25,000 SURRENDER

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 110, 11 May 1943, Page 3

25,000 SURRENDER

German General Waves The t White Flag N.Z. Press Association —Copyright Rec. 1.30 p.m. LONDON, May 10. Describing the surrender of 25,000 Axis troops to the United States Second Army Corps, when organised fighting ceased on that front at 11 a.m. on Sunday, the British United Press correspondent says: German officers of the- staff of General Borowietz, commanding the 15th Panzer Division, approached the American lines with a white flag. The Germans wanted to make terms, but the American commander, Major-General Bradley, insisted upon unconditional surrender. According to a statement obtained from Allied Headquarters, the German, General ICrause, made the request for an armistice for the purpose of negotiating surrender. The Second United States Corps offered him three terms for surrender —first, it must be unconditional; second, the terms must be accepted promptly; third, destruction of German equipment, must cease immediately. General Krause accepted the terms and by 1 p.m. all German resistance ceased. Of the 25,000 prisoners already counted in this sector fewer than 400 are Italians. The count goes on.