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Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery (right) reads over surrender agreement as Oerman officers wait for him to sign document which guaran
teed unconditional surrender of all enemy forces more than one million troops in Denmark, Holland and northwest Germany. Oerman dele- ;
gates (seated) are, left to right; MaJ. Friede, intelligence officer on Admiral Von Frledeberg's. staff; Rear Admiral Wagner, one of Von Frlede- .
berg's staff officers; and Admiral Von Friedeberg, commander in chief of German navy. Signal Corps radlo-tclephoto. .
Doenitz Recalls His U-Boat Fleet,
Subs, Ordered to Head for Ports
Fuehrer Lauds
His Wolf Pack
For Its Work
London, May U IP Fuehrer
Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz to
day ordered Germany's U-boat
fleet, most potent weapon left the
shattered reich, to cease hostili
ties and return to port.
The order, revealed by the German-controlled
Flensburg radio,
said continuation of submarine
warfare was impossible from the
bases that remained In German
hands In Norway and France.
Some 300 or more U-boats were
immobilized by the order, most of
them in Norway and the remain
der in isolated French ports. Up
wards of 600 others carrying,
crews totalling 20,000 men have
been sunk by the allies during the
war.
Doenitz's action ended nearly
six years of what probably was
the most destructive sea offen
sive ever waged.
Huge Tonnage Lost
Exact allied tonnage sunk by
U-boats has not been revealed,
but it probably was in eight fig
ures. Victims ranged from tramp
freighters to the British battleship
Royal Oak.
Many ships were sent to the
bottom within sight of the east
coast of the United States, but
an intensified air and sea patrol
finally drove the raiders back to
mid-Atlantic.
The oifensive reached its first
peak just before the allied inva
sion of North Africa and its sec
ond in the months preceding the
allied landing in Normandy.
A brief resurgence followed
last winter with the introduction
of a "floating lung" that enabled
the U-boats to re-charge their bat
teries beneath the surface.
Boats Recalled
Radio Flensburg said Doenitz's
order was dated last Friday.
uoennz, iirst as a suDmanne London May 7 UPiDiplomatic'
ZL Germsources said today that President
navy was the master-mind be-Truman and Prime minister ,
hind the U-boat campaign. He Churchill already were taking up ne p0ijsn telegraph agency
"l-nn,,?,"1 wlth rderS 10 with Premier Stalin the mysteri-! mouthpiece of the Polish exile"
j , j., . it ous Soviet arrest of 16 Polish : government in London, said the
hi? !.!!er'i?L.n ?nJJh,.rVlun(Jersround leaders. arrested Poles had led the Polish
sd if; fniH m mtrf that Official British quarters, mean-1 underground movement during
Sev'hKou. urecd ano,her P" German occupation of their homS
hlnurJXrltvTSi com- meeting f the big three to settle land.
Dressed Wff J verV nanW aspects of the Polish problem, I Among those arrested, the
area " he said "Continuation of ,he biggest controversy threaten- agency said, were Jan Jankowskl,
the 'struggle is impossible from!'"! Allied unity. (vice premier of the London gov-
the bases that remain I Although no arrangements were ernment and Its delegate in Pol-
"U-boat men unbroken in your believed yet made for a Big Three: and; three members of the Polish
warlike courage you are laying . conference, criusn aumonues "snaaow caoinet in Poland; the
down vour arms after a heroic ! said the need for high-level dls- chairman of the council of na
fight that -knows no equal. In cussion had become urgent with tional unity; leaders of the four
reverent memory, we think of Russia's disclosure of the arrests. I main Polish democratic parties
our comrades who have sealed i Diplomatic sources said the ar-, and Gen. Leopold Okullckl, last
their loyalty to the fuehrer and j rested men were among those commander of the disbanded Pol
the fatherland with their death." who had been recommended by'ish home army.
TEE
One Million German Troops
Japanese Vessels in Guarded
Sea Lanes Hit By U.S. Fliers
. Wreckage of 20 Ships Noted Following Bold
Strike By Airmen Over Straits of Homeland
Guam, May 7 (U.E The wreckage of more than 20 enemy
merchant ships remained today as evidence of a daring strike
by U. S. navy land-based planes on perhaps Japan's most
guarded sea lanes.
The ships, ranging from large oilers to small cargo ves
sels, were blasted by the navy bombers' in low level sweeps
over Tsushima and Korea straits, between Korea and Kyushu
and in the Yellow sea off western Korea. '
A force of nearly 50 Superfortresses struck near the same
Six Persons Killed
In Oregon Blast
Lakeview, Ore., May 7 (IB The
sheriff's office at Lakeview today
was investigating the explosion
of an unidentified object which
late Saturday killed a woma and
five children some 15 miles east
of Bly.
Those killed were Mrs. Archie
Mitchell of Lakeview; Sherman
Shoemaker, 12; Jay Gifford, 12;
Eddie Engen, 13; Joan Patzke, 11;
and Dick Patzke, 13.
The Rev. Archie Mitchell, ac
companying his wife and the chil
dren on the outing, was a slight
distance away from the others
when the accident occurred. He
was uninjured.
BLAZE IS CHECKED
Bend firemen Saturday after
noon were called to West Twelfth
street and Portland avenue to ex
tinguish a small brush fire which
they said caused no damage. Two
hundred gallons of water were
pumped into the blaze before it
was extinguished.
Truman, Churchill Expected
To Protest Arrest of Poles
CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, MONDAY, MAY 7, 1945
Surrender to Montgomery
Jarea today in a new attack on
the Japanese suicide plane
bases on Kyushu. The targets
were the airfields at Kanoya,
Ibushi, Oita and Usa. Early
reports said irood results wirp
obtained in the raids.
Four Ships Bugged
In the shipping attacks In the
enemy homewaters during the
week-end, the navy bombers defi
nitely sank four vessels, including
two large oilers, and heavily dam
aged at least 16 other cargo craft.
A number of the latter ships were
left burning and sinking.
Admiral Chester W. Nlmitz an
nounced that heavy units of the
U. S. Pacific fleet, In conjunction
with carrier planes and land-based
aircraft, continued the bombard
ment of Okinawa, although his
communique gave no further re
port of the 10th army drive on
Naha, capital of the island.
A front dispatch disclosed, how
ever, that three thousand Japa
nese were killed Thursday night
and Friday morning when they
came out of hidden caves and pill
boxes in the first large counter
attack since American troops land
ed on Okinawa.
United States and Britain to the
Soviets Inchon In the pro-
BEND'
i
Oil Wells Burn
AtTarakan as
Allies Attack
Manila, May 7 (U') Australian
and Dutch troops battled toward
the rich Paomesian oil fields on
Tarakan town. The oil fields,
just east of the town, already were
burning from Japanese demoll
tlons or shells from allied destroy
ers which were bombarding the
enemy positions with day and
night barrages. .
Using tanks, flame throwers
and demolitions, the Australian
and Netherlands Indies native
troops stormed through an intri
cate system of pillboxes and Inter
linking tunnels to take Tarakan
hill in the heart of the city.
Two other Australian columns,
in converging drives from the east
and west, captured the island's
airfield three miles northwest of
Tarakan.
Meld Repaired
The encircling movement drove
the Japanese from their mined de-
lenses around the airport and
Gen. Douglas MacArthur said that
Australian engineering units al
ready were repairing the field.
Allied bombers and fighters con
tinued the neutralization attacks
on Borneo's airfields and shipping
lanes in support ot tne campaign
on Tarakan. Fie coastal freight
ers, a river steamer and a num
ber of smaller craft were sunk
and several others damaged.
MacArtnur meantime announc
ed that Japanese casualties in the
Philippines during the past week
were 11,028 dead and 462 pris
oners, while American casual
ties were 391 killed and 1,323
wounded.
BULLETINS
Madrid, May 7 IP Spain has
Revered diplomatic relations
with Germany, It was announc
ed today.
London, May 7 Hit The Swed
ish home radio said today that
an Allied naval force of 48 ships
has been (righted at the entrance
to Oslo fjord and that a landing
on Norwegian noil Is expected
at any moment.
London. May 7 (IP) Marshal
Stalin announced tonight that
Marshal Ivan S. Konev's first
Ukrainian army had captured
long-henieged Breslau, capital
of Silesia and main Industrial
city of eastern Germany.
WJUMM
World Awaiting
Official News of
European Peace
London, May 7 (HE) A German broadcast said today that
nil remaining German forces in Europe have surrendered and
there were indications here that an allied proclamation on the
end of the war would be made tomorrow.
A speaker identified as German Foreign Minister Count
Ludwig Schwerin von Krosigk announced over the Flensburg
radio at :09 p.m. (5:09 a.m. PWT) that the high command
of the German armed forces had surrendered unconditionally
all "fighting troops" today.
The order for surrender was given by Fuehrer Grand Ad
miral Karl Doenitz, the broadcast said. It came on the 2,074th
day of the European war.
Covers All Europe
Though the surrender order was not confirmed immedi
ately, it presumably covered the almost . 1,000,000 German
troops still holding out in Norway, Czechoslovakia, Austria,
Yugoslavia, the French (coaHt and the channel islands.!
Only an hour earlier, the BBC in its Danish service broad
cast a report that the Norwegian garrison had capitulated.
Speedy confirmation of the surrender of the other German
forces was expected.
' The semi-official British Press association said the hour of
the V-E announcement was being arranged "at this moment"
in telephone conversations between London, Washington, and
Moscow. It was expected before dusk tonight.
V ' Carried On Itadlo
' Schwerin von Krosigk's announcement was carried over
the German station at Flensburg on the German-Danish
border. Though behind the allied lines, Flensburg was declared
an open city by the Germans
. nas not been occupied by allied
V "German men arid women
his dramatic announcement
forces nas today, at the order of Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz,
declared the unconditional surrender of all fighting German
troops.
"After a heroic fight of almost six years of incomparable
hardness, Germany has succumbed to the overwhelming power
of her enemies. To continue
less bloodshed and futile disintegration.
Forced To Act
"The government, which has feeling of responsibility for
the future of its nation, was
of all physical and material forces and to request of the enemy
cessation of hostilities."
A transcription of Schwerin von Krosigk's remarks was
I recorded by BBC and rushed to
nnhinet wnu in tuvaainn nniW
Once the joint Washington -
of V-E day has been released, Churchill will broadcast the
news from the cabinet room at 10 Downing street and after
wards may speak from the balcony of the ministry of health
building overlooking Whitehall.
In Allied Hands
The greater proportion of German forces already is in al
lied hands following piecemeal surrenders along the western
front. The German armies in northern Italy surrendered last
Wednesday, those in Denmark, Holland and northwest Ger
many on Saturday and those in western Austria Sunday.
Indicative of the announcements to come, radio Paris said
a truce had been arranged at La Rochelle, German-occupied
French port on the Bay of Biscay.
Prinevilfe
Bit Hasty in
V-E Hilarity
Prinevllle, May 7 This bustl
ing little city of Prlneville doesn't
believe in waiting for any official
announcement of V-E day in
Europe. As noon approached
most of the business houses, beer
parlors, the schools and other es
tabllshments had closed their
doors while employes gathered in
excited knots on downtown streets
and enthusiastically discussed the
report that "the war Is over In
Europe!"
It all got started when some
one blew the town's fire whistle
at 9 o'clock. Almost immediately
announcement was made that the
school children could go home,
and store after store closed their
doors.
It was indicated, too, that the
liquor store would follow suit and
remain closed for this premature
V-E celebration.
Peter N.Tugman
Hurt in Action
Eugene, Ore., May 7 IP Wil
liam Tugman, managing editor
of the Eugene Register-guard, to
day said he had been advised that
his son, Pvt. Peter N. Tugman,
had been wounded In action on
Okinawa.
The 21 year-old soldier suffered;
two broken legs and shrapnel In
both legs and arms. He was a,
first aid man with the 106th in-
fantry.
earlier this week and apparently
forces.
! Schwerin von KrORitrk-hemin
thfr-nih command of. armed
the war would only mean sense
compelled to act on the collapse
10 Downing street, where the
Primo Mlnluni. PhinvViill
London - Moscow announcement
War End Report
Germany's announcement that
its fighting forces had uncondi
tionally surrendered was met with
iittle or no excitement In Bend to-
daay, as residents Indicated that
their enthusiasm would not be un
bounded even though the allies
officially proclaim the European
conflict over.
Early radio reports that the
Germans had capitulated caused
several downtown business
houses to put out flags. When the
official allied pronouncement fail
ed to materialize, some of these
business folk remarked:
"Well, the Stars and Stripes
should be flying, anyhow!"
Unlike In the case of most note
worthy news developments. The
Bulletin office today was not
swamped with telephone calls
from persons seeking verification.
Japs Come Next
"I believe the people of Bend
will accept the defeat of Germany
as a matter of course, and will not
give vent to real outbursts of Joy
until the Japs have been licked,"
was the way Mayor A. T. Nleber
gall summed up the situation.
The chamber of commerce was
already on record as being op
posed to the cessation or usual
business when V-E day officially
occurs, and had adopted a resolu
Hon urging grateful persons to
attend church services and offer
their thanksgiving there wncn tne
Irelch falls.
7 T : TT : ... . '
Tuesday Designated as Victory
Day in Europe; Supreme Allied
Headquarters Remains Silent
News That Germany Has Unconditionally Quit
War Results in Imposition of Penalty on
A.P.; Truman Is Not Yet Ready to Speak
(By tlnltoil Prew) ; .,
The British ministry of information in London today an
nounced that tomorrow "will be treated as victory in Europe
day." t ,
Earlier the German radio at Flensburg had broadcast that
Admiral Karl Doenitz had surrendered all the remaining
forces in Europe.
After Edward Kennedy of the Associated Press had sent
a dispatch from Reims, France, saying that Germany had
surrendered unconditionally to the western allies and Russia,
allied supreme headquarters in Paris issued a statement
which did hot deny the AP story. The statement said :
"SHAEF authorizes correspondents at 4:45 p.m., Paris
time, (7:45 a.m. PWT) to
state that SHAEF hns madel
nowhere any official state
ment for publication un to that
hour concerning complete sdr
render of all German armed forc
es In Europe and no story to that
effect Is authorised."
Facilities Suspended
Supreme headquarters later an
nounced that filing facilities for
ine Associated Press had been
suspended in the European thea
ter of operations. AP headquar
ters In New York had no immedi
ate statement to make on either
the suspension or the Reims dis
patch. .Thqy ;saldi however, that
they sun were (receiving news
from London, but not from Paris
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The announcement by the Brit
ish ministry of Information -said
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broadcast at 6 a.m. (PWT) tomor
row and King George at noon
(PWT) tomorrow.
In Washington, President Tru
man Issued this statement:
.Statement Made
"I have agreed with the London
and Moscow governments that I
will make no announcement with
reference to the surrender of the
enemy forces in Europe or else
where until a simultaneous state
ment can be mude by the three
governments.
"Until then there Is nothing I
can or will say to you."
Jonathan Daniels, Truman's
press secretary, said - the White
house had no comment on the
British ministry of Information
statement.
CBS correspondent Edward
Murrow broadcast from London
that President Truman and Prime
Minister Churchill had been pre
pared to broadcast the official
news of the German surrender at
9 a.m. PWT today, but that they
were delayed because Premier
Stalin, who was to speak at the
same time, was not ready. Mur
row said the Truman-Churchill
statement has been postponed In
definitely pending word from Mos
cow that Premier Stalin Is ready
with his statement.
BKADKN IS NAMKI)
Washington, May 7 iti'iThe
senate today confirmed the nomi
nation of Sprullle Braden, of New
York, to be ambassador to Argen
tina. He formerly was ambas
sador to Cuba.
TRUMAN FAMILY MOVES
Washington, May 7 illi The
Harry S. Truman family of In
dependence, Mo., moved Into their
new home at 1000 Pennsylvania
avenue today,
(A S. Fliers Starved, Beaten
By Japs as Air Forts Strike
Calcutta, May 4 (Delayed) (tli iant at the Rangoon city Jail April
American airmen, liberated from 2(i, although they had virtually
the Jananese prison camp at Ran- no supplies. During the 50 mile
goon, revealed today how the Jap-!
anesc beat and starved U. S. filers,
especially B-29 crewmen, after the
bombing raids on Japan.
The airmen, from the first
group of Americans freed In Bur
ma, are recuperating In a hospital
here. More than 400 Americans,
most af them members of the air
force, and approximately 600
other Allied prisoners were liber-
ated at Rangoon.
Although most of them were
fairly healthy, despite their star-1
vation diet and beatings, it was i
reported that about 50 Americans,
too sick to walk, were left at Ran
goon. The prisoners were given their
liberty by the Japanese command-
Weather Forecast
Clear today, tonight snd Tuesday,
except for coastal fog; vvnrnwr
today east portion. ,'
NO. 130
Dies in Action
TSgt. Emmett C. DeLaney, 22,
son of Mr. and Mrs. C. D. De
Laney, Bend, and formerly an
employe of The Shevlin-Hlxon
Company, who was killed In ac
tion In Germany.
Soviets Submit
Atrocity Report
Moscow, May 7 nil .The Rus
sian state atrocity commission
charged In an official report to
day that more than 4,000,000 allied
nationals were murdered by the
nazis In the notorious Oswleclm
prison camp In Polish Silesia.
The report, covering the find
ings of an exhaustive lnvestiga-
Ion by the commission, asserted
that the Oswleclm camp was di
rected nersonally by Gestapo
Chief Helnrlch Himmler and de
scribed it as nazidom's largest
'murder plant."
Charges Made
Photographs published In the
off Iclnil communist party organ
Pravds today showed heaps or
mutilated bodies found in Oswle
clm, where the nazis were said
to have "processed" roughly
l.OOO-.OOO victims annually since
19.)!).
The commission also charged
that Himmler selected Germany's
leading biologists, biochemists
and physicists to conduct "scien
tific experiments" on the live
bodies of Iswlecim prisoners.
march to the 14lh army lines near
Pegu, the prisoners went two days
without food or water. The van
guard reached the Allied forces
last Wednesday.
Lt. Billy T. Davis. Los Angeles,
one of the Americans recoup
erating here, said the American
airmen were put In a "special
, treatment group" on charges of'
indiscriminate bombing of women
and children.
The men were llnea up ana tne
guards beat them with "clubs
made like pick handles," Davis
said. The Americans were treat
ed worse than the other Allied
prisoners, he added, and the beat
ings were more severe when the
Japanese were drunk.
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