CAPTURED GERMAN GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 195, 16 May 1944, Page 5

CAPTURED GERMAN GENERAL

Crimean Curtain’s Fall LONDON, May 14. Reuter’s Moscow correspondent reports that Lieutenant-General. Boehme, commander of the German Fifth Army Corps, raised hjs hands in surrender on Cape Khersones, the last enemy foothold in the Crimea, wit,i his back to the sea, as Soviet tanks thundered down against him. Boehme took his place in a column of prisoners over a mile long. “Red' -Star” Mates that German bodies from sunken transports are still being washed up along the shore. The Soviet communique continues to report no material changes along the front. An air communique says that large formations of long-distance bombers last night raided concentrations of enemy trains arid stores of war material at Rreste Litovsk, Polotsk and Narva. Thirty fires were started at Brest Litovsk. followed by explosions. lhe planes also machinegunned and cannoned military trains and columns of lorries on highways. Ten fires were started at Polotsk and heavy explosions were observed in the station. Fifteen explosions were caused at the Narva railway station. Girl Sniper Grqup.

Enemy infantry and tanks north-east of Tiraspol several times attacked the Russian positions, but failed to reach t|ie Red Army lines, says a supplementary Russian communique. The German tanks turned away from strong artillery fire and left their infantry uncovered. lhe Russians wiped out li battajion. Russian artillery and mortars destroyed or disabled 11 tanks and three armoured carriers. A group of girl snipers south-east pt Vitebsk has wiped out 148 Germans in the last three months. The Baltic Fleet Air Arm again hit enemy shipping at Kotka, Finland, and a 20()0-ton transport. The Black Sea Air Arm with naval units sank two transports, three landing barges and four cutters off the Rumanian coast.