January 26, 1945; Soviets 125 Miles From Berlin:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JANUARY 26, 1945:

CORSICANA, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1945. —TEN PAGES

EAST PRUSSIA HAS

APPARENTLY BEEN

CUT FROM GERMANY

CAPTURE OF GLIWITZ, BIG

INDUSTRIAL CENTER, ANNOUNCED

BY STALIN

LONDON, Jan. 25.—(/P)—

Marshal Stalin announced tonight Russian forces had captured Oels, a communications center 14 miles northeast of Rreslau.

The Red army also captured Ostrow, thirteen miles southwest of Kallsz In Poland and ten miles from the northern border of Silesia.

LONDON, Jan 2S.—(AP)-

Red army forces have broken the Oder river line In Southeast Germany and are exploiting the breakthrough while In apparently have the north cut off the East

Prussia, Soviet field dispatches announced today.

Moscow broadcasts said the thunderous Soviet winter offensive hadrolled to a point little more than 125 miles from Berlin and that Red army units . were fighting "on the edge of Konlgsborg," capital of East Prussia.

Capture of Gleiwltz, big Industrial center just west of the Silesian manufacturing towns of Hindenburg and Beuthen, was announced by Marshal Stalin. Chrzanow,

important center In the Bombrowa coal basin, 17 miles west of captured Krakow in Poland,also was taken.

Largest Nazi City Taken.

Glelwltz, 80 miles southeast of  Broslau, is the largest German city captured by the Russians.  It’s 118,000 Population was mostly engaged in a large coal transhipping

business and seven large arms machinery plants.

RUSSIANS LITTLE T

MORE THAN 125 MILES

FROM NAZI CAPITAL

NEW NAZI OFFENSIVE

LAUNCHED ON WESTERN

FRONT ON THURSDAY

By WILLIAM L. RYAN

Associated Press War Editor

The Red army, Its vanguards little more than 125 miles from Berlin, has cracked the Oder river' line before Breslu and in the North apparently sheared off most of East Prussia, but on the Western front supreme Allied headquarters announced n new and desperate Nazi offensive, possibly aimed at winning back all of Alsace.

NORTHERN ALSACE IS

SCENE OF DESPERATE

ENEMY OFFENSIVE

FAR TO NORTH BRITISH

SECOND ARMY DRIVE

NEAR SIEGFRIED LINE

By EDWARD KENNEDY

PARIS, Jan. 25.—(/P)—

The Germans have opened a desperate new offensive against the Western

Front in Northern Alsace, it was announced late today at supreme headquarters, possibly in a supreme effort to win back the whole northeast France province.

Attacking on a 20-mile front from Haguenau northwest Into the Vosges mountains, the enemy crossed the Moder river at places 15 miles below the reich frontier.

Far to the north, the British Second army drove under guns of the Siegfried line to within a mile of the Roer river, where the fixed defenses begin. Seven towns within 30 miles of Dusseldorf fell to the Tommies.

The allied air force again pounded on thinning German traffic faltering out of the Ardennes salient in the center. German troop move ments toward the east still were

seen.

Nine, More Towns Taken.

The First and Third armies captured nine more towns In Ardennes sector, three of them Inside Germany.

First army troops pushed close to the reich frontier around Wallenrode and Ambleve, above St. Vith. The First division trapped  and captured 300 nazis.