Evening star., 1945-04-13
Western Front
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preaching Leipzig from the south.
west and was within 72 miles of the
Saxony capital of Dresden on tht
basis of reports many hours behinc
the action.
The 1st Army moved on Leipzig
from the northwest.
Dispatches said Leipzig should be
entered by nightfall.
A lieutenant general of the Ger
man Army captured in a hospita
today told his 1st Army captors thai
no organized defense units were in
Leipzig.
Reports of revolt in the German
Air Force, reduced to impotency
long ago. came from headquarters
of the Sd Army and the 18th Army
Group of Gen. Omar Bradley, who
commands the 9th, Sd, 1st and 18th
Armies.
The 5th Armored Division, rather
than the I'd Armored Division which
was across the Elbe, was closest tc
Berlin on the basis of 1l:05 am
dispatches from Associated Press
Correspondent Robert Eunson.
The I'd Armored Division was
meeting stiff resistance in the man.
ufacturing center of Magdeburg
(334,358) which was not. yet cleared
Across the Elbe. the division also
encountered strong opposition
suggesting that the Germans hac
shifted troops from the east.
The Germans said American
tanks in the northern drive were
approaching the Lower Elbe River
at Wittenberge.
Bridges Reported Blown.
Wittenberge is 10 miles northWes
of Berlin and so miles north O.
Magdeburg. The Germans said Elbt
bridges were blown at Wittenbergs
as we'll as at Tangermuende Wit
tenberge lies rs miles southeast O.
both Hamburg and Lubbock, German
ports on either side of Schleswie
Holsteln, to which Denmark is at
tached
The enemy asserted that seriou.
tank losses were inflicted on Amer.
lcan columns around the Elbe River
approaches to Berlin.
Repeated attacks on Magdeburg
last large city before Berlin in The
north. were reported in the German
communique.
The Germans added that Gen
Eisenhower had thrown new divi-
sions into the reduction of the Ruin
trap. but lost so tanks.
German reports said 9th Army
tanks were driving in the Elbe Val
ley on both sides Of Brunswick
which American troops were last re-
ported mopping up. One strong
force was said to be nearing Gar
delegen, 80 miles northwest OF
Magdeburg The Germans sale
American tank losses were so Grip
pllng that some divisions were
forced to regroup.
The British continued the siege o1
Bremen and fought slowly up the
last so miles toward Hamburg. Ger.
many's greatest port and seconc
largest city
The Canadians crashed into the
Dutch city of Anthem
Huge streams Of German vehicle:
were spotted moving southWestwarc
from the Linz area into the Bavari.
an redoubt.
Gen. Patton's Sd Army advanced
at will with no artillery, mortar OF
antitank fire and sighting only two
German planes.
The virtual disappearance of the
German Air Force over the Sd Army
front appeared to substantiate re.
ports of a Luftwaffe revolt" Asso-
ciated Press Correspondent Edward
D. Ball wirelessed. Two enemy
planes attacked yesterday and one
was shot down.
Dispatches from Gen. Bradley's
18th Army Group headquarters
earlier in the week said the execu.
ton of more than 100 Luftwaffe
officers had been reported.
Another officers revolt in the
Luftwaffe is anticipated Core
spondent Tom Marlborough said in
dispatch from Gen. Bradley's Of.
fees today.
On the southern end of the active
front, the American 7th Army's l4th
Armored Division crossed the Main
River, captured so towns and moved
to within so miles of the Czecho-
slovak border. The 7th and Sc
Armies were forming a double bal
to the northern gateways of the
Bavarian redoubt.