The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-01-23
.azi Defense
in Belgium
CrunbIes

Spearheads or the Great Russian
march toward Berlin were report
cd In at least one sector today to
have reached the Oder River,
where the Nazis, sustaining tre'
mendous losses all along the front.
we're expected To make a supreme
bid TO halt the Red Army jugger-
naut.
Declaring the decisive hour IL
here" Moscow broadcast a warn
ing to the German people that so
vie, troops now are l50 miles from
Berlin" There stlll was no indica'
ton that the Germans were able
TO rally for stand at any point
along the eastern front.
In the west Allied planes left the
hmoldering wreckage OF more than
1000 Nazi armorcd and motor
transport vehicles cluttering the
Icy highways OF Belgium. Luxem-
bourg and western Germany az
Field Marshal Won Rundstedt. the
weather, at last against him, fled
from his collapsed Ardennes sal
lent.
Virtually Deserted
The l.. s. Third Army found the
Luxembourg half Of the salient vir-
tually deserted and resistance dis
organized as II speared ahead up
to five miles, and In Belgium. the
enemy stand before the u. 3. First
Army crumbled. North Of Aachen
the British Second Army ran into
heavy fighting In the sector north
east of Echt, where the Mails threw
In achievements.
The British. after gains Of M
&c 2 IL miles. had flattened AT
enemy salient 80 miles southwest
OF Dusseldorf on the Rhine.
Still farther north Canadian
troops drove the Germans across
the De Linge Canal IL miles
northwest OF Niimegen.
In southern Alsace severe wealth
CT and German countcrattacks
slowed the French First Army
drive from the Colmar area, but
the enemy was cleared from the
principal suburbs of Mulhous".
American troops battling In lee
and snow beat off enemy thrustS
on Kilstett, six miles north or
Strasbourg. The German radio
claimed recapture of Haguenar.
French fortress city - miles north
OF Strasbourg
Executing Pincers
The Second white Russian Army
OF Marshal Konstantin X Rikos-
sovsky. 'thrusting from the south.
and Gen. lvon d. Cherniakovsky'S
Third White Russian Army from
the east were executing a classic
pir.ccrs movement on East Prus.
sin, threatening one OF the great
est military entertainments In his
tory. Rokossovsky's troops were
headed for Ebling, Baltic port.
while Cherniakovsky's forces oN-
crwhelmed Instcrburg. the junk
ers provinces second city. and
drove toward konigsberg. its cap
itaI. Allenstein and Osterrode, q
miles beyond the Eapturel GER
man shrine OF Tannenberg, fell to
the Second White Russian Army.
Marshal Gregory X. Zhukovs
First White Russian Army, which
has driven $50 miles westward
since overrunning Warsaw six days
ago. was reported bearing down
on Poznan. last big enemy base In
west Poland. Zhukov's right wing
headed for the Polish corridor and
Danzig. A Berlin dispatch to stock
holm said that II Poznan fell. "thc
threat to Berlin will enter the acute
stage
Clamping Wise
Marshal Ivan :. koney's first
Ukraine army 10 the south. al
ready 30 miles inside Germany on
a so mile front, officially was six
TO ten miles from the Oder by last
night, and was clamping wise on
Oppeln. capital OF southern Silesis.
The Russians by last night were 50
miles from Breslau. Germanys
ninth city and capital OF Silesis.
Moscow said koney's army alone
had killed or captured 81 900 Nazis
in ten days, as the Berlin radio
begged the home front TO hold
out.
L. S. heavy bombers were over
the Reich today, after night raids
on synthetic oil plants by more
than 500 Raj Lancasters and Hall
faxes.