Evening star., 1945-04-26
BERLIN RESISTANCE WAVES; BREMEN FALLS
Nazis Food and Wafer Run Low;
Patton May Reach Austria Today
Germans Report
New Red Gains
West Of Capital
BULLETINS.

BULLETINS.
ONDON R). - Russian
troops today battled against
weakening Nazi resistance in
the center of Berlin as the
German high command an
nounced that a Soviet wing
west of the capital had driven
to Rathenow, 1412 miles from
American positions on the
west bank of the Elbe. The
advance represented a 2312-
mile gain for the Russians
from Nauen.
ONDON (P. - Russian
troops have captured the port
of Stettin on the Oder estuary,
Premier Stain announced to-
night.
Fy the Associated Press
LONDON, April 26.-Victorious
Red Army troops surged across
the Elbe River today toward an
imminent junction with Ameri-
can armies as other Soviet forces
frightened a steel moose around
Berlin, battling to the city'S
flaming heart through fanatical
opposition.
Berlin's water, gas and food stores
were running low, Moscow dispatches
said, but the Germans fought bitter
ly in subways and on rubble -strewn
streets, under rain of bombs and
shells that plastered rail stations
and Spree River bridges.
Men of the Red Army today are
fighting in the heart of the German
capital" said Tass story datelined
Berlin"
The dispatches gave no details, but
probably referred to the vicinity of
the Alexander Platz, the center of
the capitals business district. Ear
lier Nazi broadcasts said the Rus
slams were storming the Alexander
Platz police and Gestapo headquar-
ters, about half mile from the east
ern end of Unter den Linden.
Reds Swarm Over Elbe.
Meanwhile. Marshaf@ Ivan S.
konev's 1st Ukranian Army swarmed
over the historic Elbe barrier in a
momentous advance which toppled
the west bank fortress city of Riesa,
rs miles south of the capital and %
miles from Allied-reported Ameri-
can positions on the Nude River
only 18 miles from Yank bridge
heads on the Nude as reported by
the Germans.
Possibly 100000 German troops
were caught in Berlin as Premier
Stain announced encirclement of
the city by two mighty Soviet armies.
The Hamburg radio, main Nazi sta
ton still operating. began every
newscast with the slogan, the
Fuehrer is in Berlin!" There was
possibility that the Soviet trap also
had shared Propaganda Minister
Paul Joseph Goebbels.
Elements of Konev's army and
Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's 1st
White Russian Army completed the
encirclement yesterday and ploughed
onward into the city, overrunning
the districts of Lichtenfelde, Zeh-
lendorf, Treptow and Britz, the lat
ter only a mile from the great Tenn
pelhof Airdrome.
Radio Station Captured.
Russian eyewitness accounts from
Berlin told of the capture of a radio
station and the seizure of an artil-
lery shooting grounds in the north
western section of the city and
penetrations into Jungfernheide
Park area north of Charlottenburg
The LIST White Russian Army was
pressing into Jungfernheide from the
Falkenhagen sector on the west as
we'll as from the north. Under cov-
er of heavy artillery fire, the Rus
slams also moved into the Spandau
state forest just outside Spandau.
Driving eastward from the cap
tured suburb of Doebritz, Russian
tanks approached the western bank
of the broad Havel River across
from Charlottenburg and south of
Spandau.
A sector containing railway and
highway bridges leading into Char
lottenburg and then on eastward
into Berlin was being shelled.
!. Southwest of Berlin, Marshal
Konev's storm groups took the sub
urh Of Lichterfelde and broke out in
three spearheads. One went north
ward past the botanical gardens
into Dahlem toward Charlottenburg,
a second moved northeastward up
the Berlin -Magdeburg railway and
highway into Steglitz. A third still
farther to the northeast joined up
with forces already attacking in the
area Of the Templehof Airdrome and
the Schoenberg sector.
The Russians also took the Argus
aviation plant, another gas works, a
railway station, a water pumping
station and a hospital, a Moscow
dispatch said. Crossing the Spree
River in the southeastern sector of
the city, the Russians made a deep
penetration through the Tretow dis