The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-30
Soviiets Push
To 43 Miles
From Vienna
Austrian Radio Calls On
Border Populace To
Resist Drive

LONDON, Friday, March Bop
-Rampa ging Red Army columns,
plunging within 43 miles of Vienna
reached the Austrian frontier yes
terday in a 20-nile dash across
western Hungary, uprooted tire,
of the Austrian capitals outer for
tresses and slashed across a vita
German supply line to Italy.
Out thanking Nazi defenses basee
on the Bradshaw gap and the Neu
siedler See (Sea of Vienna) south
east Of the Danube city, Russian
armo,ed forces captured the Dor
der town Of Koszeg, So miles south
Of Vienna's city limits, and toppleo
the key Hungarian rail city q
Szcmbathely.
The free Austrian radio said
without confirmation from the So.
viev high command that Marshal
Feodor l. Tolbukhin's Third UK.
Ian Army spearheads already
had invaded Austria, gateway tc
Adolf Hitler's southern mountain
fortress.
The Austrian broadcast said the
Russians had swept into Burgen-
land province and occupied several
villages, and called on the Aus.
tran freedom a.ont to rise IN
arms The reported Russian surge
across the frontier was the first
time that a iberating army had
set foot on Austrian soil since that
country was annexed to Hitler S
greater Germany by the Nazi-en.
forced anschluss of March, 1888.
The Red Army's breakthrough to
the Austrian border in an advance
that also Won the fortified Hun
garian town of Kapuvar, 43 miles
southeast of Vienna and 38 miles
south of the outflanked Slovak cap
ltal of Bradshaw, was announced
in an order of the day issued by
Marshal Stain.
In a second victory announce
ment, the Soviet Premier revealed
that Marshal Alexander M. Vast.
levskys Third White Russian Ar.
my had completed the liquidation
of the coastal pocket in East Prus.
STA southwest of still embattled Ko-
enigsberg. More than 100000 enc
my troops were killed or captured
in Is days of battle, Stain said.
In another huge one-day bag,
Marshal Konstantine K. Rokossov-
sky's Second White Russian Army
captured 500 German troops as
the Russians battered deeper into
the eastern half of Danzig and wip-
ed out number of coastal pockets
along Danzig bay north of cap
tured Gdynia.
The Germans, preparing to aban-
don Danzig, admitted that the last
German defenders were clinging
only to the area of the old fortress
and said that the great ports har-
Dor installations had been com
pletely destroyed"
As radio Luxembourg said a
state of emergency had been pro-
claimed in Vienna, second city OF
the greater Reich with a pre-War
population of / ,O39, 900, Moscow and
Berlin reports said An avalanche
of Russian tanks, mobile guns and
motorized infantry from two ar
mics were plunging toward the city
through broken enemy lines on
both the north and south banks
OF the Danube.
On the rivers north bank, Ber-
lin said that the northern wing
OF Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky' S
Second Ukrainian Army had lung
ed II to Is miles west of the Hron
river and had attempted to cross
the Mira river at points AZ to 81
miles east of Bradshaw in a pow
erful offensive as yet uncqnfirmed
by Moscow.
AS these forces drove toward
the Bratislava gap, the Danube Bal
ley between Bradshaw city and
the northern shores of Newsletter
See, Tolbukhin's army on the south
bank of the Danube advanced
across Hungary on 11S-mile front
swept up more than 100 villages
and took 1900 prisoners.
His troops drove to within LAC
niles of the Italian border and
% miles east of the Austrian noun.
tain city of Graz. While spearheads
pushed to within 20 miles of Yugo'
slavia by taking Szombathely, 9th.
ers at the southern end of the
front captured Rezi, six miles north
of the southwestern tip of Lake
Balaton.