Evening star., 1945-02-12
Red Forces Driving for Dresden
Win 2 Bober River Bridgeheads;
K|eve is Captured by Canadians
Russians Score
Breuk-Throuoh
Below Berlin
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Feb. II. Marshal
Ivan Konev, virtually encircling
Breslau in SileSia and racing
ahead Is to 27 miles a day, has
forced two bridgeheads across
the Bober River rs miles or less
from Dresden, German broad
casts said today.
The Germans said Marshal Ko-
news tanks had broken into Bunz-
lau on the Bober, while to the north
they had smashed through German
defenses II miles north of Sagan
This point is about 80 miles south
east Of Berlin and only 80 miles
south Of Marshal Gregory Zhukov's
1st White Russian Army, which the
Germans said had crossed the Oder
south of Fuerstenberg.
Marshal Zhukov. the Germans
said, had made squirt to within Is
miles of Stettin, Berlin'S Baltic port.
The Germans said his right wing
had penetrated to both sides of Ma
Que See. a lake north of Pyritz,
where the Russians were menaclng
the rear of Stargard. strong point
of Stettin'S eastern defenSeS.
Rail Center Imperiled.
The break through at Sagan
menaced the rail center of Sorau, 8
niles to the northwest, and indl-
Gated that Marshal Konev's lst
Ukrainian Spearheads had emerged
IN the rear of German forces dug
in on the Oder's southern bank
southeast of Berlin.
Sagan is 27 miles west of the
farthest point which Moscow has
reported as reached.
The break-through here threat
ened to roll up the southern flank
of Berlin's defenses. while the
spearhead pointed at Stettin threat
ened the northern flank.
The drive to Bunzlau took the
1st Ukrainian Army three-fourths
the way across Lower Silesia to
within % miles of Czechoslovakia.
Breslaus only communications
we're to the southwest, toward
Czechoslovakia.
Bridge Builders Rushed Up.
On the Berlin front, Moscow dis
patches said some of the most re-
cent units rushed up to the battle
over new communications systems
were fresh bridge outfits
a clear indication that Marshal
Zhukov might be ready almost any
time to open the battle of Berlin.
The two kingpins of Berlin's de-
fense along the Oder, Kuestrin and
Frankfurt, were beginning to wear
away under incessant day and night
artillery pounding, Moscow said.
The fire from the Frankfurt forts
was diminishing, while Soviet units
crowded close to the railway bridge
supplying Kuestrin. The Nazis ran
a virtual blockade of the stronghold
last night with what may be its last
supplies.
To the northeast of Berlin the
Russians had captured the strong
point of Deutsch Krone and over
run 30 other places in Pomerania.
In the offensive toward the Baltic
port of Stettin the Germans were
still uncertain of the position of
many Soviet spearheads, Moscow
said.
Connections Interrupted.
1T is safe to say however, that
almost all connections between Dan
zig and Stettin have been inter-
rupted and that tank units are close
to the Oder near Stettin," Moscow
dispatches said.
The fall of Deutsch Krone, 63
miles from the Baltic, virtually set
tied the fate of the encircled Ger
man garrison in the railroad town
of Schneidemuehl, II miles to the
southeast.
The Germans said the Russians
had broken into the center of
Schnaidemuehl.
Below Breslau, the German COM
munique reported a strong new
strike on the Upper Oder between
Bielsks in Polish Silesia and Rati-
Dor in German Silesia toward the
Moravian gateway to Vienna and
Prague.
Above Breslau the Russians had
captured Liegnitz, a transportation
center 40 miles west and slightly
north of Breslau.
The entry into Bunzlau, IS miles
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