Sherbrooke daily record, 14 avril 1945, samedi 14 avril 1945

[" THE PAPER OF THE EASTERN WEATHER Cloudy and Coolcf Established 1897.SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1945.Forty-Ninth Year ALLIED FORCES ENTER NAZ * I Western Mies And FEDERAL ELECTIOn Russians Near Meet In Three Sections REDOUBT AREAjter SAILED FOR JUNE 11 \" United States Forces Enter Bayreuth, Deep Inside Great National Redoubt Planned on as German Last Ditch Defence\u2014Nearest 9th Army Forces Last Reported Forty-five Miles From German Capital, Paris, April 14.\u2014t/P)\u2014Tlie U.S, 9th Army fought slowly forward on the outer defences of Berlin today and other Americans to the south besieged Leipzig, neared the Russian lines and plunged deep into the German national redoubt by entering Bayreuth.Gen.Bradley\u2019s armies by-passed Leipzig and tightened the siege arc around the great Saxony city where 1,000.000 German civilians have been reported awaiting the Americans.The closest troops last were reported four miles away.The 3rd Army plunged into Bayreuth and onto the approaches of Dresden and neared the great traffic centre of Chemnitz.The 1st and 9th Armies virtually eliminated the Ruhr pocket, taking 114.000 prisoners from the 150.000 originally estimated as trapped.The nearest 9th Army troops last were reported forty-five miles from Berlin.Those east of the Elbe were encountering profuse fire from flak batteries guarding the capital and making slow progress on the flat Brandenburg plain.Three of Bradley\u2019s armies were less than 100 miles from the Russian lines.The U.S.3rd Army was within eighty-eight miles of the Soviets, the 9th was ninety miles and the 1st\u2014fighting for Leipzig jdn beyond\u2014was reported ninety-five miles from the Red armies ; flushed with the conquest of Vienna, a victory which also breached : the German national redoubt, at its East end, *\ti In Holland, Polish troops under 1st Hagen (151,000), Salingen (130,000), Canadian Army command had cut Oberhausen (191,000), Mulheim their way to within seven miles of, (136,000) and Dortmund.Some may the North Sea, while British troops have fallen already, of Gen.Crerar\u2019s army were fighting Americans were on the Elbe for through embattled Arnhem, house almost l00 miles in a great arc by house.\tthreatening Berlin, advanced against f ¦ ¦ \u2022 A*' ' Drew Planning To Advance Ontario General Election Toronto Circles Convinced That Ontario Premier Will Seek to Avoid Conflict With Federal Vote, Called for; Same Day as Legislative Elections.Toronto, April 14.\u2014tP\u2014Progressive Conservative circles suggested early this morning the possibility of Premier George Drew of Ontario advancing the date of the Ontario general election from June 11 to June 4 on the grounds that a simultaneous Dominion-Provincial election June 11 would be \u201cconfusing.\u201d These circles, who said they were speaking unofficially, said they understood the writs for the Ontario election had not yet been issued and there would be no legal reason for Mr.Drew not to adopt this procedure.Some Progressive Conservative circles said that by advancing the date for the Ontario election, Mr.Drew would \u201coutwit\u201d Prime Minister! Mackenzie King, who they said, had deliberately picked June 11.\u201cCURB SERVICE\u201d ON THE to meet the Red Army, a field and coffee along the roadside.HIGHROAD TO VICTORY .Pausing briefly in their be&ïkmg dash artillery unit of the Third Army\u2019s 9th Armored-Division downs C-ra-ti-ons Such quick smacks are typical of spearhead units, By FRANK FE.-YIpJKTY Canadian Pro- .Staff Writer Ottawa, April I t.-\t{(f) \u2014Prime Minister .Mackenzie King announced FINAL MAY MEET WITH NEW PRESIDENT BUTE PAID ROOSEVELT Simple Ceremonies TRUMAN UNABLE Canadian units relatively light resistance at most points along their 230-mile front in The Netherlands.The Germans fought without a cohesive front and without a cohesive command.The rear of the mass of their armies along the Oder was being penetrated by the swift advances of American armies which gained thirty or more miles in a day.Brunswick (population 201,306), Jena (60,90) and the Dutch bastion of Assen (20,000) fell.With the loss of the aircraft centre of Brunswick,.Germany had lost half her fifty-eight cities of more than 10-0,-000 population.Magdeburg (3-34,358) was ringed by 9th Army armor and falling.So was Arnhem (SO,000), a gateway to the Dutch fortress where up to 200,000 Germans are trapped.The last Germans were being driven from Dortmund ('5-37,000) in the Ruhr.The 3rd Armored Division of the L ,S.1st Army reached the Saale River twenty miles north of Halle (220,362) and by German account was fighting in that city.The German pocket in the Ruhr, Truman May Seek to Establish as Soon as Fossiblej Same Type of Contact' With Churchill and Stalin as Roosevelt Possessed.By JAMES F.London, April 14.- KIXG _ (jp) \u2014The The U.S, 3rd Army was racing : across Eastern Germany virtually unonposed \u2014 driving down clear ; roads as fast as the greatest aerial ! supply effort of the war could keep .the attacking columns equipped and , \u2018 fed.The British 2nd Army cut loose! in the north in an advance to Uel-1 ! sen, 49 miles southeast of Ham- j burg, outflanking that greatest Ger-! man port just as the 9th Army out-Thorny problems of liberated Eur-flanked it yesterday with its race to ; ope and the possibility of Russia\u2019s the lower Elbe, which by-passed the ; entry-into the Pacific war may force Denmark Peninsula and the port of a new meeting within a few months Luebeck.British troops besieged ; of top Russian, British and Ameri-' Bremen for four miles today.\tlean leaders to acquaint President Hundreds of miles behind the Truman with the Big Three\u2019s plans i clamation main front, 1,150 American heavy \u2014some of them secret, bombers attacked the 21,000 Ger- Some quarters believed President mans holding out at the mouth of Truman might accompany Edward j ;rhe Gironde estuary eadmg to thejstettinim.United Stales Secretary ! ! At .an tic port Oj Bordeaux, perhaps 10£ state, here for the conference of j heralding\u2019 an assault by land forces.-Yng-lo - American - Sovief Foreign j i f1® ^nd Armored Division of the \u2022 Ministers scheduled to follow- the \u2022Mi Army had established a firm;gan Pi-ancisco meeting.On.one of the toughest diplomatic J in history, President Truman! mdes from the capital and|facej problem of representing! was progressing slowly on the flat The United States in dealing with Brandenburg plain.\ttwo of the world\u2019s shrewdest states- rhe 5th Division north of Ma Mark Services In National Capital >i'.-ii i iiay in tin- House of t'onimons' that the Dominion general elections! will be held on Monday, June 1.1, thid same day as the Ontario general election.\t| In a lively but good-humored ex-! change with Gordon Gray don, Pro-! gressive Conservative House leader,) Mr.King twitted the opposition I with I'eceivjng ;he announcement! with, gloomy faces while Mr.G ray-1 don declared they received with dc-1 light.It will be Canada\u2019s first general; (lection in five year- and will be, the\\ first time that Mr.King in IK years| of offici ha allowt-d a Parliament, to run its full constitutional five-! year term.The life of Pailiament expires April 1Ï.The la-i.time this happened wa.the term of the Conservatives un-1 dcr Rt.Hon.R.li.Bennett whichi ended with the general election ofl 1935.r.u\tn i ¦ h o .\tprospects are for the elec j Change or Break in U.S,|i.i ihc contest after to years of Arrival of the funeral train signalled the start of a month's Mr.Truman dor not expect to at memorial in the armed services, But War Production Chairman J.A Krug- asked no interruption in war industry.j tend.This decision was attributed i the tremendous new duties so s | Continued on page 2, col.4.By J.M.ROBERTS, JR.(Substituting for DeWitt Mackenzie) President Truman and Stale Secretary Stettiniua have proclaimed \u201cno chanRe\u201d in United States foreiRn policy.There is ore place where they may have « hard time making the proclamation stick.Of all h is personal diplomacy, President Roosevelt\u2019s policy re-fïardinç Russia probably de pended more directly on him than any other.Isabels are likely to prove inaccurate.h may not be strictly correct to term the Roosevelt Russian policy as \u201cco-operation at any cost,\" bvit it sometimes appeared close to that and also was probably the foreign policy which drew more domestic criticism than any other.Entirely aside from those who always want to \u201cget tough\" when anyone fails to abide strictly by what Americans consider their country\u2019s ideals there has been a more temperate expression of fear that by yielding to Russia on certain points affecting small nations, the United States has been storing up a whirlwind.1 his \u201cno compromise on virtue\u201d attitude probably has been held in check, to a great extent, by widespread knowledge that Mr, Roosevelt was far better informed on the subject than anyone else, that hit motives were unquestionable, and that there was no course except to trust him.Mi, Roonevelt obviously thought that the maintenance of machinery for co-operation* among the Big Three was more important than anything else.He seemed to feel that in yielding now he could hope for enlightened change!; Inter.Whether Mr, Roosevelt wan right remains to be seen.He was conducting a campaign something similar to the one against isolationism in the United States, Russia\u2019s policy, at host, iii self su f fi dette y again if any enemy.Mr.Roosevelt could hope that once she felt herself out of danger she would co-operate in eliminating danger for all, and after that \u2022he might relinquish some of the hegemony over her neighbors that she now feels necessary.Those who disagree fear any compromise on principle, lest Russia, learning what she can do by flexing her muscle», become insatiable.Messrs.Truman and Stettin-iub cannot expect, for a time at 'east, to enjoy the same public confidence regarding Foreign Affa irs as did the Roosevelt-Hrlf team.Those who disagreed with Mi Roosevelt, but felt incompetent to go to the mat with him and his unique store of information, may now be expected to become more in-i s ten t.\u2018 No change\u201d may be diligently-guarded watchword, Whether t ran be accomplished is an-o the» matter.to ! bridgehead over the Elbe-before Berlin\u2014in the area 57 \u2014last river Magdeburg ; gpopt-g anJ the many's war material as late as 1942.was wiped out as a military problem with less than a fourth of the original area to be mopped up.Of the captives, 74,000 were taken by the 1st Army.Hundreds more dirty and discouraged Germans were streaming out.Great cities in the Ruhr were near canture.These included Dusseldorf (5-39,000), Wuppertal (383,300), President Truman\u2014thrust with bewildering suddenness from relative obscurity into a position of world eminence \u2014 headed the official delegation meeting- the Roosevelt train at 10 a.m., E.D.T.He will accompany the body of his predecessor to Hyde Park, N.Y., for burial tomorrow.\t__j,,,\u201e 1\tn* rw- .r.\t\u2014.\u2014pjimen, Prime Minister Churchill and which produced three-touiths oi (jeu ,deburg was closer to Berlin \u2014 \"U-11 Premier S