MUNICH SURRENDER REPORT AWAITED

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 100, 30 April 1945, Page 5

MUNICH SURRENDER REPORT AWAITED

CITY NOT DEFENDED

Patton's Troops In Battle On Danube • N.Z. Press Association—Copyright Rec. 12.30 p.m. LONDON, April 29. Munich may have already surrendered to General Patch's tanks and infantry which entered the city late this afternoon, but communication difficulties have prevented confirmation that it is in American hands, says Reuters correspondent with the Seventh Army. The latest reports suggest that the city was not defended.

General Patton's columns along an 80-mile Danube front are meeting their first organised resistance since their Rhine crossing, but the advance toward the southern redoubt goes on relentlessly, says Reuters correspondent with the Third Army. It looks as though the Germans have halted their headlong flight through Bavaria and have decided to give battle on the approaches to the mountains. One thousand Germans using 100 machine-guns fought bitterly in defence of the Cheb airfield, inside Czechoslovakia, 11 miles south-east of Ash, on the Czech-German border.

Paris radio stated that French troops are now 20 miles inside Italy.