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closed, and Berlin said the south
ern anchor of this line was at
LeZno, 100 miles southeast of Ber-
lin.
Garrison Faces AnnihilatiOn.
Marshal Gregory K. zhukov's
crack 1st White Russian Army swept
up more than 500 towns and vii
lagos during the day, and after
surrounding Poznan began fight
ing for the annihilation of the Ger
man garrison" the bulletin said.
Torun, big communications center
at the southern entrance of the
Polish corridor 80 miles northeast
of Poznan, also was encircled and
its garrison being reduced, Moscow
disclosed.
twenty-five miles north of Torun
other units captured the eaSt-bank
Vistula river stronghold of Chelmno,
crossed the river and broke into the
Polish corridor from the east at a
point 10 miles below Danzig. Rus
sian troops sweeping into the cor
ridor from the south of BydgoSzcZ,
25 miles to the southeast, linked up
with the troops and began rushing
toward Danzig and spreading out
through the corridor which is ad-
| joined by German Pomerania on the
west
Other End White Russian Army
troops under Marshal K. K. Rokos-
sovsky were threatening Danzig
from captured Marienburg, on the
| Nogat River in East Prussia only
rs miles southeast of Danzig Berlin
claimed fighting still ragged in Mar
ienburg and also said that Soviet
attempts to cross into Danzig ter
ritory had been frustrated.
"a Nazi Planes Seized.
Thirty-four German planes were
seized at Marienburg by Russian
troops who had cut off East Prus-
sia Friday in their thrust to the
Baltic at Tolkemit, % miles north
east of Marienburg. The midway
Baltic port of Elbing still was under
attack, Berlin said.
A total of $50 localities were taken
in East Prussia during the day, 300
of them in the direct drive which
is closing in fast on Konigsberg
Moscow dispatches said there orig
inally were 100000 Germans in East
Prussia, but said some crack NaI
divisions might have been evacuat-
ed by sea from Konigsberg before
East Prussia was cut off.
Premier Stain announced that
two Soviet armies in East Prussia
had captured nine important
strongholds in shattering the Ma
surian defense line which was "con-
sidered by the Germans, since the
days of the World War, as an i'm
pregnable system of defense"
They seized these towns on a 75-
mile arc as they drove into the heart
of Germans encircled province ::
RaStenburg, IS miles southeast of
Konigisberg, taken in a 15-mile ad-
vance west of Lotzen; Barten, 8
miles to the north, was taken in a
15-mile advance west of Angerburg
which also overran Drengfurt; Mix
olaiken, IA miles west of Arys:
Rhein, IA miles southwest of Lot
zen; Rudczanny, 9 miles west of
Johannesburg; Gross Puppen, IA
miles east-northeast of Ortelsburg;
Theerwisch, 9 miles north of Or
telsburg, and Babienten, 13 miles
northeast of Ortelsburg.
Five Large Centers Captured.
Marshal Ivan S. Konev's 1st
Ukraine Army, fighting through the
maze of factories and mines in the
Polish-German Silesian industrial
area, captured five large centers of
the Dabrowa coal region in Southern
Poland, an area which produces 4O,-
600, 900 tons annually.
Sosnowiec, with a population of
100000, was the largest city taken.
The other localities surrounding it
were Dabrowa Gorny, Bendzin,
Myslowice and Czeladz. With the
capture of the latter the Russians
were only miles from Kattowice,
largest Polish city in this rich Sec
tor and administrative center of the
area.
At Czeladz the Russians were
within S miles of the German Sile-
sian frontier town of Beuthen, and
Is miles east of Hindenburg, which
was taken Friday. Russian troops
were COMPRISING the desperate Nazi
defenders from the east, west and
north as they rapidly overran this
sector which has produced so much
war equipment for the Nazi mill
tary machine.
Across Oder at IL Points.
Eighteen miles south of Sosnowiec
the Russians captured the notorious
German concentration camp town
of Oswiecim, As miles northeast of
Moravska Ostrava, large Moravian
city on the upper Oder River in
Czecshoslovakia.
Marshal Konev's northern wing.
battling in Lower Silesia around the
i FOUND.
DOG, male, medium size, white, short
| hair, wearing rabies tag; found in Arlins-
ton. Call CH. 5460.
DOG, nice male beagle hound. Temple
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