Prisoners On Western Fronts Over 5,000,000

Northern Advocate, 7 May 1945, Page 2

Prisoners On Western Fronts Over 5,000,000

(.Rec. 11 a.m.) LONDON, May 6. Main activity along the British and American fronts today was the counting of prisoners who total more than '5,000,000, says a correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph at Supreme Headquarters. Sixty German generals have been taken prisoner in the past few Firm contact with the Red Army has been made along the 9th Army front. The French Ist Army has taken prisoner von Mackensen, former German Ambassador -to Italy, and von Ncurath, former German Foreign Min--ister. Gigantic Problem The huge number of German war prisoners has posed a gigantic problem for the Allies, says the United Press. Nearly 4,000,000 prisoners have been captured on the Italian and Western fronts. They must be fed, sheltered and clothed until they are returned to their own Governments, but Germany has been crushed so completely that she is not likely to have a Government for a long time. ' British and American officials are troubled by the realisation that the Geneva Convention does not take into account the result of total war, which is total defeat.