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being thrown back to "the outer
town ring"
Berlin said the Russians were
using several army corps" and that
these had been ordered to take the
city quickly. Russian artillery bar
RACES had been stepped up, and
Berlin acknowledged that German
nests inside Breslau had been wiped
out by the Russians.
The Nazi garrison believed to
number 100000 men fought savagely
to hold Breslau and delay the Rus
sian advances on Berlin and Dres-
den.
Marshal K. K. Rokossovsky's End
White Russian Army attacking on
a 70-mile front gained up to 7
miles from their previous positions,
capturing 10 localities in the Polish
Corridor and in Pomerania on the
west.
Push on DanZig.
Flanking the Vistula River town
of Gniew one Soviet group seized
Dzierzazno, miles east of Gniew
and 33 miles south of Danzig. In
this area the Russians were within
8 miles of the border of Danzig ter
ritory and were attacking toward
the 10-way road and rail junction
of Starogard on the Berlin Danzig
trunk railway.
At the by-passed and encircled
Vistula River town of Grudziadz, %
miles south of Gniew, the Russians
were reported by Berlin to have
forced the remnants of the German
garrison into the southern fringe"
of the town. Thus Grudziadz ap-
peared to be on the verge of falling
To the west other Soviet forces
seized number of localities between
the severed Berlin-Danzig railway
and highway southwest of Russian
held Chojnice. These included
Gross Jenznik, miles southwest of
Chojnice and only miles from
Schlochau; Mossin, II miles south
west of Chojnice; Steinborn, miles
northeast of outf1anked Preussich-
Friedland, and Stretzin, 3 miles
north of Preussich Friendland.
Stretzin is 16 miles southwest of
Chojnice.
Two Miles Gained.
In East Prussia the Russians
gained up to miles on a 27-mile
front against bitter German resist
ance. Among the places seized were
Ecker, miles north of captured
Linden and 16 miles southwest of
Koenigsberg. At this point the
Russians were only 7 miles south of
Brandenburg, on the Frisches Haff,
Baltic coastal lagoon.
They also took Schwillgarben, 4
miles southeast of Braunsberg, the
last important stronghold left in
the small pocket.
simultaneously Russian troops re-
pulsed German attacks on Samland
Peninsula west of Koenigsberg. A
Paris radio report that Koenigs-
berg's garrison had evacuated the
capital through a corridor running
along the southern side of the penin-
sula to the escape port of Pillau,
% miles to the west, was not con-
frmed by either Moscow or Berlin.
Tank Thrust Repulsed.
The only other activity reported
by Moscow was in Hungarian-an-
nexed Slovakia along the north bank
of the Danube east of Komarom,
81 miles from Vienna. In that area
the Russians again repulsed strong
German tank and infantry attacks,
the bulletin said.
A total of 116 German tanks were
destroyed during the day, the bull
letin added.
Dispatches from Moscow said
Marshal Ivan S. Konev's 1st
Ukraine Army troops were across
the Neisse River between besieged
Guben and Forst, 81 and 81 miles
from Berlin.
The struggle along the river ex-
tended over a 60-mile front from
the Guben area south to the ap-
proaches to Goerlitz, Silesia's sec
ond city 48 miles east of Dresden,
Saxony capital
Little activity, aside from ar
tillery duels and reconnaissance,
was reported on the Oder River
front due east of Berlin, but yes
terday's capture of Poznan in
Western Poland opened what had
been supply bottleneck for Mar
shall Gregory K. Zhukov's 1st
White Russian Army. The Ger
mans expect a grand scale assault