The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-10-02
RUSSIANS STRIKING
FAR INTO HUNGARY
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..,,.h toward Ms, big rail junction
~ LII lines radiating to Belgrade, So
H. 81. and salonika. This group skirt
inc the Timok river, tributary
l If the Danube, captured Vrazosr-
mac. only 50 miles northeast OF
Mis-.
Vrazogrnac is on spur railway
which turns westward to meet
the Nis-Belgrade trunk line in the
Moravia valley at Par,cin only 43
miles away. 1T is % niles beyond
Negotin, sotthernnost point reach
ed by the Russians Saturday.
"A link-up in force with Tito's
partisans also appeared to be i'm
minent, If not already accomplish
ed, because his army units last
were reported operating just al
few miles south of Vrazogrnac in
this area near the Bulgarian from
tier.
Prahovo and Dusamovac, five
miles northeast and north respec-
lively Of Negotin, and near the
Danube were among 10 hamlets
captured by the Russians as the
Germans strove desperately to-
keep them from breaking out of
the big bend.
The Russians now hold n north
south front Of so airline miles in
side Yugoslavia, and must fight
their way through mountains ris-
ing az high as $500 feet in order
to reach the Morava valley aud
Belgrade. Front reports said Red
army men were Matchmaking hea-
w artillery up the steep west
banks Of the Danube in a steady
build-up Of the bridgehead.
The Yugoslav sector was the
only front mentioned in the So
Wet bulletin, one Of the shortest
Of the war.
An Ankara broadcast quoted q
Budapest dispatch as saying the
Red army had penetrated % miles
inside Hungary after crossing the
southeastern frontier on a 93-mile
front, but termed the operation,
as only "softening up blows be-
fore the about drive across the
Hungarian plains which is expect
ed shortly"
Budapest was tnervously tense"
said the Ankara broadcast.
The official Hungarian bulletin
broadcast by Budapest said the
fresh Russian gains were punched
out on an 11-mile front between
Mako and Csanadpalota. The lat
ter is east Of Mako, captured town
which is only Is miles east OF
Szeged, Hungary's second largest
city. The Hungarians again spoke
Of 'far superior" Russian and
Romanian troops attacking their
wavering lines.
Bitter fighting also swirled
around Oradea, big west Roman
ian communications city near the
Hungarian frontier 100 miles north
east of Szeged. The fall of Oradea
would cut the main escape route
for Nazi-Hungarion garrisons at
imperiled Cluj. Transylvanian cap
ital 80 miles to the east.
Inside ruined Warsaw the situa.
ton 'has become critical" said =
communique from headquarters OF
Gen. Tadeusz Komorowski Gen.
eral Bor) With the Russians, who
took Praga suburb Sept. IA, I'M
able to force a crossing in strength
Of the intervening Vistula river
The Polish patriots who arose Aug
against the Germans were being
chopped to pieces.
The Nazis were using flame
throwers, grenades, tanks and BIZ
guns in a systematic blasting O.
houses and cellars held by made
quately-armed Poles. Polish head
quarters admitted that contact hac
been lost with units in Zoliborz, :
northern district of the Polish cap
ital. and Berlin said the majorit,
of the patriots there had been wip
ed out and 1000 captured.
There still was fighting in tn,
center of the city, but the Pole
were being pressed back to tn,
west. and had lost Mokotow dis
trict in the south. In the Kampi
noska forest. eight miles north
west Of Warsaw, the Poles ais,
were forced to retreat and 60
were killed, Berlin said.
Baltic front dispatches left little
doubt that the siege of Riga, Lat
Wan capital, would be a long, bit
ter struggle. After evacuatinl
thousands of battle-weary Nazi
through the narrow corridor alon,
the Gulf Of Riga coast, the Ger
man command rushed up fresh re
| Inducements to hold their strong
defense line on the northeastern
eastern and southern sides Of Riga,
Germany's Yugoslav frontier de
tense line was snapped by the Rus
SLAMS with surprising ease wher
they crossed the Danube severa
days ago, front reports said.
The line mostly was series o!
Machine gun nests mounted on the
steep western banks of the river
Soviet patrols crossed the river II
canoes, fishing boats and on RATS
scaled the hills and secuted Out
enemy positions ahead Of follow
ing waves of riflemen, machine