The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-04-23
Soviiets Take
q Districts
Around City
Russians Set Foot In CAPT
tai for First Time
In 1876 Years

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1onos Of Soviet troops swept
.,rouah the smoking ruins OF q
inner and outlying districts OF Der,
l liz yesterday. Moscow announced
1 1.s night as a Berlin report to
ctockbolm said Soviet tanks mad
burst into the center Of the DOOM
ed Nazi capital.
Setting foot in the German capt.
AL for the first time in 1875 years,
tbp Russians already had seized
one.sixth of the radio-silent capt.
tal and were reported within a
mile of the dead center of the city
at the famed intersection OF I'm
ter Den Linden and Friedrich
strasse. =,
As whole acres of the once-proud
center of Adolf Hitler's Third
Reich were churned into a smould-
ering tangle of wreckage, victory
flushed Russian troops by Moscow
cows account were within "a miles
Of a juncture with American
troops But reports from Allied
Headquarters indicated 20 miles or
less separated the Western and
Eastern Allies.
Begrined, dust-laden Russian
fighters who have fought their way
! from Moscow and Stalingrad
swarmed through Berlins streets
as $4,000 Nazi soldiers gave up one
Of historys greatest struggles and
we're roped into Red Army prls-
oner cages during five days.
By MoscoW's account since the
great offensive began a week ago
more than 945 Nazi tanks have
been destroyed or captured and
78O of the Luftwaffe's last planes
have been shot down or seized.
Smashing forward under a hail
Of fire from the heaviest concen-
tration of artillery employed in this
war, the Soviet wall of steel swept
into Berlin's northern and eastern
districts on a twisting 30-mile
front from the northwestern dis
trict of Glienicke to Wilhelms-
hagen and Friedrichshagen on the
east, Moscow revealed.
While the Soviets pushed as
much as seven miles inside the
city BY Moscow official reports,
a dispatch from the blazing CAPT
tai to the Scandinavian telegraph
bureau said the escape gap to the
west had been narrowed to nine
miles.
There was no confirmation from
the Soviet high command or fro:.1
berlms radio transmitters, but the
dispatch said the Russians had
swept beyond the southwestern
suburb of Potsdam and that 81
is not impossible that the capital
VIII be entirely encircled within
Inc next "a hours"
Inc center OF the three-quarters
encrcled capital was outflankee
Ny me capture Of Iluebars, Blank.
enlelde and Rosenthal, taken in {
seVen-mlle sweep into the city il
=, z'mlle advance from Bernau
MOSCOW revealed.
AT Rosenthal, Premier Stain.
'ahkmen were five and half mile:
T T,1 o. Of the burning city center
me STBs Berlin correspondent
s Inward Sandeberg, relaying thi
qlspa'ch through Copenhagen. sait
nus russian tank-riding tommygun
az Iao pushed down through the
y 70 Its built-up center.
. ~ an effort to bring about tn,
. . of the city for the secont
. ".ne IN the history of Russian
sa is' the Russians were said Il
T lave lunged down through debris
din seiea Reinickendorf and Wed
/ tr;a s' Two populous workers dis
"le's' to Stettiner station
81 naehlnegun battle was report
s, T raging in the depot area a
if tre Yesterday and the report
onl vu ts,.. meant the Russians wer
Tos 10y TWO blocks from Orianenbur
Tho ~, one OF the ancient gates Q
l1r In olo city, and were a mile fron
inter MI Den Linden. '-' u I'll
Red aae Soviet communique said tina
in = army AZ shock troops, lungin
tn,,' a lo,mile surge on the NORTH [
cant,,n rlllles inside the city limit
sense eu industrial, left-wing Weis
'ee' 1our miles from the Ger
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