Evening star., 1945-04-23
Americans Veer
SoutheustWurd
On Wide Front
BULLETIN.

junction patrol" of the 83d
Infantry Divisions got ready
to jump off for meeting with
the Russian Army when it
made radio contact with mys-
terious parties somewhere to
the east of 9th Army positions.
But each contact either faded
or proved erroneous.
AMERICANS DRIVE IS miles be-
yond Bologna in offensive in Italy
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BY the Associated Press
PARIS, April 23.-Lt. Gen
George Patton'S Sd Army today
veered sharply southeastward for
28-mile gains in a new full-blown
offensive, shearing most routes
between the Pilsen-P Prague NUM-
tions area and Hitler's National
Redoubt in the Bavarian Alps.
The Luxembourg radio asserted
that the 1st Army had joined the
Russians near Torgau, 81 miles
northeast of Leipzig, finally splitting
the Germans northern redoubt from
the mountain fastness in the south.
Supreme Allied headquarters had
no confirmation and said the juno
ton would be announced by Wash
ington, London and Moscow. At
last reports, the Allies and Russians
were Is to 20 miles apart.
The 1st Army captured Dessau
d2O,0OO, So miles southwest of Ber-
lin, along with 21,373 prisoners. The
fall of Dessau left only IA German
cities under the NaA flag.
The Hellcat 12th Armored) Di-
vision of the 7th Army reached a
town on the Danube so miles from
Munich after 14-fnile sprint south
ward, it was announced. The town
was not identified. A two-lane
bridge was captured intact. The
Danube was crossed farther west.
British OpSn Attack.
In the north, the British opened
the final assault on Hamburg and
Bremen, first and second ports Of
Germany. 1t. Gen. Sir Miles C.
Dempsey's tanks pulled UP the Elbe
on a 50-mile front northwest Of the
mile stretch held by the Amer
lean 9th and 1st Armies. The Ca
nadians besieged Emden, but were
checked in Western Holland on the
flooded Grebbe- Ems River Line.
Gen. Jacob L. Dever's 9Th Army
Group-the American 7th and
French 1st Armies-reached Lake
Constance, western limit Of the
Bavarian redoubt and captured the
cities of Stuttgart (459, $3.50 and
Freiburg 011,860). They sealed Oh
thousands of Germans in q 1000
square mile pocket in the Black
Forest, containing the last intact
section of the Siegfried Line. The
pocket was formed by plunge to
the Swiss border and a point 81
miles from Austria.
Gen. Patton's new offensive car
ried to within Is miles Of Regens-
burg $4,000 on the Danube and
within 1913 miles of Berchtesgaden
His troops moved within As miles OF
Pilsen. SO miles of Prague and 125
miles of the Austrian stronghold OF
Linz.
Light Opposition.
The Sd Army swung southeast
ward along 125-mile front with
the Thunderbolt Q1th Armored)
Division spearheading the drive into
Schwarzenfeld and Nabburg, against
relatively little opposition. -
Newmarket 100000, southeast OF
Nuremberg, and Weiden were among
the towns which fell.
Gen. Patton's troops in Czecho-
slovakia and hard by the Czecho-
slovak frontier also scored gains
Thonbrun, 3 miles north OF cap
tured Asch, an industrial Sudeten-
land city of $4,000, and Dolreuth, z
miles east of Asch, were taken.
His troops were within miles oi
Eyer in the most accessible gateway
into Northwest Czechoslovakia and
30 miles from Karlsbad.
Tirschenreuth, closest to Pilsen
and Prague, fell to the Texas and
Oklahoma (90th) Division which
captured $500 Hungarian troops.
The new Sd Army offensive was