KINGSPORT, TENN./SAT./.JAN. 20,
1945
Lodz
Seized,
Pinzer
Grip
East
Prussia
Sweeping
Soviet
Drive
Threatens
Germany's
Border
By W. W. Kercher _ . _
London, Saturday —AP—
The Red Army, opening two more massive
offensives, reached the German Sileasian frontier 225-miles from Berlin Friday
in a sensational surge through Poland, captured the bastions of Lodz and
Krakow, and clamped a huge pincers on East Prussia in. a. great new breaks through
into that ancient Reich province.
The
Red Army's first contact with the. border of the main body of Germany, from
which Adolf Hitler's legions invaded
Poland to start “the"second
World War Sept. 1, 1939”'as announced officially in the midnight Moscow
communique.
The Nazis' beleaguered homeland unofficial
reports said the Russians already- had plunged across the frontier, and were fighting
on the Nazis' beleaguered homeland.
It 'was the ,First" Ukraine
Army one of five 'powerful Soviet' armies estimated at 3,000,000 or more men had
reached the frontier of industrially-rich Silesia with the capture of Praszka,'
50 miles" east of the capital at Breslau. These troops also crippled the
six-way road junction of Wielund, 12
miles northeast of Prazka, and also 225 miles southeast of Berlin.
Red
Armies
Seize
Krakow
German Troops
Collapse Along Entire
Eastern Front; Stalin
Issues Four
Orders of the Day to
Announce Gains
LONDON, Jan. 19.—(/P)—
The Russians rolled through
broken German defenses all along the eastern front today, Capturing Krakow and
driving into East, Prussia to a depth of 30 miles in their greatest penetration
of the Reich.
Marshal Stalin announced the
loosing of two more offensives in East Prussia and in the Carpathians of
Southern Poland. Developments' were:
1-The Russians have captured
Lodz, 70 miles west of Warsaw and 250 miles from
Berlin, Stalin announced in his
fifth order of the day.
Lodz, with a population of
600.000, is the second city of Poland. Also captured by Marshal Gregory
Zhukov's First White Russian Army in the central Polish front was the city of
Kutno. 65 miles due west of Warsaw and 245 miles from Berlin.
2—Complete liberation of Budapest
was foreshadowed by withdrawal of the German garrison to the west side of the
Danube in the Hungarian capital.
NEW
OFFENSIVE
3—Stalin, in an order of the day,
disclosed that a new offensive, the fourth of the series of gigantic Winter
operations, had lanced forward 50 miles on a front of 38
miles
in the Carpathians. It seized Gorlice. 65 miles southeast of Krakow: Jaslow, 15
miles northeast of Gorlice and 400 other towns and forced the Wisloka and
Dunajec Rivers.
Yanks
Strike
At Nazi Push
Along
Rhine
Germans Broaden
River Bridgehead
Near Strasbourg
Paris — (AP)—
The U. S. Seventh Army struck
back Friday at German forces north of imperiled Strasbourg, where the enemy
earlier in the day massed 10,000 troops jbrokc from the Rhine bridgehead,
joined up with other forces farther north on a solid 75-milefront
The Fighter bombers ripped into
enemy armor and doughboys drove the Germans back across the Zorn river some
nine miles north of the Austrian capital. Other American blows showered down on
the front in a. grim attempt to keep the Ger-
mans from outflanking all
American positions in northeastern France.
Virtually all the 300-mile
western front was aflame. Allied and German. armies raced to see which could
get their stalled offensives rolling first in these critical winter months when
Germany is faced with crushing blows from east and west.
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