German Atrocities Continue In Wartime Reporting
London dispatch states Prague radio reports German aircraft bomb a concentration camp at Regesin where Jews, many aged, remain inside. A later Seventh Army note recounts a liberated British prisoner and Bavarian locals detailing SS troops using starving Jews as pack mules, executing at least 125 victims near Kraiburg with bayonets and gunfire as they fled Allied advances.
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Several More Areas May Annexed
City officials discuss annexing additional suburbs after a council session. Commissioner P J Anderson defends previous annexations and forecasts more territory joining the city as ordinances are prepared. He cites bringing Alamo Heights residents in and notes critics misread voter sentiment while quoting a poem about the election.
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Jap Violated Girls Freed On Tarakan
Tarakan, Netherlands East Indies May 7. Dutch authorities report several hundred girls aged nine to 12 captured by Japanese forces in occupied Java were brought to Tarakan. Many of the girls found after the Allied landing are pregnant.
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War criminals Goering and others move toward punishment
Circles near the war crimes commission say Goering will be tried by an international tribunal to be established in Europe. Reports place Henlein Frank Weygand Boretra arrested or held, with others detained by American forces. Mussolini widow and children held near Florence. Himmler denial of arrival in Sweden. repatriation of 30,000+ Allied nationals reported on V-E day.
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Hitler’s Body May Belong to One of Four Found
Report from Shalin, May 10, states at least four bodies found in Berlin rubble may include Hitler. Russians say none definitively identified as Hitler, though Goebbels, Bormann and others are named among the deceased. Descriptions detail the underground fortress network and burning ruins closing in on the chancellery.
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Saipan Atrocities Described By Veteran Yank
A World War II veteran from New York recounts alleged Japanese cruelties on Saipan, claiming soldiers were killed in brutal ways and bodies desecrated. He compares these acts to German atrocities, noting a lieutenant was found with a cross-shaped wound and other Marines described grisly injuries.
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Russian casualties in Berlin siege reported near 15 million dead
A dated source claims Soviet losses in the Berlin campaign ranged from 15 to 42 million dead, half soldiers and half civilians, with figures noted by a Russian general as hugely higher than prior estimates. The piece cites June 1944 tallies and a 20 million casualty figure from DNB as context.
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Allies Set Doenitz Ouster
May 10. German remnants surrender as Doenitz likely to be ousted soon. British task force occupies Channel Islands. U boats and warships surrender at Weymouth Bay and Copenhagen harbor. Doenitz and von Kronig may be redirected from power as German government dissolves. London sources say Doenitz could be treated as a war criminal.
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Pickpocket Robs Sleeping Driver on Route Truck
A driver woke to find a thief had lifted $127 from his billfold while he slept in the cab early Thursday. The awakened man, Rodríguez, had his truck loaded and ready for an early start. The missing money and the billfold were recovered a few feet from the scene.
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Draft to Stay Says Churchill in Commons
Churchill told the Commons conscription would likely stay in effect for some years. He noted the need to relieve fathers and brothers by keeping young men in garrison duty in Germany and in the war in Japan.
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France Ready to Furnish Forces for Japan War Effort
Paris May 10 Rene Pleven French minister of finance told reporters at the White House that France is prepared to furnish forces, with more to follow, to aid in the war against Japan. He said he gave this assurance during a conference with the President.
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Crete Milos Nazis surrender on islands in Mediteranean
British officials announced that German troops on Crete and Milos have surrendered. The Crete garrison was estimated at 10,000 Germans and around 4,000 Italians, signaling a significant Axis capitulation in the Aegean region.
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Nazis Flee Prague toward American lines across Czech territory
Nazi troops retreated westward from Prague toward American lines as Russian forces paraded in Prague. Czech accounts claim thousands of casualties in the three day battle, while German columns moved toward Pilsen and then to American outposts five miles from town. German soldiers discarded equipment along the roadside during the retreat. May 10 dispatch from London reports Churchill postponing a broadcast.
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Forecast for San Antonio and vicinity
Mostly cloudy with occasional showers and thunderstorms late Thursday afternoon. Partly cloudy Thursday night and Friday. Thursday high around 86 degrees. Friday morning low near 40 degrees. Cloudy Thursday with scattered showers and thunderstorms. Not as warm in the north portion with little change in temperature. More weather on Page 2-A.
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Army sets 85 point discharge system for personnel
The army announced a new point system for discharging enlisted personnel in Europe, fixing a minimum of 85 points from service credit combat awards and parenthood, with 84 points for ground, air, and service forces. About 4.3 million affected, 1.3 million to be released in next 12 months. Separate criteria for each service to be set within six weeks.
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U S Losses in Europe May Hit 600000 War Report
Washington May 10 The War Department chief reported April fighting in Germany cost American ground forces 44 534 tasumbées with 324 kiled 25 407 wounded and 3867 missing. West European front total losses through April end stood at 612 113 with 88 225 killed 265 320 wounded and 51 568 missing and prisoners.
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Yanks Picked for Pacific and Europe War Classifications
The War Department announced today a new universal classification system for American troops in Europe and the Pacific. About 4 million soldiers will be sorted into categories for redeployment, with units remaining in Europe, moving to active theaters, or returning to the United States for reactivation. Point scores based on service, overseas time, and decorations guide early assignments. In later adjustments tropical cases may transfer personnel to other detachments. In Vatican City, Yugoslav partisans have seized the episcopal palace at Gorlalsland and placed bishops under house arrest with heavy guards.
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ER 28s Blast Jap Oil Supplies
Guam reports say a record fleet of over 400 B 29 bombers attacked Honshu and Kyushu oil storage and fuel plants, causing large smoke plumes and claiming excellent results. The mission focused on weakening Japan's homeland air supplies as Admiral Nimitz vowed stronger air attacks.
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