The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-07
Soviiets Reach
Baltic End OF.
Stettiin s Bay
200 Mile Front Opened
For Final Assault
On Berlin

LONDON, w euneSQdy, March 4
-U1P)-The First White Russian
ARMY reached the Baltic entrance
of stettin bay Tuesday after 90
mile advance in two days, shatter-
ing the last German lines east
Of the Oder estuary and opening
tbe way for drives on Berlin along
front stretching 200 miles south
ward.
Marshal Zhukov's troops reach
ed the D:evenoW river, eastern
most of the three narrow passages
into the Stettln roadstead. by cap
turing the small fishing port of
Cammin, lying SO miles northeast
Of Stettin and four miles from the
open sea.
Gaining as much as % miles on
Tuesday along looping 115-
mile front, the First White Rus
sian Army raced through more
than 500 Pomeranian localities and
seized the major road and defense
centers of Belgard, TreptoW, Erie
Plathe.
The Soviets' Berlin Front now
was completed except for minor
hopping up along virtually a
north-south line, extending along
the Oder from the sea to its con-
iuence with the Niesse, thence
along the latter stream to the foot
hills Of the Sudeten mountains.
Germans broadcast said the So
VETS were pouring seven armies
into the line for imminent frontal
and flank assaults on the Reich
capital, now 81 miles from Rus
sian vanguards on the middle Oder.
On Zhukov's right flank, the Sec
ond White Russian Army under
Marshal Rokossovsky began swing
ing back northeast to clean out
scores Of thousands of Germans
pqcketed in a 1000 square mile
area based on Gdynia and Danzig.
The encircled Polish fortress of
GIudziadz, Sc miles south of Dan
zig fell to the Second Army after
TWO weeks siege and 5000 Ger
mans were captured, including the
CITY commander, a Major General
II cke, and his staff.
The German commander of the
Aoealln area, Lieutenant General
Won AieloW, also was captured as
Ne f4fSl and Second Armies seiz-
Gu 5'OoO prisoners from pockets in
Me bel3ard area of Pomerania
where their fIanks were joined.
Employing force that Berlin
e<1Aated at $4,000 men and 1000
tanks, the First White Russian Ar
NY also drove to point only l9
N1eS IRON SW-nemuende, COM
"i'iiolh9 the main or middle ship
snanne, to Stettin port, and to
Itself, ~ N''' VI o'e''iil
NM MOSCOW dispatches said the city
t 1aS III Held gun range on both
I liV east and southeast and the
;s German columns streaming
i in olettln from the collapsed Bal
~ A0ilV were being heavily she'll
zay5o atacnlns Cammln, incidently,
only NV sa $ forces drove 10 a point
is1 .' O9 miles south of the Danish
, sh'l OF Bornholm, commanding
l4n p mig IN the western Baltic, and
Tb '1lieS from Copenhagen.
No., o.' uFlVe to the Pomeranian cor
wave S'IIled across four major high
The an, anu TWO traverse railroads.
oo ns speed with which if was az.
tSa s''pa asa suggested that most of
th ly Offenders en- had pulled ed out
Of tbe sn stettin, escaping the fate
The her p; comrades to the east.
reached ~ "hlte Russian Army
drive Cammin in a two-day
IL I've e. nom Regenwalde. % miles
Patches s southeast, Moscow dis
portaet revealed, selling the i'm
and c, functions of Griefenberg
east any nd-1oW respectively, II miles
min ~ - 1- III les southeast of Cam
c5n on the flanks OF the push.
miles ' aa IS a Port of 5000, four
row nj 4oaln from where the mar
onIv u e: channel, navigable
the he s. 10 fishing Il craft twists into
st. II also lies 81 miles east
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