GERMANS ADVISE SURRENDER

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 249, 18 July 1944, Page 5

GERMANS ADVISE SURRENDER

Reported Arrest Of Generals MEASURES BY NAZIS

(By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Received July 1", 7.5 p.m.)

LONDON, July 17.

The Gestapo has arrested three German generals on the Russian front for having advised against continuance of the war, says the Zurich newspaper “La Suisse.” It adds that many other German officers on the Russian front have been suspended pending investigation of similar charges. The establishment of political commissars with the German Army is reported by 11. R. Knickerbocker, correspondent of the New York newspaper “P.M.” in Normandy. He says that an order indicating this was .found on German officers captured in Normandy. Orders have been issued to all company commanders to accept and help promote this effort to check defeatism and buttress the army’s lagging loyalty to the Nazi Government. The Stockholm correspondent of the “Daily Express” says that Nazi leaders and foreign quislings are preparing to save themselves in the event ot a complete German defeat. Functioning as part of the Gestapo there is an organization preparing a sale retreat line. The Nazis have begun the mass production of-forged passports. Plans have been carefully laid in Berlin for continuation of the Nazi movement underground after the war. Nazi papers and records which would enable the All'es to check on the identities and establish proofs of the criminal operations or many of the Nazi and Gestapo officers are being, destroyed. German Call from Moscow. Captured German army leaders in Moscow last night appealed to the peasants and workers of East I russia to help the approaching Red Army. the Germans are members of the I' ree Germany Committee. Their spokesman, speaking over Moscow radio to East Prussia, told. the peasants: “Stay where you are. Save your possession from the grip of the Nazi thieves. The Red Army does not wish to destroy you. Bury your potatoes. Hide your cattle.” . Workers, artisans and industrialists were told: ''Defend your workshops, tools and materials.” The Free Germany Committee in Russia expects to help to take over civil administration in East Prussia within a week.

One member of the committee said that ail the members of the committee are agreed on a programme to eliminate the Nazis from Germany. He added that Nazi laws will be automatically revoked its the Russian liberators advance on German soil. All war criminals and all those responsible for the war, in either a big or small way, will be dealt with.