The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-28
New RedPush
Sets Trap For
DanziigForces
,OO German Communities
CAPTURED In Russian
Baltic Sweep

LONDON, Feb. d. GA 4
,,;,e smash through the German
lines in Pomerania carried the
Second White Russian Army today
within o miles of pocketing the en-.
emv forces in Danzig, the north
Polish Corridor and East Pomer-
snia Moscow announced tonight.
The peterborough, which began
. four days ago, was disclosed by
Premier Stain in an order OF the
dav and the subsequent regular
Soviet communicate broadcast
from Moscow credited Marshal
Rokossovsky's troops with captur-
Ing more than 100 German COM
nunities in their continuing north
ward sweep towards the Baltic.
Except for the capture OF Y adj
ditional blocks inside besieged
Ereslau in Silesia and the seizure
Of seven villages in Czechoslova-
ha, the brief Russian communi-
que dealt entirely with Marshal
Rokossovsky's significant often
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The German High Command
acknowledged the gains, and Ger
man bfoadcasters said the Russi-
ans already were fighting on the
approaches to Koeslin, through
which run the last highway and
railroad along which the Nazis in
the northeast could retreat.
By both German and Russian Of
fetal accounts, however, the far
thest point OF Rokossovsky's ad.
vance came with the capture OF
Bublitz, % miles southeast OF
Koeslin and % miles from the Bal
tic Sea.
The Germans stated that IN e
drive was aimed at slicing off the
Danzig and Gdynia territories
Their defense forces confronted
imminent entrapment identical tc
that in which the Nazis in south
west Latvia and East Prussia long
have writhed.
German Commentator Ernst Won
Hammer said the great Soviet of.
fensive was aimed at taking Koes
In, Kolberg, Stolp and Neustettin
and that the Russians carried or
ders to cut all communications be-
tween Danzig and the great Baltic
port of Stettin.
Neustettin, stubborn German de-
4ehsiVe center, was in danger of
being surrounded, with the Russi-
ans already holding great arc
around it from Gross Eprn, II
miles southwest, to Bublitz, Is
miles northwest.
Besides Bublitz, Stains order
A".'ouliceo capture OF the strong
POINTS OF Baldenburg, Schlochau,
o'esers and Hammerstein All on
he routes leading northwest to-
ward the Baltic.
Marshal Rokossovsky's forces
uls We're moving rapidly up close
l,a ,ne right flank of Marshal Zhu-
n1. FIRST White Russian Army
n m'neh has been prosecuting tn e
'Ao W. direct drive on Berlin.
,b .oseoW news dispatches said
on .a. Anuhov's right flank also was
s.. .ne move toward the Baltic and
thsi t 'ne Germans were hurting in
tsr, OWL reserves in desperate at
Dan gis 70 o, keep open the route TO
W." s' The Germans said Zhukov
cure N Ei toward Stettin to Sc
frns e MS flank for an Ultimate
c ca drive on Berlin.
tba oeeman broadcasters said that
sjdes second &C. White Russians, be-
b S.usS the advance in Pomerania.
Cr H ofoken into the fortress OF
poI Ga1laaz' behind the lines in the
Of na Corridor and IS miles south
was Da al and that street fighting
"ss IN progress.
Bresl ppoFn fighting continued for
msn '' s another surrounded Ger.
Armr ifelfess, on the First Ukraine
Thy front in silesia.
new y, army, under Marshal Ko.
rver d h mad crossed the Nelsse
Cern,s osrrler at several points, the
tensa .-d ,ns SAID, but claimed the de.
sisns later had repusled the Rus.
said G ha military spokesman
WORTH however, that no fighting
wbs :. mentioning took place. any
traa4 except on the Pomeraniar