Evening star., 1945-04-16
Americans Lose One
EIbe Bridgeheod,
Deepen Another
By the Associated Press.

PARIS, Aprll l0.-1lle Alllell
can Sd Army today drove Wlthll
7 miles of Czechoslovakia agains
the enemy's western front which
already has been split into tW(
commands.
The Germans pulled troops from
Berlin and tanks from the Russian
front to counter the grave peril u
their capital. As miles from neareS
9th Army troops They erased ont
9th Army brldgehead over the Elbt
at Magdeburg. but 1t. Gen. Wllllan
H. Simpsons men deepened sec
ond crossing to 5 miles within D.
miles of the capital on the opeI
Brandenburg PLAIN.
Germany was all but split IN tWc
by 1t. Gen. George S. Patton S SO
Army, which captured Hot 'popula-
ton: 10000, a road center neal
the Czech border and 76 miles from
the Skoda munitions works In Pllsen
Yanks s Miles From Nuremberg.
Farther south. the American 7th
ARMY beat with five divisions tC
within 8 miles of the Nazl cltade
of Nuremberg (43l 000) and the
French advanced on the upper
Rhine Plain and into the BLACK
Forest.
Germans in the eastern segment
of the severed Ruhr death pocket
surrendered this morning to the
American 1st Army OF 1t. Gen
Courtney H. Hodges. Hundreds
gave up without struggle. JOINING
the l43.349 already captured IN the
great industrial sector.
The western front no longer eX-
listed as such in the enemy organl-
rational setup. Field Marshal Ernest
Busch was placed in charge of the
northern front guarding Berlin from
both the Americans and Russians
Field Marshal Albert kesSelrlng
probably was given command of the
southern front.
Even while the Ruhr pocket was
being cut in two, the Poles ana Ca
nadians formed new pocket IN the
north by plunging to the SHORES OF
the North Sea and within miles OF
the naval base of Emden.
100000 Nazis in Trap.
Perhaps 100000 Germans are
caught west of the corridor to the
North Sea. More than $4,000 Ger
mans surrendered in the first IA
davs of April. Some 87,779 streamed
to prison cages Saturday and o7,lo'
we're captured the day before.
Great and important cities fel
Among these were Wuppertal (39o.
OoO) in the Ruhr, Germany loth
largest city. Hagen 15l,o70) aIsc
fell. The Wagnerian music festival
CITY of Bayreuth al ,000', the com
munications center Of Bamberg '5I,-
OOo) which is linked by canal tc
the Danube, the huge synthetic Oh
center of Leuna were among othel
prizes.
The Dutch cities of Leeuwarder
,53.53D and Zwolle abba and ltS
iron foundries were seized. Neu'
stadt and Stendal fell.
The great cities of Leipzig, Bre'
men, Chemnitz. Halle and Dessal
I'll were besieged. Fighting pro,
oressed inside Magdeburg, Greenln-
cen. Apeldoorn, Uelzen and Royar
the latter entered by Gen. jacques
!e Clerc's famous End Armored DlVl'
ion which was attempting to cleal
'et, and I hf
waterfront of Bordeaux to sea traf-
lic.
Three Miles From Chemnitz.
Gen. Pattons troops were within
3 miles west and northwest of the
big SaXony center OF Chemnlti
,334.563' and within 81 miles OF the
Czechoslovak capital of Prague.
The French were miles or les!
from Stuttgart (460000). The Brit.
lsh passed the Aller River to within
AZ miles of outflanked Hamburg
Il l.682,O ,O00), Germany's largest por
and second city. Plauen, the bis
Saxony road center near the Czecho'
Slovak border. was menaced by Sc
Army troops less than dozen mile!
away.
The famous End Armored (hel
IN wheels Division suffered severe
casualties in it's retreat from thu
original bridgehead on the Elbe
However, the disposition was to con
ider the reverse as only temporary
The 9th and 1st Armies had closet
ilp to thai last river before Berlin
On a front of about $50 miles a
he river winds.
At supreme Allied headquarters 1
-vas said that the Nazi effort on tn
Ilbe had come too late.
Third Army troops we're but 7
niles or so from Russian lines acros
he pinched waist of East-Centra
Germany, and were less than 8
niles from the Saxony capital o
Dresden.
The German shift in comman'
anticipated an imminent junction
of the armies of Gen. Eisenhowe
and those of Premier Stain.
Abundance of Rumors.
Rumors in abundance f1owe'
from the German radio, none
them substantiated. Among thes
we're assertions that Allied patrol
had reached the western outskirt
of Berlin and Dresden, that 3r
Army troops were storming Chem
nitz and that a junction with tn
Russians was imminent-probabl
the nearest approach to the truth
Marshal Busch, 60, now reporte
In charge of German armies in tn
north, has been unemployed sine
the Russians vanquished his centra
ra.,~ additional mon from,