The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-27
British Take
Bremen, Push
|0nDock
Censorship Covers Yank
Positions AT Reported
Junction Area

JuuCl1Ou area
LONDON, April 26-tP-The
Swiss radio said tonight that
\ '1inkup" between the Amer
leans and Russians in the Elbs
region took place this after.
noon on a front of many
miles,
There was no confirmation
from Allied sources.
PARIS, Friday, April N-R-
Heavily-gunned U. S. Third Army
tank columns battled eight miles
from Austria yesterday in n bid
for a swift showdown with last
stand enemy troops massing at
the border, and in the north the
British captured Germany's sec.
ond greatest port Of Bremen.
AS these blows fell on the north
and south segments of dismem-
bered Germany, Allied capitals Of
Europe buzzed with rumors start
ed by Swiss radio report that
the Americans and Russians had
met in the Elbe river area on "a
front of many miles,"
Censorship covered American
positions at the reported junction
area. But a front dispatch from
the U. S. First Army told of a
patrol moving at will through Ger
man lines between the Nude and
Elbe rivers.
Bremen fell after n whirlwind
assault Of two days, and only snip.
ers remained in the rubble to
challenge the victorious British
moving through the dock area OF
what once was a city of $4,000
people.
While the world awaited confirm.
alton that the Americans and Rus.
slams had met somewhere near
Berlin, Gen. Patton's U. S. Third
Army in ground-eating strides was
95 miles from a junction with the
Red Army in Austria that would
convert Czechoslovakia into
giant German trap.
In close echelon with the U. S.
Seventh and French First Armies,
Patton's forces broke across the
Danube at three points-leaving
that river line shredded along
18O-mile front and Munich imperil.
ed by three separate American
columns each about 40 miles from
the city.
Some 20 divisions in these Three
Armies were pressing steadily
southwark, bent on engulfing the
Nazi Alpine redoubt before the SIS
troops could get set for stand.
A decisive battle appeared 10
be shaping up on Patton's front
nearest Austria, where Germans
were massing in the mountain
passes 70 miles from Hitler's
Berchtesgaden to meet the shock
of the south-bound tanks and infan.
try.
The French sweep along the
Swiss border completed the ems
velopment of the Black Forest,
where trapped Germans were sur.
rendering by the thousands.
The U. S. Seventh Army, seiz.
ing 1885 prisoners, was rampage
ing through the mountains more
than 80 miles south of the Danube.
It's bridgehead at Dillingen now
was 81 miles wide and the 10th
Armored Division SIN ash Ing
straight south was only a mile
from Memmingen, 81 miles south
of the Danube and IS miles from
the Austria border.
Farther east, the 18th Ar1nored
Division turned up unexpectedly
at Munsterhausen, 10 miles south.
west of Augsburg, city which was
being quickly outflanked by num-
erous columns some 10 miles or
less away.
In the center of the front, Ger.
man troops in flight from falling
Berlin crowded the Elbe's east
bank-wnere a few weeks before
they fought to hold off the Ameri.
cans-clamoring to be taken pris.
oners by the U. S. Ninth Army
before the Russians engulfed them.
Other Eleventh Ar1nored forces
pressed miles farther east to the
vicinity of Furholz, eight and 4
half miles from the Austrian Dor.
der, and on south to Roehrnbach.
10 miles from Austria. Advanced
units were about 95 miles from
last reported Russian positions.
Patton's troops crossed the Dan.
ube for the first time on an 49,
mile front and all but encircled
the stronghold of Regensburg.
which lies about 90 miles west
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