions. Withstand PUnes, Ships
American naval and shore artil¬ lery havc been battering the enemy line continually, assisted by blows from the air, but have failed to materially weaken the Jap de¬ fenses.
As the Japanese death toll soar¬ ed close to 40,000 by actual count of bodies during the 41-day-o'.* battle, Tokyo broadcasta asserted that our  own  losses   had   reached
34,700 In killed and wounded.
Claiming that our forces had lost one-third of their total strength put ashore, the Japanese also re ported the destruction or knocking out of 489 American tanks and 141 artillery pieces.
The Japanese air attacks against Pacific Fleet units began Thursday evening. Nineteen of the 129 planes were downed by one destroyer, Fleet Amd. CSieaUr W. NImiU an¬ nounced. fUktiat at If ew FUry
'The already blocidy Okinawa fighting rose to new bitterneaa Uat urday as four 10th Army diviriens assaulted Japanese defenses. Heavy naval gunfire, artillery and sus' tained aerial attacks supported the drive.
On the west coast, the 6th Marine Division smashed through the little town of Amike just north of Naha. Marines swept on into the town of Takomotoji. which lies along the Awasa River just across from the capital.
The 9€th Infantry Division on the
east  coast  plunged  past the town
of Gaja to about a half mile north
(Continued on Page A-14)
NewLend'LeaseShipments To Russia Are Suspended
Will Be Confined To Nations Helping In Defeat of Japan
War  Sammary
OKINAWA—Americans battle for vital west coast port of Naha in bloodiest fighting since Iwo.
PHILIPPINES—Two American infantry divisions pound Japanese in north central Mindanao; con¬ verge on airfields,
CHINA—U. S. warplanes blast Japanese troop con¬ centrations east of U. S. air base city of Chihkiang.
Washington, May 12. (UP)—Sus¬ pension of new Lend-Leaae ship¬ ments to Soviet Russia, pending review of the whole mutual aid program in the light of Pacific War requirements, was disclosed tonight by Foreign Economic Ad¬ ministrator Leo "r. Crowley.
Crowley announced that "new shipments to Europe are being held up except those destined to countries now at war with Japan or to countries through which re¬ deployment of our troops now in Europe will be facilitated there¬ by." 9 Billion Sent to Reda
Russia is the principal Lend- Lease recipient which is not at war with Japan. To date Russia has received about $9,000,000,000 of Lend-Lease shipments or about 30 per cent of the total of shipments to  all  countries.
The British Empire has received about 60 per cent of all U. S. lend- lease, and these shipments can con¬ tinue since Britain is at war with Japan. The same is true of France and most other Lend-Lease re¬ cipients, except Russia.
"As I have frequently stated in testimony before committees of the Congress, Lend-Lease is purely an instrument for winning the war," Crowley said. Still Have War to Win
"Accordinglv It Is necessary with the end of hostilities In Europe to review Lend-Lease programs so that American resources will be distributed In such a way as to make the utmost possible contribu¬ tion to victory in the major war, war which we have still to win. Such re-cxaminntion and review now taking place."
Crowley then explained that pending completion of the review, "new shipments" were being held up to countries not at war with Japan or which would not be use¬ ful to our redeployment.
Later, a source close to the Lend- Lease picture explained that each shipment probnbly will require a decision to be made "on the merits of a particular situation." At any rale, he said, no ship fully loaded and ready to clear a US. port would be prevented from sailing IContinued on Page  A-10)
LEOPOLD'S RETURN IS DELAYED BY ILLNESS
Brussels, May 12 (UP)—King Leopold HI tonight Informed the Belgian government he does not in tend to return to Belgium Immedl ately due to Illness and that he de¬ sires Regent Prince C*arles to. re¬ tain his post.
Leopold's action was received with some surprise as it had been reported that ho planned to make a surprise appearance in Brussels Sunday at the celebration of the anniversary of the Pope's corona¬ tion.
Earlier, five Belgian cabinet min¬ isters had returned from Salzburg following a conference with the King.	
EVERYBODV8 QUITTINO
London, May 12. (UP)- The Jap¬ anese-sponsored Thailand govern¬ ment has broken off relations with Germany and all Gern>an subject- in Bangkok are under police super- vlElon, a Swiss broadcast said to¬ night.
No. 1 Nazi
Terrorist
Saidleld
Arrested by Doenitz; Goering Indicted with Airtight Case Naming Him Atrocity Leader
By EDWARD V. ROBERTS
London, May 12. (UP)—Heinrich Himmler, No. 1 surviving Nazi ter¬ rorist, was reported an Allied prisoner tonight and it was learned that Hermann Cioerlng, who hag denied any wrongdoing, has been Indicted as a war criminal on sev¬ eral booksful of evidence.
The Allied dragnet for the Nasi murderers and scavengers of over¬ run nations was rapidly catching the fugitives and dossiers and wit¬ nesses were being prepared for the judgment of international courts determined to mete out full expia¬ tion and punishment.
CBS Correspondent Charles Col- llngwood reported from Paris that Himmler. Nazi home front dictator, chief of the Gestapo and sponsor of such terrorists as the late Rein- hard Heydrlch, had been held un¬ der house arrest in Flensburg by Adm. Karl Doenitz.   -
"Doenita is now believed to have turned him over to British forces in that area," Collingwood said. Tight Caae en Goering
As for Ck>ering, "I would Ilka t<t prosecute him myself—we have aa airtight case against him," said a member of the United Nations war crimes commission.
Goering has been Indicted on at least eight counts, it was learned, all but one of them arising from his responsibility as a minister of the Reich for the criminal poUelea of the German government. Tha eighth count charges him with spe¬ cific responsibility for forced labor and slavery programs within (Jer¬ many in direct violation of tha articles of the Hague Convention.
Hitter named Goering commis¬ sioner for the four-year economio plan under which civilians from conquered countries were enslaved in conditions that frequently brought on wholesale disease and death. The actual documents out¬ lining and implementing the four- year plan are in the commlsslona hands. Missing Goebbels Indicted
Three other members of tha Reich's unholy hierarchy — for¬ mer Agriculture Minister Walter Darre, Paul Joseph Goebbels and Manpower Director Fritz Sauckda — were indicted with Goering. Darre is being held pending trial, Goebbels Ls believed to hava Im¬ mobilized himself with Adolf Hit¬ ler in Berlin, and Sauckei is still among  the   missing.
Goering was among the first of the top Nazis indicted by the com¬ mission, having been placed in "nomination" by both Poland and Czechoslovakia. The charge.f wera investigated and documente.l and : received full approval last Novem¬ ber. Responsible For Lidice
Other Indictments rharge Goer¬ ing with responsibility for settinc up "illegar' courts which sentencea tc death 4,000 Czechs, for tha Lidice massacre in reprisal fer Heydrich's assassination for atroci¬ ties at auch death camps as Dachau and Buchenwald and for the establishment of the Juwisb extermination factory at Ausch¬ witz.
The Czechoslovaks charge that all these horrors came about under Goering's administration befora Himmler took over.
Two    additional    war    criminal (Continued on Page A-14)
Czech Germans 700,000 Prisoners Taken
London, May 12 (UP)—Russian armies have captured more than 700,000 German officers and men in the last five days, mopping up vir¬ tually the last (ierman-iield pockets along thc Baltic and in Czecho¬ slovakia, a Soviet communique an¬ nounced tonight.
Only a few hundred square milcs of Europe remained to be cleared as the Germans ceased the last vestige of resistance and resigned themselves to capture by the Red Army. Surrender  in Disorder
The last hold-out groups were units under unyielding Field Mar¬ shal Ferdinand Schoerncr and Col. (Jen. Wehlcr In Czechoslovakia. In this sector, troops of the First Ukrainian Army Group captured 168,000 Gemians who surrendered in disorder between Wednesdny and today, including seven gen¬ erals.
More  Uian 56,988 other Germans the war.
fell to the Fourth Ukrainian Ar in   central   Czechoslovakia   durln the same period, while the Second Ukrainian Army bagged 135,000, ln« eluding  eight  generals. Baltic Unita Quit
In Austria, the Third Ukrainian Army captured 14.756 prisonera while in the far north all Germaa garrisons in the Vistula Estuary, the Hei Peninsula north of Gdynia and Danish Bornholm Island coni¬ pleted their surrender. CSaptiwa totaled 69,106 In the Baltic sector including 12 generals, ons of them Maj. Gen. Matter, chief of stait of the Second CJerman Army.
In Latvia, 140,408 prisoners ha4 been captured In five days includ' ing 28 generals.
For the first time in more thaa ¦ a   year,   the   nightly   Soviet   com- ' munlque gave no place names and, it was indicated that the next ofB¬ cial bulletin  might  be the last ei <