Evening star., 1944-09-10
Nazis Strike From Siegfried Line
Battle Picked American Troops;
Reds Halt Brief War on Bulgaria
Seizure Of Burgos
On Black Sea Is
Warning to Turks
MAP on Page A-lO.)
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Sunday, Sept. TO-
Soviet Russia called of her o.
hour war with Bulgaria at 10
o'clock last night. after q blood
less occupation of that codntry's
two big Black Sea ports putting
Russian troops within 80 miles OF
the Turkish frontier and within
130 miles Of Greece's Aegean sea
coast.
Premier Stain in the first politi-
cally keynoted order OF the day he
has ever issued announced a 100
mile penetration of Bulgaria to the
Black Sea port of Burgas by Gen.
Feodor I. Tolbukhin's 3rd Ukraine
Army. Admiral Oktyabrsky's Black
Sea Fleet aided in the occupation
Of Burgas SO hours after the Rus
slams had been ordered to invade
Bulgaria. Burgas is 50 miles south
of Bulgaria's other main seaport,
varna, taken Friday.
Moscow's guns and rockets cele-
brated the success of the brief war
which had achieved the Kremlin's
aim of bringing Bulgaria into the
war against Germany.
Strong Argument for Turks.
The presence Of powerful Rus
sian forces so close to the Bosporus
and Dardanelles Straits in Turkey
which link the Bleak Sea and the
AEGEAN constituted an argument
stronger than any diplomatic note
for Turkeys utmost cooperation
from here on in the Balkan cleanup
OF the Axis forces.
II the Russians move westward
through Bulgaria as fast as they
moved south they could link up
with Marshal Tito's Yugoslav Par
tisans in Macedonia within 4S hours
Marshal T1to's armies, fighting
toward the Danube, stormed into
the river and highway town of
zajecar in Eastern Serbia yesterday
in . drive which carried within 8
miles OF the Bulgarian border, the
Free Yugoslavia radio announced.
a special broadcast communique
said Tto's forces now were within
80 miles Of the Danube.
zAjecAr, on the Tumok River, Is
approximately 50 miles south OF
Turnu Severin. the Romanian
frontier city where the Russian
Army first reached the Yugoslay
border.
Driving Toward Hungary.
Meanwhile, Russian spearheads,
driving toward Hungary by way Of
Romanian Transylvania, were only
about 80 miles from the Hungarian
held provincial capital Of Cluj with
the capture of Albajulia. a city
where the Kings of Romania were
crowned. They also were only a
little more than 100 miles from the
prewar Hungarian border, and many
natural defense barriers protecting
Hungary now have been broken.
Romanian troops were aiding the
Soviet drive through Transylvania.
The occupation of ,Burgas put the
Russians only 80 miles from Greece
in the swift drive to annihilate or
capture $50, 1000 Germans estimated
to be cut of in that country and
Yugoslavia.
The Bulgarians are estimated to
have 20 good divisions which they
can hurl into the battle against
their formal comrades-in-arms, the
Nazis.
(Berlin announced that the
Red Army had begun a new
offensive in Southern Poland
aimed at Krakow, last big bastion
guarding the invasion path into
German Silesia.)
The Russians seized 100 villages
and towns. going over to the at
tack on 129-mile front all along
the eastern rim of the Carpathian
Mountains.
Among the places taken was Tar
gulsachese, II miles inside Hun
garian-held Transylvania, and "a
miles northeast of Brasov.
Above this sector other Soviet
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