HUNTINGDON, PA.,
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2 8, 1945
U.S.
ARMOR WITHIN
200
MILES OR LESS
OF
REICH CAPITAL
Allies Racing
Almost Unopposed Thru
Flaming Reich 20
To 90 Miles
Beyond
Rhine—German
Front
Disintegrating
By BOYD
D.
.
United Press Correspondent
Pans, March 28
The seven Allied armies of the west
struck with their full armored power along the German 200-mile battle line east
of the Rhine today in a series of breakthroughs that sent American tank columns
to within 230 miles or less of Berlin.
Hundreds of American and British
tanks swept ahead of the advancing infantry divisions and raced almost
unopposed across the flaming Reich anywhere from 20 to 90" miles beyond
the Rhine. The entire German front appeared to have disintegrated.
Into a few blazing hours that threatened
Germany with her greatest military disaster of the war were .packed these developments:
The American First Army swept 60
miles or more beyond the
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BULLETIN
21st
Army Group GHQ, March28.—Fighter pilots reported today the Germans are in
"general retreat" before the British Second Army.
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middle Rhine . to the outskirts
of Giessen23miles southwest of Berlin,
splitting through the center of the Wehrmacht front and outflanking
Frankfurt-On-Main. Radio Luxembourg reported that riots swept besieged
Frankfurt on
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BULLETIN
London,
March 28.—Radio Luxembourg reported today that American Ninth Army forces have captured
Sterkrade, a big –industrial suburb of Duisberg, nine miles north of that Ruhr
city.
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Main today when 100,000
remaining- civilians demanded that it be surrendered without a fight. The
broadcast said the riots broke out after about 400,000 civilians had left the
city and remnants of the regular German garrison refused the surrender
demands made by the
remaining civilians.
GERMANS
SAY SOVIETS MASSED FOR
EARLY
FRONTAL ASSAULT ON BERLIN
ENEMY'S
SOUTHERN
DEFENSES
CRUMBLE
ON
350-MILE FRONT
BULLETIN
London, March 28.—
The Red Army was reported today
to have smashed across the river Raab in northwest Hungary in a drive for
"the junction city of Csorna, only 75 miles southeast of Vienna.
German reports admitted the Red
Army had crossed the Marcal Canal lying just east of the .Raab and Moscow
reports said that it was believed the Raab also had been crossed.
BULLETIN
London, March 28.—
A German DNB Agency report said
today that Soviet forces now are battling in-the region of Savar on the Raba
River, 26 miles west of Papa and only 21 miles from Austria.
By
ROBERT SIUSEL
United Press Correspondent London,
March 28. —
The Nazis said today that the Red
Army has massed "super armed forces" and fresh - infantry divisions across the Oder River for an early
frontal assault, on Berlin.
To the south, the Soviets drove to
within 20 miles of Austria and 58 of Vienna, as a Fourth Ukrainian Army
group joined an offensive crumbling Germany's southern
defenses along- a 350-mile front.
U.S.
PLANES RAID
JAPAN
IN SUPPORT
OF
KERAMA ACTION
By
FRANK TREMAIN
United Press Correspondent
Guam, March 28.—
Tokyo said that American carrier
" planes raided southern Japan today in support of the reported invasion of the
Kerama Islands, 380 miles to the southwest.
A broadcast Domei News Agency dispatch
said that approximately 90 carrier planes raided Kyushu, southernmost of the
Japanese home islands, this afternoon
(Japanese time). The raid was
centered on the Miyazaki and Kagoshima prefectures in the southern part of
"the upland' Domei
said. '
An early Tokyo radio broadcast reported
that American, reinforcements had landed in the Kerama Islands southwest of Kyushu,
and said "savage battles" were under way.
The invasion of the Keramas part
of the Okinawa Group, is only a prelude to imminent landings on Okinawa Island
itself,, site of an important naval base and several airfields in. Japan's
inner defense belt, radio Tokyo said.
Supporting American warships including
at least 11 battleships-----
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U.S.
TROOPS SWEEP
OVER
CEBU; NEAR
CAPITALOF
ISLAND
By H.
D. QUIGG
Press
Correspondent
Manila, March 28.—
American invasion forces swept
over Cebu today to within two and a half
miles of burning Cebu City, capital of the central Philippines islands.
Elements of the American
Division,- which landed on the mine strewn beach at Talisay on the east coast
Monday, were battling the Japanese garrison at Pardo
just south of the. capital. Cebu
City is the second largest port in the Philippines.
Huge fires were reported out of
control in Cebu City and the Japanese apparently were following their theme of
destruction which devastated Manila and other
island capitals in the area-
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