LETHBRIDGE, ALBERTA, SATURDAY,
APRIL 14,1945
Fires
Rage in Nip Capital
—Huge
Blasts Rock
Superforts
(By Associated Press)
GUAM, April 14 —
The greatest B-29 raiding force
yet struck the arsenal area of Tokyo early today with fire bombs, causing
explosions which pilots said were heard more than 100 miles away.
Explosive blasts bounced the
60-ton Superfortresses--as much as one mile upwards through the air, pilots
said. They unanimously agree it was "a very successful raid."
FIGHT
OFF JETS
The
Japanese met the raiders with jet-propelled fighters which B-29 crew members
said flashed across the sky like great balls of fire.
There
was no official report yet on Superfortress losses, but one returning: flier
said losses were light.
Tokyo
radio said the B-29s had been given a "hot reception" and that 18
were downed and 12 damaged.
Joy
Reigns In
Freed
Vienna
Red
Army Welcomed—
130,000
Germans are
Captured
LONDON,
April 14— (C.P.)—
Powerful
Russian forces, released by the fall of historic Vienna, mounted new drives
today aimed at Prague and the Nazis' mountain fortifications in southern
Germany.
The
Austrian capital on the Danube fell yesterday to the combined weight of the 2nd
and 3rd Ukrainian armies under Marshals Rodion Y. Malnovsky
and
Feodor I. Tolbnkhin after a week-long siege that resulted in the capture of I3,000
Germans, by Moscow account.
10TH
CAPITAL FOR REDS
Vienna, second city of the so-called
greater Reich and bulwark of the invasion routes to Bavaria little more than
100 miles away, was the 10th European capital occupied by the Red Army and the 18th
liberated or conquered by the Allies.
Moscow said that between, March
15 and April 13, 11 German tank divisions were smashed as Russian forces closed
in on the Austrian capital, and the Soviet radio last night said the Viennese
had saved "the honor of the Austrian nation" by assisting In the
liberation of the famed city of song.
Czech Border
Only 18 Miles Away With U.S. 3rd
Army 88 Miles
from Joining Hands With Russians
and Cutting
Germany in Two
Bayreuth
Entered—Tighten Siege
Arc Around
Leipzig
___________________________
Entry Imminent
LONDON,
April 14— (C.P.) —
ABSIE,
the American station in Europe which beams propaganda broadcast to the
continent, said today the United States 9th Army's entry into Berlin was
“imminent."
The station explained, however, that this statement on the broad picture drawn
from front-line dispatches.
The
broadcast made no reference to specific distance of the front line. Latest
advices from Associated Press correspondents with the Sixth Army placed it 45
miles from the city.
ABSIE's
report was broadcast at 5:30 p.m. and said: "There is a state of tension
in Berlin as the United State* fill Army approaches the city's western outskirts.
Entry into Berlin is imminent.
__________________________
WITH THE U.S. 3RD-ARMY, April
14—(A.P.)—
The United States 3rd Army's 90th
infantry reached a point 18 miles from the Czechoslovak border today as the 4th
armored division drove to a point within seven miles of industrial Chemnitz.
Moving On to
German Capital
PARIS, April 14—(A.P.)—The U.S.
9th Army won a record crossing over the Elbe river today and fought slowly
forward on the outer defences of Berlin. U.S. 1st and 3rd Army tanks
hurtled well east of besieged Leipzig, neared the Russian lines and advanced
into the Nazi mountain stronghold of Bayreuth.
The flanking sweep past Leipzig
carried deep into Saxony to within 10 miles of Chemnitz, 88 miles from the Russian
lines and 38 from Dresden.
Germany was virtually bisected
for the last direct communications from Berlin south—including the superhighway
to Munich—were cut. The 3rd Army was within 25 miles of Czechoslovakia and had
by-passed the northwest
tip of
that republic.
No comments:
Post a Comment