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K71 S71 i-'r: Text of President's Statement Proclaiming VE-Day C1B We can repay the debt which we owe to our God, to our dead and to our children only by work by ceaseless devotion to the responsibilities which lie ahead of us. If I could give you a single watchword for the coming months, that word is work, work, work. We must work to finish the war. Our victory is but half won. The West is free, but the East is still in bondage to the treacherous tyranny of the Japanese.

When the last Japanese division has surrendered unconditionally, then only will our fighting job be done. We must work to bind up the wounds of a suffering world to build an abiding peace, a peace rooted in justice and in law. We can build such a peace only by hard, toilsome, painstaking work by understanding and working with our Allies in peace as we have in war. The job ahead is no less important, no less urgent, no less difficult than the task which now happily is done. I call upon every American to stick to his post until the last battle is won.

Until that day let no man abandon his post or slacken his efforts. And now, I want to read to you my formal proclamation of this occasion: By the President of the United States of America: A PROCLAMATION The Allied armies, through sacrifice and devotion and with God's help, have wrung from Germany a final and unconditional surrender. The western world has been freed of the evil forces which for five years and longer have imprisoned the bodies and broken the lives of millions upon millions of free-born men. They have violated their churches, destroyed their homes, corrupted their children, and murdered their loved ones. Our armies of liberation have restored freedom to these suffering peoples whose spirit and will the oppressors could never enslave.

Continued on Page Washington, May 8 (UP)-Following is the text of President Truman's speech: This is a solemn but a glorious hour. General Eisenhower informs me that the forces of Germany have surrendered to the United Nations. The flags of rea9n fly all over Europe. I only wish that Franklin D. Roosevelt had lived to witness this day.

For this victory we join in offering our thanks to the Providence which has guided and sustained us through the dark days of adversity. Our rejoicing is sobered and subdued by a supreme consciousness of the terrible price we have paid to rid the world of Hitler and his evil band. Let us not forget, my fellow Americans, the sorrow and heartbreak which today abide in the homes Uf so many of our neighbors neighbors whose most priceless possession has be rendered as a sacrifice to redeem our liberty. LATE NEWS it it it it it EATHER cloudy tonight; cool tomorrow. BROOKLYN, N.

TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1945 Bntred it the Brooklyn Post, office 3d dias Mail Mtu-r 3 CENTS (Copyrtaht 1 rh Brooklyn Bad. Int.) No. 125 DAILY AND SUNDAY nn Ml ifh WW OJ 1 1 UUP L3 nn ALL 'MUST WORK FOR ABIDING PEACE ROOTED IN JUSTICE' Local Casualty Chart The following chart shows the number of Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau and Suffolk men In the army and navy who have been listed as killed, wounded, mussing and prisoners since the war began, according to a Brooklyn Eagle survey, showing also the national figures of the Army and Navy Departments. WAR ENDS OFFICIALLY AT 6:01 P.M. CITY DOING IT ALL-OVER AGAIN TODAY Early Celebration Restrained as Street Groups Hear Radio Blare Truman's Tidings Rv VIOLET BROWN 164 Local Men On Casualty Lists The War Department today, announcing the Army woundea 9.030 Missing 1,164 691 244 86 Prisoners 1,367 757 256 105 it was all to do over again today as New York's 245,681 Washington, May 8 J.R) President Truman, announcing the "unconditional surrender" of Germany, told the country today that the war was only half over and warned the Japanese that they can expect-nothing but complete destruction unless they too surrendered.

Mr. Truman proclaimed the end of the war in what he called a "solemn but a glorious hour," and called on the nation to pray for strength to bring about the end "of treach Killed 2.611 1,211 420 171 351 26 79 36 Nazis Who Hold Out To Be Treated as 'Outlaws'-Churchill By VIRGIL PINKLEY Paris, May 8 (U.R The blood- 4.297 1.321 SOB 631 420 140 46 firemen, policemen, alr-rald wardens and other volunteers got the VE-Day signal mobilizing them to handle a city's joy. How boisterous the celebration will be now that the good news is staid, was tossing ticker tape and official was a question police were snake-dancing on the narrow side- Brooklyn Queens Nassau Suffolk Navy Brooklyn Queens Nassau Suffolk NATIONAL Army (May S) 300 248 69 38 not prepared to answer. eiiainiyjWaks between Its high buildings iest war ln European history vi me Japanese." will come to its official end at' "When the last Japanese division has surrendered un- rr i i Ann 1 1 i 1 i i i.i. i the garment district, throwing rainbow-colored textiles out as if paper alone could not express Its joy, was Totals Dead Prisoners 77,110 Missing 80.364 Wounded 520.208 a.m.

tomorrow (6:01 win uur ngnung joo aone, ne 848 089 1 2 01 many of those who regard as ft combination New Yeats Eve and Fourth of July, regardless of what it cost to get there and how much it will yet cost to reach VJ-Day. awoke this morning with much nf their exuberance drained as 8 170,407 in a frenzy which spread clear over said. Navy (Including Marine Corps and Coast Guard) (May 8) to Brooklyn where the Continental 9.132 15.405 26.112 I Undergarment Company of 38 6th 2.370 1,880 53019 m' Brooklyn lime todav). 48990 European time, with the for-1107 end of hostilities on a Ave. sent its employes home for He read the proclamation to the world by radio.

Simultaneously the President issued a statement of to the Japanese which said: Navy Marine Corps Coast Guard 867 104 32.310 210 13.933 793 result of too much VE-Day minus 1. the day, and Borough Hall was be names or 225 soldiers killed in action, 4,123 wounded, 145 missing and 203 liberated, listed four Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island men dead, 146 wounded, four missing and five liberated from German prison camps. The navy listed six dead and four wounded. Local casualty lists are on Page 9. Call the Brooklyn Chapter, American Red Cross, and arrange to donate a pint of blood NOW.

TRiangle 5-8040. continent desolated by more jcoming a mess of office-made con ifettl and scrsD DADer. Little Groups Collect So lone as thoir lonrlprs 103,116 4,250 Totals 40,938 47.925 10,103 Story nn Page 3 The lirst reaction ioaa. From tnen until Times wm restrainea. in ine uuie cuu, re nyslerical Hawkers than five years of conflict.

the war the slriking powpr and intcnfiity of our blows wm The agreement formalizing the steadily increase and will bring utter destruction to Japan's unconditional surrender will be rati-j industrial war production, to its shipping and to everything fied in Berlin today, with Ffeld Mar-, that supports its military activity." shal Wilheln, Keitel. chief of the WRh what spmpcl bp to uncondl. German high command, officially tlonal Japanppe surrender, the President coupled a statement Diehard Nazis Fight On In Isolated Pockets that acknowledging 1 that "unconditional surrender does not mean the extermtna- holes on Mvrue Ave. wneie wpre snoutlngi bobby-socked girls made and odds and ends sold, truckjn- and otnm were kiss. taxicabs with their radios tuIiing service men with enthusiasm, on, peop stopped on their way to dim civUjan work to listen to President Truman ghouWers and the reeU ln say 'our victory but half-won TnM1 tne emo.

Then, as harbor voice of Mayor LaGuardia. blared, auto horns honked 1 and MM the WNYC b. church bells tolled the little group on lhe squarecame around radios stood up to the strains of "The Star-Spangled Banner," theover tne heaas of tne crowa-bits of scrap paper statred to fly and Mavor urges Patience or enslavement of the Japanese people." beaten. Sitting around the table Keitel in Berlin will be: Before going on the air Mr. Truman, surrounded by the Troops in Prague, Yugoslavia, Netherlands And Baltic Island Ignore Cease Fire Order hif government told a crowded news conference Supreme commander.

ttnat lne watchword of the nation now should be "work, lsoidu, London. Mav 8 (U.R) European reports saia i work and more work the peace in iurpe was omciai. "Maybe there's still some fighting Brooklyn planned to give thanks pockets of diehard Nazis still were resisting in Czechoslova--zhilkCK, commander of the 1st white Amplirail tn ln hi. nn nnt1, tha vc.wionrts anri t.hp Raltir. Is and of'Rnssum Armv.

I. ra.u 1 1,011 Amencan to stick to his post until the going on. You don know ana 1 i Ma, t. a. battle is won." he said.

"Until that, riav let no man Bornholm today despite Allied proclamations of VE-Day. 'Murder Pact' Leads To Fatal Stabbing Hollywood, May 8 (U.R Mrs. Doris fin i mint unu iin de TassiRiiy. Commander of the abandon his post or slacken his efforts." don't know. Let's not be childish about it.

We have trusted in Eisenhower; we have stood by our Government through this war. Let's be The commanders of the last majoi survivine German armies ln the Declaring that he wanted it emphasized repeatedly that Continued nn Pae Dat.lent for lust a few more hours Reld. 32, explained to police today URGES NORWAY field in Czechoslovakia and Nor and behave in a manner befitting 'hat stabbed William I way agreed to unconditional surrender, but some troops ln Prague Kenneth Strang, 40, under terms of the great people of a great French 1st Army. To save lives, the cease fire order! already has sounded. But Lhe fighting went on today in some small and scattered sectors.

Fanatical Nazis, defying the high command's unconditional surrender, held out in some part of Czechoslovakia, in French Atlantic ports, the Channel islands and some pin a "mutual murder pa.ct" which made death the penalty for unfaithfulness. NOT TO PUNISH refused to obey the cease fire order Fuehrer Grand Admiral Karl Doe- and dedicate Itself to the task yet ahead with a prayer meeting on the steps of Borough Hall at 5 p.m. The city as a whole will have a five-hour observance starting at the same hour and continuing until 10 p.m. on the Mall in Central Park. And at 8:30 p.m., for the first time since Dec.

7, 1941, the Statue of Liberty will be clothed in floodlights and remain so through the night and every night thereafter ln symbol of the world's emergence toward the light of peace. Times Square Jammed Yesterday's celebrating started ilowly at 9:35 a.m. when the Associated Press report on the Ger Traffic Begins to Move The agreement, she said, also gave That, like a dash of cold water, Tht to "cut" her If she nltz broadcast over the German radio that, under the terms of Ger-manv's unconditional surrender, all Allies in Berlin Today Will Ratify Surrender TRAITORS NOW "stepped out" on him. did It. The crowd began to break up and by 4:30 p.m.

was moving again in Times Square. hostilities throughout Europe would points the Aegean. end at 11 ociock uerman urae io London, May iu.ki crown "mcelR rt Outl-i Street cleaners began to tackle O.m. Brooklyn time) tonight. tn rhirf nf Nor-I -H ih Strang was found dead in a prrk-lng lot outside a cocktail bar, a knfe plunged into his heart.

Mrs. Reid said she "just went crazy" when Strang devoted himself to his ex-wife, Mrs. Lola Strang, the damage and today It was esti U. S. Officers In Prague forces disclosed today that We continued in some considerable! 1don' UJ Min-jmanders in chief of i i iron nth nut tster Chiirchi announced that'Aln'- A' the German Forces.

mated that more than 1.000 tons nf njar.vlt.al rn uerman resusiance in rraguc Ainea uooiis win dp i nuw uuimci i ii. -f r'luii'phill -vrl 1 if 1 Churchill said the uncondl- ri-ln HrinUnn- expeciea io oe crusiiea disarm me capiiumwu tunc ui umi, un ninui a un imuuiutmi iorm 1 surrender of Germany was vage, nad been wasted. Sanitation! Commissioner William P. Carey I uaison onicers oi me jq Army ai- aaii.twu ucrmans mere. "ci wm.

nun uie u.iu 'ratified and confirmee man surrender came over the city's radios. By 11 a.m. Times Square, jammed, was closed to traffic as far at 48th Wall Street, usually I readv were in the city and a Bras-. Olav. In a broadcast to Norway.

oeaaune, wey would Become Continued on Page 13. HERE TO FIND Mi'sels broadcast said American tank.called for calm and urged his conn-loutlaws under the rules of war and I unforin- rilv Irvmnn nnt. In tnliA m1Ur In l.hrlr'wOU (1 DC HltHCKCd lrom a 1 slrtps today in Berlin by the western Allies and Russia, Officials who will confirm and ratify the surrender agreement to Paqi Tn Patriot, rnriio In Prnono sairi nun hands in nnnlxhlne traitors and by the Allies. 13 some German units were burning Germans. Thp Oerman "peace'' government houses, murdering Czech civilians! "F.ven though the Germans Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz.

Bridoe Comics Crossword Paqn 1 4 lObituaries 21 'Our Fiqhtsrs 16 iPat'orns 3 i Radio 12 ISociety Our Biggest Job-Whipping Japan-Still Ahead, War Bond Chief in Boro Warns 16 and looting ln defiance of orders of rapltulated that does not end the their commanders. The broadcast 'state of war," he said. "Until all 21 Currie Dr. Brady ineri at 2:41 am. yesterday at Reims.

Duenna and General Jodl, repre M'liun the German High Com mi and. signed for Germany. Lit. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, Eisenhowers chief nf staff, and Gen.

Francois Rcvez signed for the Western Allies, and Gen. Ivan Suslo-narov for Russia. Evrn in the hour of Allied in Europe Churchill turned oher attention to the war against Japan. He warned that Japan "with all her treachery and greed, (-mains unsubdued we must now oncentrate all forces tor the Us ahead." 'called on Patriot units to "reply to enemy forces have been disarmed, successor of Adolf Hitler, was carrying on a semblance of official functions at Flensburg on the Danish front ier. Doenitz offered today In a Flens- 17, 18 Editorial 1 Ibports the determining factor will be the these bandits with hard blows, Grin and Beat It 12 Tak My Word 12 military operations which must be day in Berlin, Churchill said, were: For the western Allies Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur William Tedder, deputy supreme commander.

For Russia Marshal Gregory Zhukov, commander of the 1st White Russian Army For France Gen dr it ride Tassigny. commander of the French 1st Armv For Germain --Field Mughal Wtlhelm Keitel. chief of the Ger- Fighting extended from the out skirts to the center of Prague, but undertaken in order to carry outiburg broadcast to continue the parts of the enemy forces were lay-1 terms of the capitulation." i leadership of the Oerman govern 12 iTheateri lfilThese Women 16 iTommy Holmes 12 iTuclcer Clifford E. Paige, chairman of the Kings County War Finance Committee, said today: "Although the European war In over, the people of Brooklyn still have before them their biggest Job of supporting the final effort to bring Japan to her knees. The Kings County War Finance Committee urges every man and woman to keep up with the war effort to the fullest extent and to buy more and more war bonds." Hdlfarnan Hlen Worth Horoscope Lindley Mary Haworth Moving Novel tng down their arms, the broadcast The Crown Prince said he had putjment during the Allied occupation said.

Norwegian air, land and naval units of the Reirh. Th Patrlol -controlled Prague in Britain and Sweden at the dtspo- Rcichmarsha! Hermann Goering. 15 lUncle Bay 10'Wani Adi 14 I Women 1R-70 IS, IS Continued on Page II Continued on rage 13 Contlnued on Page Uman High Command, and the com-.