shelter, connec ted by deep un erground passages with others beneath various government buildings throughout the city. The defenders of that underground fortress fought bitterly and it took Soviet flame throwers to burn out yard by y rd the last underground stronghold of the lazis, where Hitler may have perished, screaain& ae the Russians turned the flame thrower his ••1• ':;:l Rere 1a aom th1Dg wh1oh may explain why ao man;y Naz1a are anxioua to be oaptured by the erioana or Br1t1ab rather than by the Ruaa1ana. The Britiah, Amer1oana and !'renoh are talking about v, ins war or1Jll1nal.• by Jllixed tri bunala. The Ruaaiana retuae to have uy'thing to do W1 th any auoh idea. When they oatoh a aan, ~ prea\11111 _ . ,h.,. try th•, 'though nobody ha• •••r been preaen't at IIU O a Vial. J.dc! W ar orim1nala. The or w e g iana are los1n o no tim T o e. be people or Oslo tomorrow wtll see the beginnin g or t h e tri 1 of t h eir aroh traitor, Quisling .. aJor V1dku;(ibii.U• wlli:,1e bme hon bemooe a e,-ae~ <f,g,p t.r:aitGl:'-9' The word from Oslo~ 1a that the ~ trial 1'11,1 be abort, •A tMn t. no doubt abau t the verdiot. ~ 1 1 1 & . a l l m o e e ~ ~ & a ~ N l l l l l d e d - him will a1-, be on \rial. -""'Jihre• ~ • ~ n a1aa1ng, the polioe minister, the m1n1ater at ■o-oalled juatioe, an the police ohiet, all or t h em Nazla. The, are supposed to haYe ,o--6-f' ~ , barricaded themee ea in a oaatle~•• ar"-bold1ng ou~. Probably they 'wt.11 not be taken alive. The _..,,13 ~orwegian government will return to Oalo by tcaorrow or Saturday. One or the men we most want w get 18 Himmler, the ■obool teaoher who beoaae master wrturer ot Germany, head or the Gestapo. Next to llitler, he 1a first o n the list ot the people to be dealt with. A. rumor trom Austria hu him hiding in a mountain reso t to wbioh he tlew early on Tuesday. Be 18 on the run, fleeing trom place to plaoe. One story reports him as having • dd r orl i l • ga h re round h m bunoh o of an 1gbt ,A tbouaand toot mountain. ------- LQ:l: A story no ome - to i ht which reveals 0 C 08 1 zi Mars l Von R nd stedt•s bi offensive i n t e rd nnes ast D ce ber c me to bin far more serious fo , than it • Te origina l plan, e no hear, as to combine the o nter attack with an invasion f Ireland nd a ass pri on break by German prisoners of r in the British Isles . The operations int e British Isles ere to a sort of suioi e aff ir, to divert the attention and trength of the llied High Command hile Von Rundstedt's reserves broke through in Belgiu and Luxembourg. n airborne division was to land in both northern Ireland and Eire. SimultaneAusly, prisoners of war in England and Scotland were to create a divereio b breaking out nd si ing whatever arms and transport y coul nen to raise havoc all over the co ntr1 side. PLOT 2 ----- ..... ....... T e ot di ove d y th een or oft o is int li ence off1·cer, bo · h meric n . Captain F · n Brandstett r, of Yor Cit, and Captain Jo eph L Hoelzl, of Loui ille, Kentuc y. The dat t for th priso bre k was hrist eve, later c nged to December Sixteenth, to coincide ith Von Rundstedt' at ttack in the Ardannes. Berli alre d ad assured the prisoners th t th:is counter-off naive ould in the war. The break out as to tart in the pr son at Devizes, a hundred miles est of London. The prisoners there intended to seize the arsenal, establish roadblocks, • cut communications, and grab supplies and motor transport at a couple of nearby i■ hospitals. Then they ~roposed to aai stage blitz attack and surprise t e ritish on three air fields. Not fa~ away as t e Brit ' h tleventh raored n1·v1· · d. · 10n, a 1vis• 00 it t, · 0 and herma t n _ a. . b t an they conf'dentl . ex ected to b att eking London in four hour. The first l ne seized b the prisone s Plo. to r t 1 t t th 8 er W1 th 1n lllgeno r rport. C pt n Bra d . t t r lzl l bo on 1 ao in ouriou bio11. T n war pr1 ne • 14 80 tro be o p t e 1z , and or tor hou e reooDD 1a ano \our ot tbe oo n ei e. Th tb n re~ ed ot t eir ow ooord to p iaon. Thi look ap1o1ou • eo h two op d Gradu lly ey 1 arn d ails. Captain Hoelzl a14 i t • • ao t n aatio tba i rioan ot to ra thought et firal they were loaing their mine! • e plan oall tor tl.y 1118 aolumna trom d vize• to • 1Tee all Germ na in pr1aon oampe w1 th1n a rad1ua ot aix'Y mile • In addition to an a aauli on London they planned w, a ttaok a port near y, and th t they hop ct o hold Jong enough 1br tbl Bazia in Hollan tt, a4 e born reintoroe• nta. Arter wba t they learned trcm thoae prlzonere • the otr1 ere wer a le to follow eTery mov ot the l.ottera. Tb ne d almost on ae tbe pr1 nera d1c! ot the plan to o nge the date o th u ria ng trom obria1maa eve to deoe oer 1xteen~. )ht I P lot. - The r1ngleadera rifles and small arms which ••=-••They expected 1l> seize the guard■ t ey had hidden. at the camp and go on tmm tber:, aooumulat ing more arms and uppl1ee aa tbff( went. Aot ally, 1ntantry end artillery waa standing by neu Helgol nd with aa■ l!l.llt oratt and •~bmarines '° take advantage of the prison break. The Germana planned to do all this w1 th a minimum or blood■be4 and diaturbanoe. They bad eve arranged tor hosp1 tal perr nnel to atand by and take oare ot tbe German oaaualtiea. The oo nap1ra•ora had aoquired c.caplete 1ntormat1un about the strength ot every position they expected to take, 1nolud1ng the ex ct number or tanks and planes. Being on Tbe alert, the Br1t1ah and American oftioera were able easily to oruah the plot by putting al the ringleader■ and H oelzl t he oney P laza H otel at 1am.1 Beach and the t Moritz in New ork, - --------- - · ------ • ar, BPep d"'Ol"D08B • t ~ and •nh■t 1tu*• iae follow tug:• Odd 88 1 may aeem, there 1s war news r:ro Europe; all or it tram the Russian tront. T hree German arD11 grou~s 1n OzeohoeloTakia are t1~h t1ng 1 t out t.o the e Dd. Moeoow tod~ reported that the tirat army or the Ukreine had o tured several 110re tor.na in ~zeoboaloTakia, The Ruseiana alao took aixt7-e1gb't thouaand Germane in LatTia at two t town ■, and thirty thouaaDll, ftwr -•=- 110re north of Dan g. They oaptured another went, -It .houaaDrl along the A•tuarr of t e Viatula.'.Ai"""'- One group ot German ba ttaliona 1• ati 11 while another 1 ■ running away west toward the A.mer , try 1ng to eeoape the Russian•• T h e G e rman fleet began air rendering tod_,. U-boa ta 7 steamed 1n · to dr 1 tiah harbors under the flags or oapSSUlat1on and two ot the remaining oruisera ot Hitler's onoe threatening eet. Crown Prince Umberto of Ita1y as been warned tnat if h dares 10 to Milan, he ill suffer the same fate as Benito Mussolini. Th is from a north Italian spo:bsaan, at a socialist ■ eeting in Ro ■ e. A few moments later, another speaker, 1 t the same meeting, m de an attack on the Royal Faaily, accused the House of Savoy of being pro-Fa cist and therefore responsible for all Fascist crimes. Umberto officially is still an It lian Lieutenant General. Hardly a week ago, in Italy, I was talking to General Mark Clar~ and other Allied military leadera about Crown Princ e Umberto. lot wanting to express reluctant themselves on political matters, they were •••i ~ to say hat they thought about him. But General Clark di tell me that the tall Crow n Prince ha been going nto cities and tons in It y, an ingling with the people, as soon after the cities were captured as possible. His obvious purpose was tom ~ea good impression and try to~. convince the people that he not only had been playing a part in their liberation, but that he was an.ious to look after their wellfare. lie had been going ahout without a gu ~ rd, and that alway• makes a good impression. I ca e away from Italy feeling that the fate of the House of Savoy hangs in the balance, and by a slender threa4. p 1 tic. Tb Prime ot Japan toda oalled an mergeno y oont noe or the Llder statesman of the 1 ka do. The d1souaa1on was abo t the European situatio n and a tr1 oter measures to lll0b111ze civilian t h e F • ~ subjeots or the Mikado ror total war. Uter all we have heard about regimentation in Ja pan, 1t 1a Mttioult to 1ma g 1ne what further ate p e th9,1 oan '8lce. This oonterenoe wae a reaction to the la tee t raid or our aupertorta. the greatest 1n tbe whole Paoitio war. P'our hundred or th.em tlew through ma~ tlak over tbe Inland Sea. It was a atrategio bombing raid, Wh1oh destro1ed 011 111d gaaol ne taotor1e• on three Ja p anese Islands in the Intl.and Sea. The ~- 2.ct~ • ~ G ~ lett a mass or tlamea where Jap tuel storage plants r, and synthetip oil tao tories had bee n . In s _ 1te o'f the heavy flak, all tour hundred B-2ga returned to base. 0 In the Ph 1lli p l 1nes, a tew units or the twe n t y -fourth Intan t."Y division landed on the I and of Samol 1n the Oult ot ~ Davo today, in an •phibioua operation} ~ took tb~ 1ala nd • . Mal ly aD-4 eBa~lse4 ~Be ¥enltB '8 :pl:aae Bedt7 utiller,o e.im:ad dt11e1tlo' &Q 'he .Tapaa e t ♦ o1:2 the Ia)BtP5 or M2a4an ■ ro , .,,,,,. 2. la. · oitia .. In no , rtb east B o;rneo, Australians : cleared the N 1 pp on e ae out ot an area . or Bix s quare llilee around 'l!a.r akan, They were b elpe d b y Du tob forQee o r '1le . etherlanda 1 na1e , • On Okinawa, the . engt.ne . er-s ot the Sixth Marine !l'he J"apa l«unobed ll)ltte · Of their au1 . o1d• · ~ l;Y era try1~ to blow up the bridge wUb bwaan boinba. iiJt \11,r ~ .._ t6l: 11 . lasa. Th~ battle Qn Okinawa oont1nue1 to be a 4 . eaperate A Bever1'heles s. Lieutenant Ge tel Buokne r , 0~114!,r t the ' !!en th AmJT, N p o ~ u that our~fi::-v e kllled or .,,mded one - ~ . hal.t ot the . 85,000 Japaneae;('ish'•,._ on the 1slan4. VETER lllS __ ..,._ _____ _ The War Department has worked out a•• system for d"scharging veterans of all battle fionts. It will demo ilize some one million three hundred thou and men during the next twelve months, and aore later on. The officers have worked out a system of credit points. A man i n the armed {orces to get one point for each month of service since Decem•er Sixteenth, Nin e teen Forty. A~ additional point for each month of overseas service. Five points for each star indicating his having taken part in a battle; five points for each wound; five points f•• for each decoration; twelve points for each child under eighteen; but n more than three children. A man with a total of e i ghty-:tiv credit points will be entitled to discharge. The same applies to officers, but •ith not VET !!, R S - 2 --------- so good a chance of getting discharge. It having t ken longer to train them, and t ey have special skil s. So heir chances for demobilization will depend upon ho badly they are needed in the •z war ag inst Jap n. The War Deparment announces that IACS w1 l need only fort four points for demobilization. • The joint oo it ea ot OU8 nd h Senate on poa't- w t xe baa reoomm n4 d m relief ~ t e tax r n. e the form ot oonoea 10 to help business d industry 1n getting bao a eaoe t ..>ea 1a. But \here will be no obange at pre ent 1 inoome tax at I tor eith r oorporat1ons or 1ndiv14ue.le. The pr poaala of Senator George of Georgia, tor a bat oppoee4 Morgentbau. r 4uot1on a will e •1••••·11111■1 treasury aeoretary The ou e to ds, pa 86'd a bill tn g1 e oongrea•en 11D f1 ve hu'Dd red a year eaob • allowanoe t tax exempt. LTP.429.300.040.pdf LTP.1945.05.10.pdf