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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES, _« . ~ ° ra FRIDAY, "APRIL 20, 1945 tured in Leipzig during the last 24 [hires the American rear aréas. At| advanced six miles eastward to reaching the H amm hours, swelling to 27,627 the number least 650 Germans were captured.|reach a point 11 miles northeast of [miles Rito of om SAYS GERMANS KNEW

of enemy prisoners taken in the| The luftwaffe continued its ha-|Grafenwoehr and “only 60 . milés| Stil farther to the north THEY

week-long battle for the city. rassing attacks against the Oth!/from Pilsen. Patton's men were battling eat | Two Nazi generals also fell into|army bridgehead across the EIbe| Three other 3d army infantry di-|through the western and southAmerican hands, along with the river southeast of Magdeburg, glv-|yisions also were moving on the|Western outskirts of Chemnitz, bare- | ‘TWELFTH ARMY G ROUP 1000' anti-aircraft guns that only a|the lle to German propaganda|cgechoslovak border in force along|ly 70 miles from a juncture with| HEADQUARTERS, April 20 (U. P.). month ago had made Leipzig the Claims that the Americans had 5 go.mile front north and north. the Red army. : | —Mantred Zapp, German propaNoatoberg | in er Ros Affer toughest bombing target in the!been driven back to the west bank. east of Grafenwoehr. Elements of| An estimated- 25000 prisoners; gandist and 10rrrier chief of the in the southeastern wing of Berlin's jeaping sheets of flame weve in . Reich. Field dispatches sald the Nazis (the 90th division were four mies Were takEm*by the 3d army. yester- German Transocean-News Serv outer defenses. It said the Russians plain sight of "tlie ' Russian . siege] > ‘Savagé Battle. » Another strong Germat force | Were floating Heavy. mines down the | or more inside the Czech frontier.|day, but most of them were|in the United: States, ee 4 crashed through south’ of Cottbus, forces chopping through the maze came to grief farther porth on the | Elbe in an attempt to “Wreck the | They: were closing fat on Asch, 9g | Wounded Germans captured when| German people knew th a d 53 miles from Berlin, and broke into! of defenses v (Continued From Page One) U. S. 9th army front where a bridges. -|miles west of Prague. the Americans overran a number of | feated when the allies a Jeu Calau, 48 miles south of the capital ’ {Americans rallled to break up-a!' Hundreds of American heavy | Doughboys of the 26th division— | ®PemY hospitals, | Rhine. Vetschau, five miles northeast of strong enemy counter-attack bombers and fighters pourided the | clearing the ‘11th armored northern | Elsewhere on the western fron: | “I myself realized Germany wa Calau, also»was reached. against their northern flank. (German lines on the roads to|flank—hammered out gains of six to | 11¢ British 2d army drove with- defeated when America ty the Nazi Command Gloomy The Germans hurled a panzer|Munich and eastward across 14 miles against moderate opposi- in’ four miles of Hamburg's south-|war,” Zapp said, The Nazi command claimed that and an-infantry division into the| Czechoslovakia to the Prague area. ition, reaching Trostau, Fichtellberg, |" suburbs and about seven miles| He spoke voluntarily to American fn the Goerlitz-Bautzen-Weisse-- American flank some 35 miles| It Gen. George S. Patton's U.|and Kirchlainbach, in an are ex. S0Uth Of the seaport proper. -Other officers and correspondents. Zapp Wasser penetration south of Cottbus northeast of Brunswick yesterday,S. 3d army broke lose on a new tending from 10 miles southeast. to | Bish tank and infantry forces was captured at Bad Berka, just the Russians were checked, byt in what appeared to be a full-scale armored - sweep to. cut off the 17 miles northeast of Bayreuth. jreucned the Elbe river on a 15- south of Weimar on April 15. acknowledged heavy Russian at- bid to cut across the 9th army front enemy's last escape roads through| The 90th division was meeting | mile front to the southeast and| He said German resistance cone Son itwer cide of Sprembes and reach the Harz mountains, 60- | Czechoslovakia. | considerably stiffer resistance along | | battied for a crossing less than 120 tinued today because of the effece The German high command's ac- odd miles to the south. | Patton's -11th armored division the Czechoslovak border farther to Milles Citi est ol Ses | tiveness of Nazi propaganda and the count of the battle before Berlin Front dispatches sald the Ger- jumped off from the Bayreuth sec-|the north. Field dispatches indi-| AUSTRALIA TO ore UeBlind it. unk thiap mans drove as far as 15 miles into'tor 40-odd miles northeast . ot P ei BACK U. §, sie emia was heavy with gloom. On either] the Rioets’ ores aren. but east . ol cated the Nazis were making their| NEW YORK, April 20. (U. P.).— HINT BATTLESHIP CAPTURED side of Frankfurt, it said, he “gal- ‘scattered by a strong rer Jul oNt od raced 16 miles | major stand in the-Asch-seetor.—~{ Dr.— Herbert ~V. Evatt, Australian LONDON, April 20 (0. PJ) —Brite Jantly fighting German divisions counter-blow this morning, : i rh Bi Bmp Units of the 90th gained four to | minister of external affairs, indi- ish naval authorities believe that AL 1850 TCPBIIC the enemy forte | ond 85 nes ee Rie oe early today, entering the [cated today that Australia would [the German pocket battleship, an border town of Selb, 3% | back any decision the United States Gneisenau, and the cruiser Seidlitz

~ scored full defensive £ICCOSSeS,” But on the vital Mucheberg -| ‘had “split up int I ! 50 gh men fo small grou of Skoda arms center of Pilsen. miles west of Asch, Ober Roslau,| makes for ultimate control of cen- have been captured by the Russian ry Ing to Another 11th armored column three’ miles farther south, and tral Pacific islands. 'it was_learned today. S

Wriezen where the {rontal) assault against Berlin was beir iol Wal 2) oh. arm. pushed, the Ge rman s admitted the co etecaam aa Russians had anced. h command said army reached the area M berg, s south berg, Buchholz, farther southwest To of advances to Hangelsberg Strausberg superseded the commu ical" troops on Mi: nigue. the Philippines drove unopposed to The Wreizen wing of Berlip’s {within 80 miles of the big port: of fenses also had fallen back. The Davao. The drive, moving a mile Negi commal ud sald } Iready has secured a 400s pushed to: Sternt * beachhead on . Moro en miles southwe f W “ and Protzel,. two and : l southwest of Sternbeck.

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Russians 7 Miles From Berlin, HITLER SHRINE Smash Into City’s Defenses CITY CAPTURED

had been burning the last few daygs..* The columns of smoke and

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about a secon Robert A. Taft Truman yester accompanied b colleagues. + Other Republ call was Taft's know what he Taft would say “Well, there there (Wednes appointment tc to him about*sc ought-“to--be legislative, just The pledges Mr, Truman a He assured th conference that congress all the Pledg This assuran Senate Democr! Barkley (Ky.) ° tacularly with the late Presi vetoing a tax up almost imn was left, The Demo pledged its sup) ident in war an reported there past difference: House. and con relegated to the House mem! scribed to Bar There was | credit Democrs man Robert E hand in the m all for harmon which has nc existed betweer ative Democra velt's branch o But the prin to the new. Pr to the reputati 11 years in the ing in now record. One of heard remarks “Harry is one

swarms of inf fantrymen poured in

Vrs Within 3 to finish off the trapped enemy.

Far to the northeast, the U. S. Miles of Naha 1st army wiped out a similar stubborn pocket inthe center of captured Leipzig. - A band of 150 Nazi elite guards, who had’ been firing ships, one cruiser and five destroy« sporadically from the shelter of the ers. | Napoleonic monument for: more Adm. . Chester W. Nimitz an-i than 12 hours after the rest of the nounced that the Japanese defend- garrison quit, surrendering at 1:30 ers on nearby Ie island had been o'clock this morning. . Sih compressed into a 'small pocket and! With. them were 19 Americans, {that American observation planes. including two. war —corgespoiidents: ready were using the island's air- Who had been captured earlier in trip. the, battle. The war correspondents Marines “on northern Okinawa ere not identified immediately tinued mopping up ‘enemy rem-! Almost 6000 Germans were: capants on Motobu island ny Mustangs from Iwp first heavy fighter yesterday Atsugi airfield. Prelisted- 102 enemy anes destroyed or damaged

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Opes U. S. assault troop ed Balabac island, south of The German communique ican-controlled Palawan 226 Russian tanks were knock it opposition. Balabac is only yesterday before Berlin from the northern tip of Borneo. Smash Spree Line On “northern Luzon American The «first report of a possible troops met continued fierce rejunctien of the American and Rus- sistance in the battle for Baguio. sian forces came from Moscow. Liberator bombers continued the United Press Correspondent campaign to . neutralize Formosa, Henry Shapiro reported from the south of the Ryukyus, with attacks Soviet capital that Russian fgrces, Tuesday and ‘Wednesday. after breaking through the Spree | river defense line, were thrusting on » toward a junction with the United States: 3d army forces advancing on Dresden

“In the Dresden sector, motorized | PAPERS IN MADRID Soviet patrols probably already have |

contacted the scouts of Lt. Gen| MADRID, April 20 (U. _.George S. Patton,” Shapiro reported | Neighbors said today that the staff In’ any event, the Moscow dis- of the German embassy has begun * pafch said, giant Stalin and Sher |purming documents and files in the man tanks surging westward from embassy yard. Columns of thick the crumbled Spree line can easly) ye rose from the. grounds yesexchange radio greetings with the terday. v Americans, | The German. news agencies, ‘Closing on Dresden’ | Transocean and D. N. B., were disSoviet field reports referred to missing their Madrid staffs.’ They Marshal Ivan S. Konev's 1st Ukrain- said service had been suspended ian army units “closing in on Dres- because of iack of funds, but it apden.” peared the real reason was poor But by Nazi account the closest communications with Germany, Soviet approach to the Saxony capi-, (Spain broke diplomatic relatal was at Bautzen, 25 miles north- tions with Japan last week.) east. { U. 8. 3d army forces were 30-o0dd miles from Dresden at last report It was evident that any such patrol junction as Moscow suggested would be mmportant mainly for its symbolism of an east-west ; meeting and the collapse of the| O B » German defenses in the Dresden! n to erlin region. Shapiro reported that—after the Red army’s medest announcement of the expansion of bridgeheads across the Oder before Berlin and : : beyond the Neisse to the south- es {approaching Strausberg German report).

_ east—masseés of army groups were! swarming over bot dren Fr WESTERN FRONT- 43 ‘miles (from. south. of Tangermuende),

great enveloping operation circum; scribing the. arc ‘of the capital.” ITALIAN FRONT-516 miles’ Russian - field dispatches sald! (from near Comacchio),

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WASHINGT -— President . Tn day that Charl old Washingto the St. Louis become his May 15. When Mr office it was

LISBON, April 20 (U, P.).—German airline service between Stuttgart and Lisbon will be suspended next week. Portuguese employees of the airline have been discharged.

The nearest distances to. Berlin from advanced allied lines today:

EASTERN FRONT—About seven

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