The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-03
War Highway
Also Sliced,
Berlin Says
Russians Silent On Claim
That Thousands OF
Enemy Are Trapped

LUNDON, odlui ooJ, Aoi I'll o.
lp-The Germans announced last
night that Red Army spearheads
had rolled within four miles of
the Baltic Pomeranian coast, slash
ing the Berlin-Stettin-Danzig mill
tary supernighway near oeslin
and trapping scores of thousands
Of Nazi troops in a 5,800-square-
mile section of northeastern Pom
erania, the Polish Corridor"
and Danzig.
The Soviet High Command did
not Immediately confirm this SER
sational development, telling only
Of the capture of 80 villages on
the western side of the Baltic sail
emit. Moscow apparetly was wait
ing until the narrow tank-tipped
wedge had been strengthened be-
fore announcing that Pomerania
had been chopped in two and an
other great trap sprung on the
Keeling foe.
Striking % miles north Of cap
tured Bublitz, Marshal Rokossov-
sky's Second White Russian Army
veterans reached tn e Koeslin-
Schlawe section of the big high
way at Anow after three days hard
fighting and the employment of
$4,000 men, an enemy broadcast
said.
The Berlin-Danzig trunk railway
last artery connecting central
Germany with t he imperilled
northeastern forces - lies only a
mile north of AznoW, within easy
range of Russian guns, and one
German Transocean Agency re-
port from the front said that So
Wet troops also had reached it.
Backed by six divisions, three
armored and three motorized in
fantry. Russian vanguards yester-
day we're feeling their way for
ward to the eastern outskirts of
Koeslin' bottleneck junction town
four miles southwest of Zanow
and four miles from the coast,
the Germans said.
The nearest the Russians were
placed to Koeslin officially by
Moscow was at captured Dubber-
tech five miles northwest of Bub-
ltz and l9 miles southeast of
Koeslin. With the seizure of this
Village one Soviet column was on
y 10 miles northeast of Gross
Jychow, site of large American
prisoner Of war camp.
Although it is likely the Ger
mans already have begun moving
these prisoners westward, dis
patch to the Russian newspaper
lVesha said that great numbers
Of Allied war prisoners were be-
ing freed in the sweep through
Pomerania.
Attacking on 22-mile front
northwest and west of Neustettin,
taken Wednesday, t h Russians
gained up to nine miles from their
previous positions as they expand
gu me western size of the Baltic
salient. Among the places taken
were hlingbeck. eight miles north
west Of Neustettin, and Gissolk.
.ipe miles west of Neustettin and
sA miles from Baerwalde, Ger
o o.al stronghold on the Stettin-
'Vnla"e superfhighway.
Inc Soviet bulletin also an
n NV; the capture of Juchow,
aiile miles southwest of Neustet-
p p ana the Germans said other
so yu army troops had broken into
JIv ',ao 26 miles southwest of
IA t NV. after attacking the town
now, tineS' Schoenfeld is five miles
Fr im Of Russian-held Maerkisch-
sra a,Sntenlng their knot on the en-
81. s'' troops pocketed in East Prus-
nil mil 'ne russians gained up to one
Of w. VII l6-lnile front southwest
caG 1tHiooeenlgsherg, capturing six To-
b a1f including Rosen, two and
and I0n II miles southwest of Zinten
sen a ~ miles southeast of He'll
mile and Mertensdorf, five
M, southeast of. Braunsberg.
coro re Germans in this area are
p ocbet s'S.3' into 325-square-mile
and ~ WIN their backs to the sea,
made e 10y Iomeranian breakthrough
tran 4'elf sector trap within
repo nr only other new development
cleari ,eu by Moscow was the
Grudzissa'o 81 the southern part of
strongbo,a' ehclrcled vistula river
south '', ~ = In the Polish corridor
tod Of MAR Dahzls. but Berlin also
len mo ur@vy lighting in the Sude-
west oottnwel'dnitz, 27 miles south
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