BRITAIN’S VE-DAY

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 134, 8 May 1945, Page 7

BRITAIN’S VE-DAY

ANNOUNCEMENT DELAYED. “BIG THREE” AGREEMENT. (Rec. 11.40 a.m.) LONDON, May 7. The' Ministry of Information lias issued a statement that tomorrow will be treated as VE-Day. The official statement that the war in Europe is over lias been delayed and will not be made until tomorrow afternoon. The delay has been caused by tlie agreement between Mr Churchill, President Truman anil Marshal Stalin that the announcement should he made simultaneously in London, Washington and Moscow. ■ The Columbia Broadcasting System s correspondent says President Truman and Mr Churchill were prepared to broadcast the official news of tlie surrender at noon today, but they delayed it because Marshal Stalin was not ready.

lIIMMLER ORDERS DEATH DESTRUCTION OF PRISONERS. LONDON, May 7. An official announcement from Shaef states : “Wo have captured documents from Himmler, dated April 14, ordering that no prisoners in the notorious Dachau concentration camp ‘shall be allowed to fall into tlie hands of the enemy alive.’ “Himmler instructed that the camp should be evacuated immediately anti distinguished Allied prisoners released by the Germans under Swiss diplomatic protection. These included Lord Lascelles, the Master of Elphinstone, Mr Winant and General liors. Himmler was directly responsible for the crimes perpetrated in the concentration camp at Auschwitz where more'than 4,0CMf),000 people are ■ reported to have been killed, says the Moscow newspaper lravila. Between 10,000 and 12,000 persons were murdered daily in the death chambers. German doctors carried out experiments on a thousand persons who were sterilised and inoculated with cancer, typhus and other diseases and poisoned to try out new materials. The camp was established directly by the German Government and organised by Himmler who inspected the camp and informed himself of the methods of mass extermination. The camp was extended anil provided with new methods oi extermination under his orders,

DOENITZ DEFIED (Rec 1.30 p.m.) LONDON. May i. Despite the German surrender m Denmark, the commander of the Danish Island of Bornholm has refused to surrender, states the British United Press correspondent in Copenhagen. Russian planes raided the two island towns of Ruenne and Neksoc twice this afternoon. The German eommnuilei is a gS-ycar-okl naval captain.

KING LEOPOLD FREE (Pee 10.30 a.m.Y LONDON, May i. Klim Leo’iohl arrived m 1< ranee safe a”'! well'and is reported to have joined his family lie kill proceed lo I’,l-iw els immediately. A San Francisco message says ' |i l ,|,ii)iii Foreign Munster <M, .SpimlO is HVim- to Brussels her. Use ol a |.j,tm.. d iniiT’iid ''.Bis uver I !.e ioturii of Kin.” Boopuhl. |