The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-06
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To - Miles
From Berlin
zbukov' S Troops Win Many
Bridgeheads At Vital
Stream

LONDON. Tuesday, Feb. 6.-LP
The Red Army in massive strength
surged up to the Oder rivers east
hank on a 73-mile front yesterday,
capturing Zellin, 80 miles northeast
If Berlin, while the German radio
reported Soviet troops had crossed
tbe Strategic water barrier and
were fighting on its west bank.
Moscow claimed no bridgeheads
over the Oder. but Col. Ernst Won
Hammer, German military COM
mentato2, announced from Berlin:
Northwest of Kustrin. they sue
ceeded, after heavy fighting last
ing several days, in establishing
a bridgehead on the western bank
Of the Oder which is subjected to
continuous artillery fire
Won Hammer did not locate the
crossing, but Swedish dispatches
from Berlin said it had been made
at Kienitz, eight miles northwest
of Kustrin and 50 miles from Ber-
lin.
At Zellin Marshal Zhukov' First
White Russian Army is Is miles
northwest of Kustrin and six miles
southwest of Barwalde, captured
Sunday.
The nightly communique broad
cast from Moscow reported that
Zhukovs troops had won positions
on the Oder from Zellin south and
southeast to Radnitz, So miles
southeast of Frankfurt.
Among the more than 100 towns
taken in this push to the river
we're Go-itz, between the bastions
Of Kustrin and Frankfurt, and 40
miles due east of Berlin; Tirpitz,
five miles south of Goritz and five
north of Frankfurt; Reipzig, five
miles southeast of Frankfurt and
less than mile from the river;
Rampitz, three miles from Furs-
tenberg, defense point on the
west bank, and Radnitz, five miles
from the stronghold of Crossen on
the opposite bank.
Moscow also announced further
advances in clearing the enemy
from the Samland peninsula in
East Prussia and in the Budapest
area. Tn ecommunique said So
wet troops had penetrated Poznan,
Poland, where a German garrison
estimated at 10000 has been en-
clrcled for 10 days. and captured
an armament factory, collecting
much booty
One German broadcast said of
me lighting northeast of Berlin:
The Russians are trying with
every means in their power to
WIDEN the small bridgeheads they
nave set up in the Kustrin sector.
me weather has become colder
ana the ground harder, but recent
warm winds have played havoc
SSlh Ice on the Oder.
russian tanks which tried to
sank.
The Russians have not been
t soie 10 make much progress in
Oder" i'0A III oii 'A'e
>. inns disclosure by the Germans
" !. crossing farther north, although
;ns uio not locate them specifically,
s sva the Russians might be
~ Hseh less than 80 miles from Ber-
o+ with the capture of Goritz and
slas communications centers
'ois he Oder, the Russians won
b;a hilA grip on all railroads and
j Always east Of the Oder.
j he mtolher captured town, Schaum-
nor s is three and one-half miles
ann ..l"eSt OF kustrin, the closest
npl'. to that city officially an
tbe ~ by the Russians, although
trim uellhans have reported Kus-
n under fierce assault.
the Fasl accounts of the war on
Armr eastern a Front gave the Red
odar,s control of nearly all the the
ni1a . east bank, winding $50
port tS =. Soufhward from the Baltic
Geo. ol stettin to Ratibor near the
TbsliosloVVak border.
large MOSCOW bulletin ignored
that that sectors SECTORS Of this front, notably
AMI s ~" of Stein in Pomer-
Germ nr that in silesia, where the
Konau'1 asserted Marshal
least ~, army has established at
Di d. nalf-a-dozen bridgeheads.
Gated Sp'tehes from Moscow indi-
were n oo'n zhukov and Konev
j acrosd preparing TO move en- masse
'ne Oder for the second stage
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