The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-04-09
Soviiets Push
Three Miles
Into Vienna
Other Red Troops Begin
Storming Koenigsberg
Fortress

LONDON, MONDAY, april S-.4I'
Soviet tommygunners burst
three miles inside flaming Vienna
and battled within a mile Of its
heart yesterday, while other Red
Army troops began storming the
East Prussian fortress capital OF
Koenigsberg, re-encircling the city
and taking $4,000 prisoners, Mos
cow announced last night.
As Red Army shock battalions
captured the east, west and south
stations in Vienna, to the east 9TH
er assault forces crossed the Dan
ube and Morava rivers, narrow
ing the escape gap from the Aus
TRAN capital and threatening it
with total enlightenment.
Russian scouts already were re-
ported in the heart of Vienna as
the Soviet government called on
the Viemese to cut down the Nazis
and make contribution to the
liberation of Austria, whose in
dependence was guaranteed.
While. the total enlightenment Of
the second city Of Hitler's greater
Reich drew near. the German ra-
dio said that the Red Army might
be starting it's long-expected at
tack on Berlin.
The Nazi Transocean agency
said: Reconnaissance in force in
the area of Frankfurt and Kues-
trim (33 to SO miles east of Ber-
lin) suggests the beginning of the
Russian offensive toward the
Reich capital
In the REIMBURSEMENT of Koe-
nigsberg, Moscow's nightly war
bulletin announced that Marshal
Alexander M. Vasilevsky's Third
White Russian Army had smash
ed the enemys perimeter defense
line based on a circular railroad
and had captured the city's main
rail station and port.
Moscow disclosed that soldiers
OF Marshal Feodor I. Tolbukhin's
Third Ukrainian Army had driven
three miles inside Vienna and
captured the west railroad sta
ton, and that fighting was rag
ing throughout the city's western
districts.
simultaneously, other units, bat
terlng two and three-quarter miles
INTO the city from the south, cap
'ured the south and east stations,
"lthln few hundred yards of
each other and one mile from
Vlenna's famous ringstrasse mark
ing the old city area. They were
mile and a half from st. Ste
pi7h cathedral in the center of
the ring
Inc main arsenal, built and high
~ lortlfled almost 100 years ago,
ana two miles from st. Stephan's,
also was raptured.
len miles east of Vienna, Mar
snal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's Sec
p pIio Ukralnlan Army crossed the
danube river on nine-miIe front
oe'"een its confluence with the
.nofaVa and the village of. Eek
altSau' North of the Danute-Mor-
ava confluence, cavalrymen swept
front. ii41e
o, Inc Russians had narrowed to
T " miles the escape gap north of
t t,eAn II and were thrusting across
VI tne lat Marchfeld plain, seeking
W. bypass Vienna on the north
w. W. complete the enlightenment.
T TeS' OF Vienna, other units Of
tb vio TX army battered through
sa.4 VIENNA woods within rs miles
b ast OF Linz. capturing Neulenge-
i ,'a'. IL miles east of the Rev
aras OF St. Poelten. In that
49, I'd and in Vienna, 1000 enemy
CPS We're taken prisoner.
u,e oapedrheading the frontal assault
Mareho1 m 'toilll DdIta1OnS OF
ian a' s Tolbukhin's Third Ukrain-
tjg flo army. These veterans of street
ns sr'ing at stalingrad and Buda.
fropa also pushed into the civ
ION the northwest WY
man p' ,e forward against Ger.
Ing n.y. tb mortar fire and heavy snip
IIdt was LAYING tho o1d
rope 'l ~ cultural center Of Eu-
into ~ IN ruins, these forces drove
terno uie city from captured KIDS
the SIpg on the Danube, and
reo. suburban areas of Josefsdorf
within Tl0s sp and Kahlenberg-all
and s the city limits and fo,,r
1con4; a half miles from St. t St..
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