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PARIS, April 24 — </P) — The
American Third Army reached
the Danube and moved to within
eighty-two miles of Berchtesga
den, while two other armies are
* assaulting Hitler’s final Alpine re
doubt and crashed forward in a
great maneuver to encircle Mu
nich, one of the greatest of south
German cities.
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British in the north stormed
Bremen, while armies in the cen
^ ter awaited a junction with the j
Russians. “American Seventh and
French First armies are exploit
ing their Danube bridgeheads in
drives to the Swiss-Austrian bor
ders with the encirclement of Mu
nich shaping up steadily.”
An Associated Press correspon
dent, A. I. Goldberg, reported
from Devers, Sixth Army group
headquarters, that the vaguely
defined redoubt in the south has
perhaps been invaded already by
Devers troops which outflanked
Lake Constance, its western limit.
The Tenth Armored Division of
* the Seventh Army captured Ober
balzheim, sixty-seven miles
northwest of Munich and ninety
seven miles from Brenner Pass
into Italy. Other Seventh Army
troops are but forty-six miles
from Munich, third largest city in
Germany.
All three armies are rolling un
checked through the foothills of
the Alps on terrain two thousand
or more feet high. Patton’s Third
Army reached Regen, thirty-two
miles from Austria and one hun
dred twenty-three miles from the
Russian lines in the St. Polten
* area west of Vienna. Both armies
are in the Danube valley which is
good tank country.
The junction of these forces en
circles all unconquered Bohemian
► and Moravian portions of Czecho
slovakia which Bismarck said is
the key to the control of Europe.
In the northern redoubt the
British stormed Bremen and
tightened the siege on Hamburg
and bombed troops and trains
pulling into Denmark.
The American and Russian
junction in the center is expected
today if indeed it has not already
occurred as many correspondents
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YANKS TAKE A REST —U. S. infantrymen rest on the outskirts of a Filipino village after
hitting the beach in their invasion of Lu.on. P. I.
Allies Earthquake
J Bombs Blast
Berchtesgaden
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LONDON, April 25—</P)—RAF
Lancasters bombed Hitler’s chalet
in Berchtesgaden in the possible
attempt on his life. Both the chal
et and the heavily guarded instal
lations on the grounds in the
mountain retreat were bombed.
The Storm Troopers baracks
and Hitler’s Alpine refuge on top
of Kehlstein mountin five miles
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BASEBALL
MONDAY GAMES
All American League games
p o s t p oned. Hollywood-Seattle
game postponed.
National League
Philadelphia 2, New York 5;
Chicago-Cincinnati game post-1
poned; Brooklyn 6. Bostoij 8. Only
games scheduled.
from the chalet were among the
targets attacked between nine and
ten a.m. by two separate forces of
heavy Lancasters with twelve
thousand pound “earthquake”
bombs.
Both United States Eighth Air
force and RAF fighters escorted
the Lancasters in the assault.
The first announcement of the
Air Ministry said that two bomb
ers were missing. There was no
official suggestion that the attack
was planned specifically to catch
Hitler in his fortress home, but
unofficially it was pointed out
“there is always that possibility.”
Several German broadcasts in
sisted that Hitler is staying in
Berlin, a martyr to a lost cause,
but such reports are discounted in
Allied quarters.
Mrs. E. W. Quigley left for Sol
omon today, where Mr. Quigley
is engaged in mining. She was
taken by Pete Curran and his dog
team.
Security Confer
| ence Opened At
San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO, April 25—
<iP)—With one chair, Poland, dra
matically empty, forty-six victo
rious nations of World War Two
assembled in the first historic po
litical conference to try and blue
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Soviet Armies
Almost Encircle
Berlin
LONDON, April 25—(/P)—Sov
iet troops reached the Elbe River
on a twenty-two mile front north
west of Dresden and all but com
pleted the encirclement of Berlin,
slicing the last escape rail line to
the west, the German command
said. Moscow announced Monday
the Russians had reached the Elbe
river norhtwest of Dresden.
At last reports the Americans
stood on the Mulde river east of
1 Leipzig, twenty-miles from the
Elbe. The broadcast communique
said the Russians had reached the
Elbe between Riesta, twenty-five
miles northwest of Dresden and
Torgau, another point twenty-two
miles farther northwest.
Half of Berlin is held by Soviet
troops, beating down German bar
ricades of stone and iron and
knocking back German tanks and
fighting Nazis who popped out of
subways behind the Russian lines.
The wreckage in Berlin is de
scribed as stone jungles of roar
ing bitter battle.
The First White Russian army
cut nine miles southward from
West Berlin to Ketzin, fourteen
miles due west of the capital and
all but encircled the city. The
German communique said the
complete isolation of the capital
is near. German defenders, young
and old, fought stubbornly in the
city which was once one of the
world’s greatest, is being reduced
to a heap of blasted masonry and
ashes.
The First White Russian Army,
driving from the north and the
First Ukrainian Army, advancing
from the south joined forces yes
terday in southeastern Berlin,
cutting off large forces of Ger
mans to the southeast.
Propaganda Minister Goebbels
in a statement broadcast from
the Hamburg radio told Berliners
that help was on the way, and ap
pealed to the garrison to held out,
“important relief defenders of
Berlin are being brought up.”