Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 April 1945 — Page 6

| y Tanks ‘Sweep Across Elbe River

es said the enemy had nothing to oppose Pat-

Other and toucher garrisons capitulated to the American Tth army on Patton's southwestern flank.

. They surrendered the ball-bearing

factory city. of Schweinfurt after a three-day battle and the Neckar ‘valley stronghold of Heilbronn, 24 miles north of Stuttgart. Heilbronn finally was cleared after nine days of the bitterest street fighting. . Mop Up Brunswick Brunswick, 103 miles west of Berlin, was being mopped up by infantrymen of the 9th army early today, and British 2d army troops battled through the outskirts of Bremen and northeastward toward the great port of Hamburg. "But the Germans’ greatest potential disaster was shaping up swiftly in the marrowing corridor between the Elbe and Oder rivers. The 9th and 2d armored division was pounding toward the approaches to Berlin at a rate which, |

if continued, would. bring hundreds | {run around the southern end of the

ivi ad whameTSan Sanks, into thes ee A es

Germa! ans’ massed against the Red army--on; ‘the Oder. Enemy resistance was melting away Inthe path of the Berlin-| bound Yanks. The wehrmacht,! which only 10 months ago bestrode virtually all of the European con-

tinent, now appeared to be in its|" log

death throes, incapable of defending even itso wn bomb-torn capital. Four Others Race On

48d army tanks were cutting across ered | the German escape routes south of

rear of the German's Oder river de-

fenses. Simultaneously, Patton's ‘charging

Berlin against equally disorganized opposition. : American reconnaissance fliers reported sighting Patton's tanks at Halle, 77 miles south of Berlin ‘and 15 miles northwest of the big communications center of Leipzig. There, the 3d army would be barely 90 miles from a juncture wtih the

finally had cleared the aircraft center of Brunswick, left far behind in the push to the Elbe river, after a suicide stand by its Nazi garrison, * Fastest Advance

Maj. Gen! Isaac D. White's 2d armored division smashed through to the Elbé at Magdeburg at a better than four-and-a-half-mile-an-hour clip, one of the fastest advances ever made in this war,

Russians, Patton's 4th and 6th armored division, both operating under a rigid security blackout, sprinted 25 and 46 miles beyond their last reported positions 120-odd miles southwest.of Berlin, apparently headed for the Halle-Leipzig area. Military spokesmen believed the An.erican 9tn and possibly the 1st and 3d armies might link up with the Russians by Saturday. Other Armies Sweep On Elsewhere along the 400-mile Western front allied armies also chalked up néw gains against the disintegrating wehrmacht. They included: American Ist Army-—Advanced across the Thuringian plain to

within 116 miles southwest of Berlin and 49 miles from leipzig in a

ar A French 1st” Army—Adv Fon five miles to within nine miles of Baden | Baden, in the Black forest 40 miles west of Stuttgart. British 2d Army—Reported storming Bremen and advancing north-

Two railway and two highway bridges span the Elbe at Magdeburg and a fifth crosses the river at the Ruhr-Berlin super-highway, just to the north, unless, of course, they have been destroyed. There is still another bridge across the Elbe at Schonebeck, seven miles southwest of Magdeburg. The German D. N. B. agency said the Amerjeans had reached the Flbe at Schoenebeck. Except for minor lake barriers, the road to Berlin was wide open beyond Magdeburg as far as the terrain was concerned. The Germans had been expected to make a stand along the river, but the speed of the 9th army’s advance indicated that the line would be breached beyond repair before the enemy could muster effective resistance. The 2d armored division took off on its flight to the Elbe from a point south of Brunswick. After a skir-

ing steel works at Wolfenbuettel, six miles south of Brunswick, they rolled on without hardly firing a shot. . Enter Klettenberg

| east between Bremen and Hannover 50 miles or less from Hamburg. Army—-Extended | | bridgehead across Issel river in| Holland toward V-bomb coast. Together with the British 2d army, the Canadians cleared nearly half

Another Patton column entered Klettenberg, 57 miles southwest of Madgeburg and 121 miles southwest of Berlin. A third reached Kolleda, nine miles southeast of Bilzingsleben and 49 miles west qf Leipzig. The 3d armored division's push

Four more 9th army divisionsiof the German pocket between the around the southern flank of the were crowding ‘on the heels of the| Ems and Weser rivers.

2d armored division, ready to swing

A Luxembourg broadcast said Lt.

across the Elbe and break into the Gen. William Simpson's 9th army

{ Harz mountains was proceeding cau|tiously because of the possibility ‘that large forces of Germans might

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be waiting in ‘the towering heights to ambush them. ° A front dispatch said opposition from small arms and scattered Ger-

"Iman tanks was increasing.

The 11th armored division of the U. 8 3d army captured Neustadt, eight miles northwest of Coburg and 42 miles west of the Czechoslovak border, in a five-mile advance, The 4th armored division advanced 25 miles and another tank column, 46 miles, in the past 24 hours, United Press War Correspondent Robert Richards reported. Participating in the new offensive were the 4th, 6th and 11th armored and the 80th, 76th, 89th, 90th, 87th and 26th infantry divisions along a 60-mile front. The Tommies swung across the Weser river at Hoya, 19 miles southeast of Bremen, and drove nine miles east to the Aller river at Rethen, 57 miles ‘southwest of Hamburg. Other British columns were across the Aller in the V¥rden area, nine miles to the north, and 19 miles to the east, advancing rapidly within 50 miles of Hamburg.

Close on Oldenburg

On the British left flank, 2d army froops were .closing fast on the pivotal highway center of Oldenburg, a miles southwest of Bremen.

Qaptur i ian would place “EPR BT oR

North sea and 24 miles due. south

REDS IN SAVAGE FIGHT NEAR BERLIN

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Alps touted as a sanctury for the Nazi hierarchy. Soviet armor was reported far up the Danube from Vienna. A Naz commentator, Lt. Col. Alfred von Olberg, bluntly admitted that the Germans were Feireating in Austria.

Von Olberg said that stiff resistlance between the Danube and Drava in Austria ‘merely screens disengaging movements of the German formations which are falling back toward the northwest.” Two Russian armies were closing in on the last two districts of burning Vienna still in". German hands. The Leopoldstadt ecommercial district, including the 2000acre Prater amusement park, was cleared yesterday by troops who forced the Danube river canal.

20 Miles Beyond Vienna

Ernest von Hammer, German D. N. B. military commentator, reported the new Russian offensive west of Vienna. He conceded that Mar{shal Feodor I. Tolbukhin’s 3d Ukrainian army had driven 20 miles beyond the Austrian capital along the Danube valley toward Berchtesgaden. The Soviet thrust was halted temporarily, Hammer said, south of the Danube river at a point 10 miles east af the junction of St.

miles northeast of Berchtesgaden. Tolbukhin's offensive designed to cut the German route of retreat to the redoubt from | Berlin. Some 90 Gérman divisions, | possibly the last organized force

of the Oder awaiting the Soviet attack. ng ? Criss Danube. Cand. rhs | Other 3d army troops crossed the Danube river canal in northeast {Vienna and captured Leopoldstadt | with its power plant, warehouses {and factories. The Soviets reached the Ostbahn bridge: across the Danube itself, but there was no-in-dication whether they had captured it. Of Vienna's 21 districts, still in German hands were Brigittenau, also between the Danube canal and (river, and Floridsdorf, an oil re- | ining center on the east bank of

The Germans counter-attacked repeatedly in an attempt to stem the Soviet drive, but the Russians | killed 4000 of the enemy in street battles and pressed on relentlessly.

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Hos Stretch’

of the Wilhelmshaven naval base, finishing off the Ems-Weser pocket. On the -2d army's eastern flank, units of the British 6th airborne division fought into the outskirts of Celle, 20 miles northeast of Hgnnover and 125 miles west of Berlin. Canadian ‘1st army troops advanced northward through the Ems-Weser pocket parallel to the British, striking 20 miles east of the Ems river to a point fewer, than 20 miles from the Emden naval base. Unconfirmed Paris radio reports said the Canadians were -only 10 miles from the North sea. : Other Canadian forces to the west battle across the Issel river on an eight-mile front between Zutphen and Deventer, advancing almost two miles beyond the river to Wilpe. There they were 7% miles east of the Dutch railway bottleneck at Appledoorn and meeting increasingly stiff resistance.

REPORT JAPS PLAN WAR WITH RUSSIA

By UNITED PRESS The Chinese Communist wireless at Yenan said last night that the new Japanese cabinet of Premier Admiral Kantaro Suzuki would pretend conciliation toward Russia while at the same time preparing for war against the Soviet Union. mission reported by the

the Yenan pn dally... . It also declared that the cabinet, while “using all opportunities to undermine relations between the United States and the Soviet Union,” secretly would employ peace feelers “for a favorable opportunity of seeking a way to compromise.”

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SAYS OKINAWA ‘QUIET’ COMPARED TO IWO

PEARL HARBOR, April 12 (U.| P).—Ensign Jane Kendeigh, Ober- | lin, O., pretty, 23-year-old navy flight nurse who was the first American woman to land on both Okinawa and Iwo Jima, said to-| day that her arrival at Okinawa, was “quiet” compared to Iwo. | “We had to circle Iwo. for more than an hour, until an air battle subsided, before landing,” she said. Miss Kendeigh, a veteran of 13 months in the navy, is en route to California on the last leg of a flight | from Guam with a plane-load of wounded.

BARUCH VISITS FRONT LONDON, April 12 (U. P.).—Bernard Baruch, economic adviser to President Roosevelt, was back in| London today after a visit to the Western front to see America’s “great war machine”

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