The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-29

were repulsed.
 A German communique said a German attack from the western part of isloated East Prus8la against the flank of the Soviet barricade to he Baltic reached to the area ot PreusSisch Holland, Is miles South- east of Elbing.
 Roads from encircled Poznan west to Brandenpurg are now filled tanks, self-propelling guns and in- fantry streaming toward Germany, meeting only thousands of Poles liberated from concentration camps and returning home" one dispatch said.
 "T'he hour is near when the hur- ricane from the east will reach Ber- lin," radio Moscow said.
 Pnlewy Falls
 PnieWy, 23 miles west Of Poznan and 109 miles east of Berlin, fell yesterday to Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's First White Russian Army columns moving west along the WarSaW-Berlin super-highWay.
 Rolling up the northern end of the 2OO-mile arc menacing Berlin, the Second White Russian Army reach ed the Nazi border 125 miles north east of the capital and captured Wronki, only 89 miles southeast of Stettin, in a drive toward the Bal tic that threatened to slice off Dan- zig and northeastern Pomerania.
 The First Ukrainian army, on the southern flank, hammered through the suburbs of Breslau and captured Guhrau, 41 miles to the northwest and 134 miles southeast of Berlin.
 Moscow dispatches confirmed Ber- lin reports that the Soviets had seized small bridegheads across the Oder river north and south of Byrn- ing Breslau, but indicated they were not yet large or strong enough to pose definite threat to the Sile- sian capital
 Elsewhere along the vast 800-mile eastern front, the Soviets marked the 17th day of their winter offen- sive yesterday by:
 l. Clearing Upper or Southern Si lesia, source of two fifths of Ger many's coal, four-fifths of her zinc and one-half her lead. Hundreds of arms factories, foundries, chemical works and other war plants, in addi- tion to coal mines, were captured - a body blow to the Nazi war effort.
 2. Extending their hold on the east bank of the Oder river, Ger many's primary defense line in the east, to l40 miles.
 5. Driving to within three and a half miles of Konigsberg, capital of encircled East Prussia. Berlin con- ceded that the Soviets had reached the "built-up area" of Konigsberg to which the Germans were apply ing the torch in pursuit of theii scorched earth policy.
 4. Capturing the encircled BaltiC port of Memel after three month siege
 Stockholm dispatches quoted thu Cologne newspaper Kolnische Zeit ung, as warning the German people that the next eight days will de eide the war"
 A neutral diplomat who had jus arrived in Stockholm from Berlr told the London Daily Mail tha everyone he knew was "convincet that the end is very near" whil, the London Daily Herald reported from Basic that evacuated Berlir mo longer can be considered tn, capital of Germany"
 Radio Moscow renewed it's appea to the German people to rise agains Hitler and told them that the Rec Army was sweeping away all ob stacles in it's path to Berlin
 Nothing can and nothing vii stop them" Moscow said. Only b, rising against the Hitler regime cal you save yourselves from fina destruction"
 Zhukov's First White Russian Army, setting the pace for the "Oi to Berlin" offensive, drove within 72 miles of Frankfurt on the order last big German stronghold befor Berlin itself, in it's push along tn Warsaw Berlin highway t. Pniewy
 Another First Army column cap tured Opalencia. TT miles iron Frankfurt and IF miles from Ser lin, in companion advance alon } the Warsaw Berlin railway to with 1 ir, O1 V,afiae aF fI,o ra~o V1 I'd n,, t,,,t