THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1945:
HURON;,, SOUTH DAKOTA, SUNDAY,
FEBRUARY 11, 1945
Elbing
Taken;
Ring
Tightens
About
Breslau
LONDON. Feb. 11. M'I —
Russian troops captured the East Prussian
port of Elbing and drove a new Pomeranian spearhead to within 52 miles of the
Baltic yesterday, while Berlin announced that other powerful southern
formations had broken into the suburbs
of Liefinitz, bis industrial city
and road hub guarding the back door to Breslau. lower Silesian capital.
The battle for Berlin's immediate
approaches was cloaked in security silence by Moscow, but German broadcasts
indicated that the Red Army had broken the last substantial Nazi resistance
east of the Oder River and had crossed the stream in great strength at points
30 to 43 miles from Berlin.
Marshal Ivan S. Konev's First Ukraine
Army in Silesia was reported to have smashed 25 miles west of the Oder River in
two days, penetrating to within P2
miles of Dresden, German Saxony
stronghold 90 miles below imperiled Berlin, but Moscow's communique did not
mention this sector either.
Announce
Elbing's Fall An order of the day signed by Premier Stalin, presumably still put the "Big Three" meeting in the Black Sea area, announced the
fall of Elbing, 32 miles southeast of
Danzig and 05 miles southwest of
besieged Koenigsberg, East Prussian
capital.
Marshal K. K. Rokossovsky's
Second White Russian Army toppled Elbing, smashed a fanatically-resisting
garrison which had been bolstered by German
Marine units, and captured 4,300
prisoners Thursday and Friday, Moscow said.
Nazis Flood Roer
Valley As
.Canadians Smash
Near Kleve
Enemy
Takes
desperate
Steps
To
Bolster Line
By EDWARD KENNEDY
PARIS, Feb. 11. (tF) —
The Germans blew the gates of the
biggest Roer River dam and sent a flood roaring north along the valley in an
attempt to bolster their western defenses, already quakng to the shock of
Canadian First Army forces battling near the
edge of Kleve.
Unable further to d e f e n d
Schwammenauel Dam, the enemy dynamited its gates and thereby threw away a trump
with which it had held back an Allied smash into the Ruhr and Rhineland since
November.
Had they blown the whole Roer system
of seven dams at once, an 18-foot tide would have swept down upon the British
Second and U. S. Ninth Army positions
along the river, creating havoc that
would have taken considerable
time to repair.
Juclich
Flooded.
A front dispatch said that the
enemy stronghold of Juelich was flooded by a three-foot rise, but that the
river already was falling upstream at Dueren and should return to normal in
several days.
Even the destruction of the dams
themselves, once the Schwammenauel reservoirs emptied, would not produce an additional
handicap co the Allies, this account said.
Japs
Are Making Last-Ditch Stand
MANILA, Sunday, Feb. 11
/P) — The
37th Division battled through Saturday with Japanese utilizing houses and
public buildings in South Manila
as pillboxes and fortified strongpoints.
The Japanese still have artillery
emplaced in the area to aid them in their last stand.
Headquarters said in today's
communique that the 37th "is systematically sweeping
the city south of Pasig river in
the Pandacan and Srmita districts."
Units
Joined
The First Cavalry Division, the first
unit to. enter Manila a week ago yesterday, now has joined the 37th in the
fight south of the Pasig.
Headquarters disclosed the Firs
Cavalry struck east through new Manila and then, south, crossing the Pasig
River near San Pedro Makate "to operate in conjunction
with the 37th Division."
New Manila is a mile north of
liberated Santo Tomas internment camp.
Blast
Fortresses
In the Manila Bay
sector, where Tokyo radio has reported the American navy is preparing an entry,
bombers blasted the island fortress of Corregidor and Mariveles on the south
tip 'of Bataan Peninsula with 101 tons of explosives
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