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GERMANY SURRENDERSFIRE„ ™ signing. ALLIED leadersAT EISENHOWER’S HQ.ANNOUNCEMENT DELAY.The War In Europe Finishes On “G*' Surren*r MuddlJL LONDON. May S.—The docuThe Battlefielde.Ch'irchill And Truman Announce SurrenderMaj 8—The document of unconditional surrender by Oer-manj to the Western Allies and Russia was signed at 3-M am Yesterday in a achoolhouse In Rheinu iFrance*, which Is General Eisenhower's head-FINAL ACT IN BERLINUTTER NAZI RUINUnconditional Capitulation To Britain, U.S.A. And RussiaIAIN DON, May -The document declaring the unconditional surrender of GermanyFor the Germans Col-Oeneral Ouatar Jodi, the new German Chief of Btaff. signed: for the Western Allies, General Eisenhower's Chief rf Staff. Lt-General Walter Bedell Smith: for Ruaala. Major-General I A. Suslapatov lt;who Is m charge of Red Army repatriation I. For Franc*1. General Ftanrois Sever signedGeneral Eisenhower did not attend i the signing but Immediately after-j •Yards received General Jodi and i General-Admiral Hans ton Friede-; berg. He obtained from them a state- i i ment that they fully understood the j surrender terms, and an assurance | that they would be carried out. I General Elsenhower preserved a stem manner throughout the interview.After signing. General Jodi aake.!. and received, permission to speak. With this signature - he said, “th* German nmnle and umM fnrr*« arePresident’s Grim Warning To JapanLONDON, May 8.—Announcing that hostilities in Europe would cease officially one minute after midnight tonight and that in order to save lives the cease fire had already been sounded, the Prime Minister this afternoon said that early yesterday morning the representatives of the German High Command and Grand Admiral Doenitz had signed an Act of Unconditional Surrender to the Allied Expeditionary Force and the Soviet High Command.
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Perth West Australian
Perth, Western Australia, AU
Wed, May 09, 1945
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