The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-29
Eighth Army
Thrown Into
Soviet Push
Berlin Lies 109 Miles
Away After l6 Mile
Advance

The Red Army in 16-mile adj
vance rolled to within 100 miles
east of Berlin yesterday. com.
pletely conquered the rich DabroWa
coal fields and industries of SOUTH
ern Silesia with the capture OF
KatoWice and Beuthen, and seized
the long-surrounded Baltic port OF
Memel in a new northern often.
sive.
Premier-Marshal S t lin an.
nounced clearance of the enemy
from southern German-Polish 81.
lesia areas that produced one
fifth of the German war machines
coal supply, and the activation of
an eighth Soviet Army in the north
brought the total to perhaps 4,O00..
900 Russians now engaged in the
gigantic winter offensive
On the 18th day of the big push
Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's First
White Russian Army overran 400
more Western Polish localities be-
You'd encircled Poznan, last big
Polish city in German hands, and
deployed on an 80-mile arc facing
straight toward Berlin.
Zhukov's central columns, threat
ening to cross momentarily into
Brandenburg, Berlin's home pro-
vince, captured PnieWy, on the
Warsaw-Berlin motor road q miles
west of besieged Poznan and 100
miles due east of Berlin.
In the northwest they reached the
pre-War German-P olish frontier at
a new point by capturing Czarn-
kow, 1875 miles northeast of Berlin
and go miles southeast of Stettin,
German Baltic port. At the south-
ern end of the arc, the Russians
rolled through Lezno, 10-Way
highway JUNCTION close to the Ger
man. frontier and 100 miles from
Berlin.
While Zhukov's troops drove di.
rectfy on Berlin by the shortest
route to the Nazi capital, other Sow
let units spread out on the south
and to the norh to secure his
flanks.
In the north, the Russians drove
% miles into the Polish corridor
northwest of Bydoszcz, capturing
Sepolno, six miles from the Ger
man Pomerianian frontier and 10
miles from the Danzig-
trunk railway. At Sepolno the Rus
slams were "a miles southwest OF
Danzig.
Selling Lobzenica, 80 miles west
northwest of Bydgoszcz, another
rolled to within three miles of the
Pomeranian frontier and to with
in 10 miles east of Stetin. These
troops were outflanking on the
north the German rail center of
Schneidemuhl, 20 miles to the
southwest and Berlin said that
Schneidemuhl already was under
Soviet assault.
Other Russian troops had crossed
into the Polish corridor from the
east, ferrying the lower reaches
of the Vistula river below captur-
ed Chelmno, rs miles northeast Of
Bydgoszcz. In this section Marshal
K. K. Rokossovsky' Second White
Russian troops also cleared the
east bank of the Vistula on an
stretch between Chelm.
no and Grudziadz. Among the
places taken was Rudnik, four
miles south of Grudziadz, an inn
portant river crossing town.
Northwest of Allenstein, 62 miles
south of Konigsberg, the Russians
for the second straight day repul-
sed assaults by large German in.
:antry and tank forces attempting
to break through to the west, the
Soviet communicate said.
Moscow radio said that $50, 900
Germans were trapped in East
russia, and that the enemy had
ost a total of 40 other divisions
ince the Russians launched theip
inter offensive. THE material
ost would equip an entire army"
ne broadcast said.
Berlin said that the Russians
ad broken into the outskirts OF
-onigsberg, and there were re-
orts that the Germans already
yere dynamiting installations in
lie city amidst violent Soviet ar
llery barrage.
Moscows bulletin disclosed that
he Russians were edging around
on the north and south
S well as attacking the big city
'ontally. During the day the Rus
ians captured Trutenau, five miles
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