The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-11
Reds She'll Stettin,
Move Toward Danzig
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in three miles southeast of Alt
damn, Oder river crossing town
two miles from Stettins great ship
basins, with the capture Of Franz
hansen. The village of Klebow, six
miles southwest of Altdamm and
about the same distance south of
Stettin, also was taken.
Smelling City
Gaining this high ground oppo-
site the Pomeranian capital the
Russians were reported in front
dispatches relayed through Mos
COW to have begun Smelling Stettin
itself.
The northern wing of Marshal G.
K. Zhukov's First White Russian
Army captured 1000 more prison
ers, the Soviet communicate said,
and a dispatch said that Red army
spearheads had broken into the
streets of Altdamm.
The attack toward Stettin was a
slow smuggling match between hum
dreds of tanks, but far to the north
east Marshal K. K. Rokossovsky' S
Second White Russian Army forces
were making gigantic strides in
narrowing the Baltic trip where
thousands of Germans are pinned
in the northeastern tip of Pom
erania and the adjacent Gdyn:a-
Danzig sectors.
Advancing up to II miles in "a
hours these troops overran more
than 300 towns and villages and
squeezed the Germans into L.
750-squaremile pocket. The gains
were so swift that it was indicat-
ed the Germans. We're retreating
into the close-knit defenses around
Gdynia and DanZig, important
NaZi naval bases.
Lauenburg Falls
Premier Stain in an order OF
the day announced the fall OF
Lauenburg, last big northeastern
German stronghold in Pomerania.
This 10-way junction town is 80
miles west of Gdynia, former Po-
lish naval base, and IS miles north
west of Danzig city.
The Russians also seized Landi.
chow, seven miles north OF Lau-
enburg, and string of villages
stretching 10 miles west to the
Baltic coastal town of Schmolsin.
Fourteen miles southeast Of Lau-
enburg, which is on the main Stet-
tin-Gdynia-Danzig railway, the
Russians overran Sierakowitz.
Thirteen miles east of the latter
point they toppled Kartuzy, an
important road center only IS miles
west of Danzig and II miles south
west of Gdynia.
In their course through Kartuzy
(Karthaus), it appeared that the
Russians were striking toward the
Baltic coast between Gdynia and
Danzig in an effort to split the
Nazi pocket into two more vulner-
able sectors.
A late Moscow dispatch said that
Soviet troops which on Friday had
captured Rheinfeld, nine miles
southwest of Danzig, had broken
into the suburbs of the once free
city and were bringing up Red
artillery to shell the Baltic port.
Twelve miles south of Danzig
the Russians captured Gross
golmkau, outflanking the big rail
junction of Tczew, on the west
bank of the Vistula river. Tczew
itself was threatened with early
capture by Russian seizures Of
Dolwin, six miles on the north
west, and Baldau, two miles on
the south.
In the new drive into Danzig
territory on the southeast the Rus
slams captured 10 localities on a
22-rnile front beyond Marienburg
and Elbing, fallen East Prussian
strongholds.
These included Junger. on the
western end of the Frisches Half
Gagoon, eight miles northeast of
Elbing; the rail and road center
of Tiegenhof, five miles to the
southwest; nearby Ladekopp, II
miles southeast of Danzig; and
other points stretching down to
Gross-Montau, on the east bank
Of the Vistula six miles southeast
Of TcZeW.
Russian heavy bombers on Fri
day night set fires in both DanZiq
and Koenigsberg, besieged East
Prussian capital. the communicate