The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-12
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CContinued from Page D virtually conquered Vienna. an- other Red Army push was aimed at Berchtesgaden and the Bavaiian Alps touted as a sanctuary for the Nad hierarchy.
 Soviet armor was reported far up the Danube from Vienna and Nazi commentator. It. Col. Alfred Won Olberg, bluntly admitted that the Germans were retreating in Austria.
 Won Olberg said that stiff resist ance between the Danube and Dra- va in Austria merely screens dis engaging movements of the Ger man formations which afe falling back toward the northwest"
 Amusement Park Cleared
 Two Russian armies were closing in on the last two districts of burn- ing Vienna still in German hands. The Leopoldstadt commercial dis trict. including the 2,000-acre Prater amusement park, was cleared yes- terday by troops who forced the Danube river canal.
 Ernst von Hammer, German DINE military commentator, reported the new Russian offensive west Of Vienna. He conceded that Marshal Feodor l. Tolbukhin's Third Uk- rainian Army had driven 20 miles beyond the Austrian capital along the Danube valley toward Hitler's Alpine redoubt around Berchtes- gaden.
 The Soviet thrust was halted tenn porarily, Hammer said, south of the Danube river at a point 10 miles east of the junction of St. Poelten, 75 miles from Linz and 145 miles northeast of Berchtesgaden.
 Tolbukhin's offensive appeared designed to cut the German route of retreat to the redoubt from Ber- lin. Some 90 German divisions, possibly the last organized force still available in Germany, was tied down on the Berlin front west of the Oder awaiting the Soviet att tack.
 Other Third Army troops crossed the Danube river canal in northeast Vienna and captured Leopoldstadt with its power plant, warehouses and factories. The Soviets reached the Ostbahn bridge across the Dan- ube itself, but there was no indi- cation whether they had captured it.
 Of Vienna's 21 district, still in German hands were Brigittenau, also between the Danube canal and river, and Floridsdorf, an oil refin- ing center on the east bank of the Danube.
 The Germans counter-attacked repeatedly in an attempt to stem the Soviet drive, but the Russians killed 4,000 of the enemy in street battles and pressed on relentlessly.
 German broadcasts said Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's Second Ukrainian Army, closing in from the east, had entered the Lobau island section of Floridsdorf, thus , narrowing the. Na1 escape gap out of Vienna to eight miles. Izvestia said Vienna was in flames from German demolitions. The Germans blew up museums and l lIlUIluIllCLlLO anu 4CAO uCldyCO dNUAOAA bombs planted about the city, the newspaper reported.
 Northeast of Vienna, .Malinovsky's Second Army extended its bridge head across the Morava river to 20 miles with Six-mile advance along , the west bank. Duernkrut, 16 miles south of the Moravian border, was captured.
 Spannberg Swept Up , Spannberg, 49 miles south of the Moravian industrial center of Brno, also was swept up in the advance. Berlin said the Second Army had made new crossing of the Morava river 19 miles north of Duernkrut i, and invaded Moravia at point 31 miles from Brno.
 Farter northeast, the Second Army linked up with Gen. Andrei Y. Yeremenko's Fourth Ukrainian Army and pushed on along the Orav river valley of northern SloVakia.