Prague City of Chaos and Death

Manawatu Times, Volume 70, Issue 110, 11 May 1945, Page 5

Prague City of Chaos and Death

Red Army Wildly Acclaimed

Debauched S.S. Looters Fleeing to American

Lines

United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Friday, 12.10 a.m. LONDON, May 10.

Prague is a city of chaos, says the Associated Press's correspondent in a dispatch lodged yesterday. The Russians paraded through the shattered streets and were wildly acclaimed by thousands of exultant men and women who divided their energies between pelting the jeeps and cars with flowers and removing the barricades.

There are so many dead and wounded in the city that they have not yet been counted. Czech patriots say their three-day battle against the Germans cost the Eves of at least 5000 of their countrymen.

The city erupted in a mad outburst of relief and joy when the first reconnaissance elements of the Red Army raced in from the northwest after an overnight dash of 35 miles. The broken German Army is fleeing from the Russians westward in a 56-mile-long column from Prague to the American lines. Among the Germans are members of the S.S. whom the Czechs accuse of slaughtering thousands of unarmed Czech men and boys and herding women and children before their tanks to protect them against the patriots’ fire. There are hundreds of Germans in the fields sleeping off their last drunken debauch. The sullen columns on the road include many women. SIX G-BQATS MAKE SURRENDER SIGNALS

Henlein and Frank are among the prisoners. Coastal Command planes at dawn to-day sighted six U-boats making surrender signals, says the Air Ministry News Service. Coastal Command are maintaining constant patrols while U-boats from the Atlantic and elsewhere are coming in in conformity with the surrender terms.