The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-21
British Push
Against Last
HamburgLine
Union of Russian and u. S.
Forces To Come With.
in a Few Days

PARIS, Saturday, April 31.--R
Three Allies armies raced as
much as % miles south yesterday
toward Hitler's redoubt in Ba-
varia, captured Nuremberg and
reached within 80 miles Of Lake
Constance, western bulwark Of the
probable last-stand Nazi position
deep in the Alps.
With the British battering a
mile from the suburbs of Ham
burg, Germany's second greatest
city, and with peace riots reported
raging in Berlin and Munich, Hit
Ter passed silently through his 56th
and blacklist birthday. But worse
was in store.
Supreme Headquarters declared
fatty that the union of the West
ern Allies and the Red Armies
would come in the next few days.
Gen. Eisenhower declared in an
order of the day that German ar
mics of the west were lettering
on the threshold of defeat
Three great American armies,
the U. S. Ninth, First and Third,
were coiled and ready to strike
along the Elbe where by German
account the Americans and Russi.
ans were but 81 miles apart.
The Germans predicted that
soon the Ninth Army would rn-
cork a power punch at Berlin from
it's bridgehead on the Elbe 81
miles away, concerning its blows
with those of the Russians now
at the eastern gates of the Ger.
man capital.
Allied bombers loosed destruc.
ton on German defenses north.
west, west, and southwest of Ber-
lin along the route the Allies from
the west would have to take to
reach the capital. They struck
both by day and by night.
The fall of the Nazi party city
Of Nuremberg released elements of
two armored and three infantry
divisions for the southwark push
that was driving a steel wedge
between the Germans Alpine re.
treat and Czechoslovakia' arse.
nails. The Seventh Army was less
than 70 miles from Munich and
the French were but IS miles
from the Austrian frontier.
Germany not only was losing
control of her great ports-Brem-
en- was cut off from three sides
with only roads to the North Sea
open-but she was losing her grip
on those of France which she long
had blockaded.
The French announced that the
big Atlantic port of Bordeaux now
was open with all effective resist
ance wiped from both sides OF the
Gironde river approaches to the
city.
From Supreme Headquarters
went a sensational broadcast to
Russian and Polish slave laborers
in the Reich to stay where they
were for Sin a few days the gap
between the armies of liberation
from the west and from the east
will be closed"
A battle dispatch declared the
Germans no longer manned co..
hesive Western Front, that the en-.
envy was broken into pockets for
the victory assault and the last
stand in the north also was under
attack.
The British Second Army bat.
tied mile from the suburbs Of
Germany's second city and great
est port of Hamburg, and sheared
it off from Bremen with 2O-mile
outflanking sweep against the lat
ter river port.
The report Of peace demonstra.
tons came from the Allied-con.
trolled Luxembourg radio, which
said without confirmation else.
where that red flags waved in the
ruined capital of the Reich.
Eishenhower's statement that
the Germans were at the brink
of defeat in the west came in an
order Of the day in which he CALI
ed the great Allied victory in the
Ruhr a fitting prelude to the final
drive to crush what is left Of
the German army, once the terror
Of all Europe.
The Germans said the U. 3.
Ninth Army, steadily Fostering it,
five-mile deep Elbe river bridge
head 50 miles southwest of Der.
lin, was about to join the Rus.
slams in the grand assault on the
flaming capital.
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