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THOSE CAREFREE ,IAFSJo.pave ■ r whose hn??rr-$ a rede s f rovrd fry Super for 1 r r s lt;? r ,lt;? lt;?re relimed of worry about what will happen to their property says Radio Tokyo„NICE-MARSEILLE EDITIONDaily Newspaper of U.S. Arm*d Forces £Vol. 1—No, 50Vin $h*European Tb^at^r of Of^rsticmtPYtF LIBRARY PLANHE®TJovs Chth of Dana, f^-dL7nherc Ernie Pule was horn in*1900, is *v an soring construction* *of a library named for the soldier's chronicler.Wednesday, May 2, 1945ONE FRANC* .. ' _-*VT7 -■iiiLLj JiputiwBijw^WtiiPWiiwwgpwBigwwHiey^.^fnt ue;*{■ 'viK-j 8 * #*• * *. ** ** iSEVENTH ARMY TAKES MUNICHFall of Munich to the Seventh U. S Army was announced yesterday by Gen. Eisenhower as Allied troops slashed at fringes of the several pockets in which pieces of the battered Wehrmacht have been surrounded.•3In an order of the day Eisenhowercongratulated the troops—of theThird, 42nd and 45th Divs.—which took Munich, where some snipers still are to be cleared.Third and Seventh Army units hacked at the borders of the south Germany redoubt The 11th Armd. Div. of the Third Army crossed the Austrian frontier near Oberkappel(Continued on Page 8)2,628,529 SEIZED IN TEN MONTHSWASHINGTON, May 1 (ANS)— The Allied bag of prisoners fromD-Day in Normandy through last Wednesday totalled 2,628,529, the War Department announced yesterday.♦More than 317,000 were taken in the Ruhr pocket alone. In the last seven weeks more than 1,500.000were captured.Afew Matos, RefrigeratorsPrizes tor Bond ContestStart of a contest, in which 10 new automobiles and 10 new electric refrigerators will be awarded members of the U. S. Army stationed in the ETO who write the best short letters on My Savings and Post-War Plans, was announced yesterday.The contest is open today, and will continue through July 7, in conjunction with the Seventh War Loan Drive in the U. S. In addition to supporting the bond campaign, the contest will also act as a noilCHURCHILL COY OH Y-E CUESSon how the average soldier regards savings, and to stimulate thinking about post-war plans.Agencies sponsoring the contest include The Stars and Stripes, American Forces Network, Theater War Bond and Insurance Officeand Army Talks. Cooperating units are the Army’s Information and Education Dlv., post office, war bond officers, public relations officers, officers of various commands and American Red Cross.FIFTH, FREHCH LINK IH ITALYFulton Hoattg CommitteeCol. Jefferson H. Fulton, theater war bond saving officer, is contest committee chairman. He emphasized that rules makes it possible for any member of the Army in the ETO, who meets contest requirements, can win, even though he or she may never have attendedschool.Officers, EM, Welcs, and nurses (Continued on Pae 8)The Fifth Army was reported last night to have linked up with Gen. Eisenhower’s French Forces somewhere in the Piedmont province while on the northeast Italian front the Eighth Army Joined forces with the Jugoslav Patriot Army near Trieste.To add to the Nazi’s plight, the Italian Fascist army, commanded by Marshal Graziani, surrendered to the Allies. Eighth Army units took more than 10,000 prisoners.Aided by naval units offshore, ■Jugoslavs were engaged in their second day of street fighting inside Trieste, across the gulf from Venice. Other Jugoslav units; MarshalTito announced, liberated the territory of Istria following new landings south of Flume.A hint—but not a predictionthat he thinks the war hi Europe• —may end this week was given the House of Commons yesterday by British Prime Minister Churchill.The Prime Minister declined togive any details about reported negotiations for Germany's surrender.Count Folke Bernadotte returned to Sweden from his latest meeting with Heinrich Himmler yesterday with what some observers said maybe a German-Swedlsh agreementfor surrender of German troops in Denmark and Norway.The Swedish Foreign Office de nied a report broadcast in Sweden that Bernadotte had brought back a new general capitulation offer.POTTER’S FIELD GETS IL DUCEBenito Mussolini was buried yesterday in a potter’s field grave at Milan, where almost a quarter of century ago he began his rise to the Italian dictatorship.Tiie exact location of Mussolini’s grave was kept secret.BULLETIN‘.• Adolf Hitler is dead, German radio reported last night.Cause of the German dictator’s death was not disclosed, but reports had been current for several days that he was critically ill from acerebral hemorrhage. ;There was no other confirmation of the Fuehrer's death beyond the first hare announcement from the Nazi radio.Doenitz Succeeds.The German radio announced that Adm. Doenitz, former commander-in-chief of the German Navy, had succeeded him as ruler of the Reich.Doenitz, speaking later, over the German radio, Reuter said, declared thatHitler has fallen at his command post.My first task, Doenitz said, is tp save the Germanpeople from destruction by. • « » I(Continued on Page 8)
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