Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-29

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troops have crossed the Aus
trian frontier, the Free Aus
trian and Brussels radios said
today. The Austrian radio
said several border villages
in Burgenland Province had
been seized.
BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Mar. 29.-The Red
Army, lancing through the shat
tered defenses of the Bradshaw
Gap in the Danube Valley, has
reached places along the Aus
TRAN frontier, it was reported
from Moscow today.
The big Stain tanks and armored
cars of Marshal Feodor Tolbukhin s
Sd Ukrainian Army. smashing ahead
from captured Csorna, hammered
at the defenses of Pamhagen, 80
miles southeast of Vienna, ST. Jo-
ham on the frontier TO the north
east and Moson (Wieselburg) near
the Danube, 81 miles southeast of
Bradshaw. Moscow dispatches said.
Whether the units which fought
their way to the frontier planned
to remain or whether these were
scouting groups feeling out the
strength of the much-heralded for
titled zone is not known" said a dis
patch from Associated Press Cor
respondent Eddy Gilmore.
There are no indications that
any of these tanks and armored
cars actually crossed the frontier
into Austria"
Reds Drive on in Slovakia.
The German communicate an
nounced a withdrawal north of the
Danube to the Mira River and a
25-mile advance by the Russians
from the broken Hron River line
This push in Slovakia. dovetail-
ing with the assault below the
Danube, apparently placed the Rus
SLAMS close to the city of Mira, 40
miles east of Bradshaw. capital OF
the puppet government of Slovakia
and possibly as close as 80 miles to
the border of Moravia.
There was no word of the CO.
ordinated offensive of Marshal Ivan
Konev from Silesia toward Vienna
and Prague from the northeast, but
the Russians were heavily bombing
Maehrisch Ostrau in the Moravian
Gap in their approach from that
direction.
In the north the German COM
munique announced the evacuation
of Kahlholz Cape, their last toehold
on the East Prussian mainland ex-
cept north of KoenigSberg, and saio
| they had withdrawn to the Frische
Nehrung, a narrow sandspit extend
ing from Danzig almost to Koenigs-
berg between the sea and the
Frisches Lagoon.
Reach Center of Danzig.
The Russians reached the center
of Danzig, left alone by the fall OF
the rival Polish port of Gdynis
nearby, and the Germans were CIV
ing up in large numbers in the
city's main streets and squares.
The Germans said the great city.
port and harbor installations were
destroyed and only the old fortres!
area was being held. Moscow dis.
patches said most of the command.
ers had abandoned their troops, es-
Gaping by sea, and a few subma.
rines were still lurking about hoping
to rescue more of the officers. Fal
of the city seemed likely to come
abruptly.
A German plan to evacuate
Gdynia was broken up yesterday
when the Russians rushed in anG
captured 5000 Germans standing
at the docks.
The early fall of Koenigsberg
capital of East Prussia, also was
probable. The population was re-
ported reduced to the meat of dogs
and cats for food.
The fall of Gyor and Komarom
on the Danube 20 miles east of Gyor
announced yesterday by Premier
Stain, shattered the key defenses OF
the Bradshaw Gap in the Danube
Valley.
In between the three strong points
under attack, tanks, armored cars
and cavalry cut behind one group Of
Germans after another
Marshal Rodion Malinovsky's &c
Ukrainian Army was moving along
the southern side of the Danube
toward Bratislava from Gyor in CO.
ordination with Marshal Tolbukhin
Soviet bombers and Stormoviks