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Huge Armada
Near Okinawa
NIppons Say Warplanes
Do Damage to Flotilla;
Allied Sources Silent
By Frank Tremalne
(United PifM War Corraipondrnt)
Guam, March 30 l Tokyo
said at least five allied task
forces, Including 17 battleships,
were blasting away at Japan's
southern approaches for the
eighth straight day today in prep
aration for an invasion of Okin
awa island in the Ryukyus.
Japanese estimates of the task
forces which the enemy said has
been hitting installations all the
way from Japan proper to the
Sakishlmas, 600 miles to- the
southwest, ranged from 150 sur
face ships to 2,000, including
transports and landing craft.
One Tokyo broadcast said "al
most the entire American Pacific
fleet" was mobilized for the as
sault. Unit Near Mainland
Though the assault was center
ing on Okinawa, naval and air
base island 330 miles southwest
of Japan Tokyo -said one task
I' dav "around" Taneea island nnlv
A 25 miles off the coast of Japan
itself.
A penetration to Tanega would
be the closest approach to Japan
by allied warships of the war and
would represent a ringing chal
lenge to the remnants of the Japa
nese fleet to come out and fight.
(A German Transocean dis
patch recorded by the United
Press in London said 150 Amer
ican Superfortresses raided Tokyo
this morning with new-type in
cendiary bombs and caused fires
at several places.)
lap Planes Attack
Radio Tokyo said Japanese
planes attacked the task force
around Tanega, a 30-mile-long is
land off the southern tip of Kyu
shu, southernmost of the Japa
nese home islands. One of three
carriers and a battleship or cruis
er were damaged seriously by tor
pedoes launched by Japanese "as
i sault units," Tokyo said.
V Tokyo, also said a task force,
presumably the same one, appear
ed south of Shikoku, east of Kyu
shu, later today and was under
"furious attack by our air and sur
face units." An additional cruiser,
was crippled, and probably sunk,
a destroyer damaged and a large
transport set afire, Tokyo claimed.
Four other American and Brit
ish task forces were attacking is
lands in the Ryukyus, principally
Okinawa, Tokyo said. Estimating
the number of ships at 150, the
Domei agency said they Included
17 battleships, seven auxiliary air
craft carriers, 20 cruisers, 19 de
stroyers, 20 minesweepers and 92
landing-ship-tanks.
Big Fleet Spotted
But the Tokyo newspaper Yo
miuri Hochi said that the "enemy
comes with 2,000 ships of all
kinds.''
Domei said six battleships,
seven cruisers, 14 destroyers and
Okinawa. American troops were
reported by Tokyo already ashore
on the tiny Keramas.
Huge British Task Unit Joins
In Attacks on
By James A. McLean
(United Pros War Correspondent)
Western Pacific Base, March
22 (Delayed) ilii A powerful
British task force, including bat
tleships and aircraft carriers,
sped out from this American base
early todav to land the first major
British naval blow against the
Japanese in this war.
The task force, twice abandon
ed by the British since the last
war as unnecessary, was headed
, north to Join the American fleet
In fulfilment of Prime Minister
Churchill's pledge that Britain's
navy would fight until the final
annihilation of the Japanese.
Its target is the Ryukyu islands,
the long stepping-stone chain
leading directly to the enemy's
Saw
Dispatch Says Nazi Capital
Moved to Small Town in Alps
Rome Reports Eichstatt, Near Berchtesgaden,
- Now Center of Hitler Rule; Last Stand Expected
London, March 30 flIE) A Vatican city dispatch said
today that the German government has begun functioning
at Eichstatt, a small town in the pavarian Alps, near Berch
tesgaden, after evacuating Berlin.
A carefully-buried item in Osservatore Romano, official
organ of the Vatican, revealed that Mgr. Cesare Orsenigo,
apostolic nuncio to the German government, held a special
celebration at Eichstatt Wednesday in observance of the
anniversary of the Pope's coronation.
Vatican household sources pointed out to the United Press
" in Rome that Orsenigo re
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First Sergeant Edgar L. (Eddie)
Wilson, 23, who was killed in ac
tion on Luzon last Feb. 4, while
serving as a paratrooper with an
airborne division. Before meeting
his death in the Philippines, Sgt.
Wilson saw action in New Guinea
and at Leyte.
Four Boys Back
From Lake Trip
Their feet smarting from blis
ters, four Bend youths who skied
into Elk Lake on Monday and
Tuesday, returned to Bend today
with a report that snow was as
deep as eight feet in some drifts,
and that the average depth was
from three to five feet. Three
feet of snow rested on the ice on
Elk Lake, but in some places en
route back the boys encountered
clear spots, they reported.
The snow was so deep at the
south end of Elk Lake, where the
boys stayed in a cabin, that it was
drifted up to the eaves of the
structure.
The quartet skied a total dis
tance of 42 miles, 21 miles each
way from where they left their
automobile near Camp Wickiup.
They started to ski up to the lake
at 11 a.m. Monday, traveled all
night and reached their cabin at
4 p.m. Tuesday. Returning, they
left the lake at 8:30 a.m. yester
day, reaching their car at 9:30
o'clock last night.
The boys, believed to be the
first to reach the lake this season,
are Rowan Brick, 16, 418 Florida
avenue; William Harris, 16, 542
Arizona avenue; Robert Mills, 17,
of 1717 Division street, and Tisme
Smith, 18, of the Deschutes auto
court.
Japs in Far West Pacific
Vinmolanrl
(A Pacific fleet communique
announced today that carrier
planes from the British task force
raided the Sakishima group,
southwest of Okinawa, Monday
and Tuesday.)
As the hulking gray shapes of
the British warships moved out
into the Pacific, Commodore Wor
rail R. Carter, USN, commander
of service squadron 10 for the Pa
cific fleet service force, sent a
blinker message to the task force.
"Good hunting, good luck and
God speed to you, British broth
ers," the message said.
Vice Adm. Sir Bernard Raw
lings, RN, commander of the task
force, replied:
"Thank you very much. I hope
cently expressed his intention
of leaving Berlin to follow the
Hitler government to its new
temporary capital.
The dispatch thus constituted
the most authoritative indication
yet that Adolf Hitler has written
off Berlin as capital of Germany
for a last stand in the Bavarian
and Austrian Alps surrounding
his mountain-top home at Berch
tesgaden. Nazis Worried '
The disclosure came while nazi
propagandists were attempting to
whip up German morale in the
face of admittedly disastrous al
lied break-throughs in the west.
Lt. Gen. Kurt Dittmar, official
commentator for the German
high command, conceded that the
reich's present plight confronted
the German soldier witn tne ques
tion, "What is the sense in con
tinuing the fight."
"The enemy's intention to annl-
hilate-tW entire German nation
furnishes us with the only pos
sible answer," he said. "As long
as we are faced with such pros
pects, a fight to the last is the
only alternative. ...
"We must not quit, no matter
whether we fight on the Rhine or
to the east of it. Any time gainea
counts in these days.
Yanks Liqiii
230,000 Germans
Third American Army GHQ
March 30 lPi Lt. Gen. George
S. Patton in a commendation is
sued to his third army revealed
today that since crossing the Mo
selle the third army has put out
of action an estimated 230,000
German roops.
The third army has captured
140,142 Germans and killed or
wounded an estimated 90,000
more.
It has captured 6,484 square
miles of territory and 3,072 cities
and towns.
It has crossed 24 rivers.
In the past two weeks the third
has captured more than 95,000
Germans.
German 'Chutists
Kill Aachen Mayor
Aachen Germany, March 29
(Delayed) IIP) American authori
ties assigned guards tonight to
every burgomeister behind First
and Ninth army lines as a result
of the "parachute" assassination
of Franz Oppenhof, mayor of
Aachen.
Oppenhof's murder by three
German paratroopers Sunday
night was the first direct nazi re
prisal against German nationals
actively cooperating with the al
lies. It fulfilled a threat voiced
against him over the German ra
dio. Americans
we meet again, Commodore
nearer to Tokyo."
The messages were significant
for the tack force was destined to
hit the Japanese within 500 miles
of their home islands.
The task force is a potent unit,
spearheaded by the most power
ful and newest vessels of the
British fleet, such as the 35,000
ton battleship, King George V,
and the 23,000-ton carrier, Illus
trious. The Illustrious, with a speed of
more than 31 knots, carries ap
proximately 70 planes and, with
other carriers, provides the suffi
cient aerial support to British
fleet units since the disastrous
loss of the battleship Prince of
Wales off Malaya.
Nazis Reported Surrendering
At Rate Faster Than in Last
Days of First World Conflict
Troopers, Moving Under Security Blackout,
Race Virtually Unopposed Through Reich as
Resistance Fades; Some Units Swing North
Paris, March 30 (U.R) American tank columns were
within a few, miles of completely severing the Ruhr from
central Germany tonight and both the First and Third Ameri
can armies were closing in on Kassel and the Wester river line
165 miles southwest of Berlin
A First army spearhead reached Fritzler on the Eder
river, only 14 miles southwest of Kassel, while a Third army
column reached the Tresysa area, 29 miles southwest of
Kassel.
Other First army spearheads swept through Paderborn,
186 miles west of Berlin, moving at such a rate that. a dis
patch from First army headquarters said they had now vir
tually cut off the Ruhr from central Germany.
function Near
This column was moving to a' junction with Field Marshal
Sir Bernard Montgomery's forces. These troops, still under
a security blackout, were reported to have moved past
Muenster, 227 miles from Berlin.
The distance between the First army spearhead and
Montgomery's columns was not known exactly since Mont
gomery's forces seemed to be swinging somewhat northward
toward the great German port cities of Hamburg and Bremen.
It was reported that the Germans were surrendering at a
rate of more than 2,000 per hour faster than they gave up in
the closing days of world war I. ; -
The closest column to-BeiHn accordrhff to allied reports
was' the First army spearhead at Fritzlar where it was 185
miles from the reich capital. German accounts placed U. S
troops at Bad Wildungen, 185 miles from Berlin.
Reports Not Confirmed
Reports of uncertain authenticity said American forces
already had reached the suburbs of Kassel, 165 miles from
Berlin.
Other reports said the Americans were nearing Fulda, 190
miles southwest of Berlin.
Three new divisions, two of them armored outfits, were
announced as in action with the U. S. First army.
The U. S. Seventh army entered the ancient university city
of Heidelberg after a telephoned" effort to arrange its sur
render tailed.
Unconfirmed reports broadcast by the London radio said
beaten, dispirited Germans were surrendering at the rate of
2,000 an hour today.
Coupled with the capture of
U. i. irst and Third armies alone yesterday, that indicated
a bag of perhaps 70,000 enemy troops by all allied armies in
48 hours and the brenk-up of Germany's armies in the west.
Front Blacked Out
Virtually all the western front was under a military se
curity blackout, but field dispatches filtered through the cen
sorship made it clear that the greatest break-through of the
western war was tearing the German lines apart.
The American First army was loose on a wide front east
of the Ruhr valley and racing north toward an imminent
juncture with British Second army forces on the VVestphalian
plain.
Vanguards of the British force were reported in the VVest
phalian capital of Muenster, 227 miles from Berlin, and fan
ning out to the northwest-toward Bremen and Hannover.
The advance was going ahead so rapidly that at one point
a dramatic "hold your fire" order was flashed to RAF fliers
swarming out to pound the Germans' fleeing road columns.
BriliHh Give Chose
British tank forces were so close on the heels of the
retreating enemy that the air attacks had to be called off for
a time to avoid hitting allied troops.
In the Muenster area, the British were less than 40 miles
from a juncture with U. S. First army tanks, last reported at
Paderborn, 190 miles southwest of the German capital. The
Yanks were ranging out almost unopposed to the north and
east of that road center after a sensational 100-mile flanking
sweep from the Giessen area.
On the First army's right flank, the American Third
army's plunging tank columns were plowing northeast and
east from Giessen at a mile-an-hour clip, striking along the
main Frankfurt-Berlin superhighway.
The German high command said Third army forces were
at Bad Wildungen, 186 miles southwest of Berlin and 19 miles
southwest of the Hessian capital of Kassel. Kassel, keystone
of the Germans' Weser river line, was being outflanked from
the southwest and southeast. Its fall would break the enemy's
last major water line short of the Elbe and Berlin.
Many Surrender
The allied-controlled Luxembourg radio said one of the
greatest mass surrenders in history was under way all along
the western front and that revolt against the nazi regime was
imminent.
Vanguards of the First army were reported in and per
haps beyond the communications center of Paderborn, gate
way to the North German plain, and moving fast toward a
decisive juncture with Field Marshal Bernard L. Mont
gomery's British and American forces in the north-
At Paderborn, Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' First army
was less than 40 miles from a juncture with Montgomery and
59 miles southwest of Hannover, 12th city of Hitler's disin
tegrating reich.
The Americans were 49 miles southwest of Muenster, al
ready menaced by British columns advancing from the west,
and the Luxembourg radio said the city was reported draped
with white flags.
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Seven allied armies of the west strike with their full armored
power along the German 200-mile battle line east of the Rhine in a
series of breakthroughs that sent
heart of the reich. All spearheads
ably extended, and today British forces were reported in the West
phallan capital of MuentetJJerlln said Third army .forces .ware. 19
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Isles Off Cebu
Fall to Yanks;
'Drome Seized
Manila, March 30 (III Elements
of the Americal division secured'
the approaches to Cebu's big har
bor In the central Philippines to
day with Invasions of nearby
Cault and Mactun islands.
The main city of Opon on Mac-
tun island, where Magellan died
in the Kith century, was seized
by the assault troops while tiny
Cauit, a former seaplane base just
outside Cebu city's harbor, was
completely occupied.
The islands were the 29th and
30th invaded by Gen. Douglas
MaeArthur's American forces in
the Philippines.
Men I'nn Out
At the same time other units
of the Americal division continu
ed to fan out on Cebu Island
against only disorganized Jap
anese resistance.
One column which cut north
from captured Cebu city, capital
of the island, seized Lahug air
drome with Its two air strips to
provide another base for the
growing aerial offensive from
the Philippines.
A second force pushed south
along Cebu's eastern coast and
occupied the town of Naga, nine
miles below the Tallsay landing
beaches and 14 miles south of
Cebu city.
MaeArthur's communique said
there was only minor action in
the ground campaign on Luzon,
in the northern Philippines, where
an additional 1,338 Japanese
bodies were counted in the mop
ping up operations east of Manila.
INmilloiiH BlaMlod
Mitchell medium bombers and
fighter planes continued steady
attacks on enemy positions
throughout Luzon and Liberators
dumped another 200 tons of ex
l plosives at Legaspl, on the south
eastern tip or the island.
Heavy bombers also hit two
airdromes on Negros island, one
of the last two major islands in
the Philippines still held by the
Japanese.
GEESE ATTACKED
A slingshot attack on grvse
near the Gilchrist bridge was
brought to an ahrunt end shortlv
'before noon today by Bend offi
cers, after they had received a
call that five boys on a boat were
shooting at the watei'fowl. The
boys were told that It was a viola
tion of a city ordinance to molest
the waterfowl, and their "wea
pon" was confiscated.
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BULLETINS
U. S. First Army GHQ, March
30 0H U. 8. First army col
uniiiN, advancing 30 miles,
against vlrtuully no opposition
today reached Fritzlar, 14 miles
KouthwcHt of Kassel, and 185
nillcM from Berlin.
London, March 30 (lit ltaillo
LuxemlHMirg tonight broadcast
that there Is no longer a coher
ent German front and that
"there ure only separate fight
ing' zones" with allied troopH
meeting hut weak resistance.
With U. S. 7th Army, March
30 (111 V. H. Seventh army
forces entered the ancient city
of lleidellterg lute today after
their telephoned demuud to the
horgomclMter for surrender of
the city was rejected.
Willi If. 8. 9th Army, Mar. 30
(IP) Ninth army armored di
visions broke into the clear to
day and drove eastward agulnst
little or no resistance. A se
curity blackout still was im
posed on their advance.
Police Warn Dog
Tieup Approaches
A warning that all dogs In Bend
must be tied or penned up by
April 1, was issued today by Chief
of Police Ken C. Guliek, who
urged that no time be lost in ob
taining licenses, as that also is
the deadline for that.
The chief said that after April 1
the cost of the licenses is in
creased by 50 cents. He said that
licenses may be obtained at his
headquarters, in the city hall, or
from the county clerk.
17. S. Air Force Quits Base
At Laohokow as Japs Near
Chungking, March 30 l!i -The
14th air force abandoned its air
base at Laohokow Monday to es
cape entrapment by Japanese
armored columns which have driv
en through northern Hupch prov
ince to within three miles of the
city, it was announced today.
I he Laohokow airdrome, one of
the 14th's most Important bases
north of the Yangtze, lies approxi-
mately 330 miles northeast of
Chungking and less than 200
miles northwest of Hankow.
A Chinese army spokesman
said Japanese mechanized spear
heads were approaching Laoho
kow from Tenghsien, along a
highway extending from southern
Hunan province.
(A Tokyo radio broadcast re
corded by United Press at San
Francisco said the vanguard of
Japanese forces in Hupch prov
ince on Tuesday completely oc-
sllatnxdls
Drive
Across Austria
Along 5 Roads
Vienna Is Menaced as :
Soviet Legions Crowd
Toward Foes' Citadel ,
London, March 30 OB The red
army today was reported driving
on Vienna along live highways
south of the Danube and was only
30 miles from the Austrian capi-
tal of Sopron, which was reported
besieged.
The German high command ad
mitted the fall pf Darutlg and
Gdynia. , ,
The Germans, however, claimed
the soviet drive Into Austria had
been halted.
The rail lines are also vital to
the supply of the German forces
still holding out In northern Yugo
slavia. : '
The Germans were ' reported
massing troops along the Leite
river line Just a few miles In ad
vance of soviet spearheads for a
last stand to save Vienna. . .
Vienna Menaced
One soviet column threatened
to flank Vienna from the south.
Still another column clearing ,.
the western tip of Hungary was
within live miles of the Austrian
border and 40 miles southeast cy"
Vienna.-
Far to the north, the great Bal
tic port of Danzig lell into soviet
hands, a German army news
paper dispatch recorded by the
FCC In the United States said.'.
A soviet communique last night
reported only the capture of the
center of the city and the greater
part of its port area.
Marshal Feodor I. Tolbukhin's
Third Ukrainian army group
rolled up to the Austrian frontier
on a 14-mlle front yesterday and
a Free Austria radio broadcast
said the Soviets crossed the bor
der at several points, liberating
some villages.
Nazi Line Turned
The Soviets turned the German
defense line based on Lake Neus
ledler with the capture of the
border stronghold of Koeszeg, 19
miles southwest of the 130-square-,
mile water barrier and 50 miles
south of Vienna Itself.
Koeszeg also lies 31 miles
southeast of the big Messer
schmitt aircraft manufacturing
center of Wiener Neustadt and 165
miles east of Adolf Hitler's mountain-top
retreat at Berchtesgaden.
Another Third army group col
umn seized Kapuvar, 11 miles
south of Lake Neusiedler, seven
miles from the Austrian border
and 42 miles southeast of Vienna.
More than 100 other Hungarian
towns and villages were swept up
in the Third army group's ad
vances of up to 20 miles, among,
them Szombathely, 54 miles east
of Graz, Austria's second largest'
Industrial center.
OPERATION PLANNED
Seaton Smith, Bend high school
Instructor who Is a patient at the
Hahnemann hospital in Portland,'
will undergo un operation tomor
row, it was announced from the
hospital this atfernoon. Smith was .
reported resting more comfor
tably today.
cupled Laohokow.)
Purpose of the Japanese drive
against Laohokow, the spokesman
said, is to push further westward
the enemy's "continental west
wall," built up as a defense
against possible allied landings.
The spokesman said Japanese
troops are being rushed "contlnu-
iously" to the Shanghai sector to
reinforce coastal defenses against
feared allied amphibious ooera- -
tions.
Central News agency said Japa-
nose military authorities threat
ened to destroy all ol Shanghai
and let the garrison die defending
tha ruins rather than let allied '
troops obtain the city intact.
The slogan "destroy whole
Shanghai" was made public re-
eently at a Shanghai press con-'
ference directed by the Japanese.
Information officer, Matsujlma, '
Central said. v