The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-09
Berlin Fight Resumes Fury
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Russians at one time may have held almost all of Kuestrtn and even at present were in the center of the city.
 Other Soviet forces were in north- eastern Kuestrin, Won Hammer said. numerous planes were said to pc supporting the Red Army attacks.
 Though Nazi broadcasts remained silent on developments elsewhere along the Berlin front, MoScows re- Dort that the whole Oder-Neisse line was 'aflame" pointed to attacks all the way from Stettin to the Sude- ten foothills.
 The main thrust obviously was being aimed at Berlin from the Kuestrin and Frankfurt areas due east of the capital, but the flanking drives toward Stettin in the north and Dreden in the South may prove euually decisive in the final ac- counting.
 Nazi reports yesterday said the Russians had driven west to Seelow, 10 miles beyond the Oder and only 26 miles east of Berlin, only to pc thrown back seven miles to Hath- stock. three miles west of the Oder.
 Moscow dispatches said the first and second White Russian armies have seized roughly two thirds of Germany,s Baltic coast cast ot Stettin Bay and mopped up nine tenths of German Pomerania.
 Soviet bombers were reported pulverizing river crossings in the Stettin area in conjunction with Red Army artillery on an around the-clock basis. The Oder estuary and Stettin lagoon were cioggeo with sunken enemy ferryboatS load. ed with tanks, motor vehicles ana troops.
 (A Paris broadcast said Soviet troops had occupied the airfield of Stettin and have reached the edge of the city" The broadcast was reported by the FCC) A German Transocean broad Said Marshal Gregory K. Zkukovs crack first White Russian army hao crossed the Oder river and broken into the west bank portion of ku- estrin between the suburbs or Cor gast and Kietz.
 Except for a small penetration the southern part of Kietz," Trans ocean said, the defenders of the fortress denied the enemy any ap- preciable success"
 Kuestrin Assaulted
 Other powerful waves of Soviet troops were assaulting Kuestrlh from the north, east and south, with particularly strong attacks" in the east-bank suburb of Warnick, Trans ocean said.
 Russian shells fall screamnigly into the city and bombs from Rus sian bombers crash into the streets and buildings" Transocean said Several parts of the city are shrouded in smoke and flames as re- suit of the intense smelling.
 Transocean disclosed that the commander of the KueStrin garrl- son was a Lieut.. Gen. Heinefarth' who lis known for his suppression of the Polish revolt in Warsaw III the fall of 1914"
 The Germans made no further mention of fierce battles raging far- ther south along the west bank oi the Oder. where the First Army ap- parently was attempting to break out of it's bridgeheads for a surge toward Berlin.
 Nazi reports yesterday salo the Russians had driven west to See low, 10 miles beyond the Oder and 26 miles east of Berlin, only to be thrown back seven miles to Ratn- stock, three miles west Of the Ooer'
 Moscow dispatches telling of at tacks on the outskirts of Stettin ana Danzig followed advances to With in six and II miles respectively or the two ports yesterday.
 ZhuKovs Baltic forces toppled Luebzin, six miles northeast oi Stettin, in 8 six-mile advance yes- terday. Luebzin lies on the east side of 2 l-2 mile wide Dammscher See, inner roadstead of Danzig habor.
 Kolok, seven miles southeast o1 Stettin and Augustwalde, four miles east of Stettin's east bank suburb of Altdamm, also were captured. Berlin said the Russians had en- tered Altdamm. four miles across the Oder Estuary from Stettin.
 Far to the east, Moscow dis patches said, Marshal Konstantin K Rokossovsky sent three columns of armor and motorized infantry from his Second White Russian Army smashing to within five to 10 miles of by-passed Danzig city from the west. east and south.
 The closest approach to Danzg reported by the Soviet high com mand was Stangenwalde, II miles southwest on the Danzig -Stettin super-highway Stangenwalde, 2l miles houth west of the Polish port of Gdynia, was captured yesterday.
 The advance already had carried inside the former Danzig free stage.
 Cossacks Busy
 Cossack cavalry sweeping along both sides of the Vistula were hack ing numerous isolated enemy pock- cts to pieces in the dense network of irrigation canals athwart the approaches to Danzig.
 A front dispatch to the Soviet newspaper Pravda said the weather was changing as. often as 10 times a day on the Danzig front, alternat- ing between snow. frost and thaw.
 The Soviet air force was support ing the drive, battering naval in- stalaltions and bounding scores of German transports in Danzig wa ters. Heavy artillery already has set the heart of the city afire.