MUNICH TAKEN

Evening Star, Issue 25472, 1 May 1945, Page 5

MUNICH TAKEN

S.S. DIVISIONS FLEE

lid,odb ALiiEft Prisoners LIBERATED FROM GAMP

(Eec. 12.20 p.m.) LONDON, April 30. Munich has been completely occupied by Seventh Army forces, stated the British United Press correspondent. He added that the only few German troops hiding in cellars were in a quiet mood. Four S.S. divisions pulled out of Munich before our troops arrived.

The correspondent said he was writing from the central square only 300yds from the beer hall where Hitler staged his putsch. Important Nazis fled like the S.S. troops, but the lesser Nazis are believed to have locked themselves in the party building, which is surrounded. Tanks of the Eleventh Armoured Division to-day launched an attack across a 20-mile stretch of the Austrian border. Reuter's correspondent with the Third Army says the attack was made between the Danube and the Swiss frontier

One hundred and ten thousand Allied prisoners of war were liberated to-day at Mossburg, 25 miles north-east of Munich, by the Third Army's Fourteenth Armoured Division, stated the Associated Press correspondent, who added that this was reported to be Germany's biggest prisoner-of-war camp.' The prisoners included Americans, British,. Australians. New Zealanders, Poles, Russians, French, and Serbs. Some were #ar correspondents. No names are yet available. Third Army forces also discovered a vast gas depot with 95,000 poison gas honibs in woods 13 miles south of Regensburg, and captured officers and men at the dump.