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LONDON, Aprli 23—<fl»)....Red
Army troops held a tight grip on
one fifth ot one fourth of Greater
Berlin and bored in from three
sides toward the heart of the
* blazing capital, now blanketed
with shellfire and all but sur
rounded Moscow dispatches said.
Red banners fluttered from bat
tered and smoking buildings in
the capital. Soviet storm units ap
peared to be only a few miles
from Wilhelmstrasse and from
\lnter Den Linden tiergarten in
the heart of the city. There is only
one way out of Sortin to the west
ward by way pf Spandau. Uncon
firmed reports said this escape
corridor is now narrowed to a lit
tle more than five miles.
To the south other Russian
forces are within fifteen miles or
less of a junction with the Amer
ican Allies. The German command
declaring “battle for the Reich
capital blazed up in full fury,”
and claimed the railroad station
of Coepnick, one of Berlin’s main
southeastern suburbs, had been
recaptured.
The communique said fighting
was raging through Beelitz, Treb
bin, Tetlow, Dahlwitz and a string
of southern suburbs within ten
to twenty-four miles of the heart
of Berlin. The Hamburg radio
said the Russians were approach
ing Oganienburg a big suburb,
about seven miles north of Great
er Berlin. This station also said
that Hennigsdorf, west of the Ha
vel river was under assault. The
Russian spearhead at Hennigs
Hitler, Goebbels
In Berlin Concede
It Will Fall
LONDON, April 23—</P»—Hit
ler is in Berlin and decided to re
main there a Hamburg radio said
in a broadcast dirceted to Berlin
residents in an attempt to con
vince them the invaded capital
wouldn’t fall, but the tone of the
dorf is encircling Berlin with less
than a seven mile escape gap at
Spandau. Berlin is being trans
formed into a ghastly monument
by the senseless Nazi resistance as
Soviet shells and bombs tumbled
buildings into the streets, heaping
new ruin on that accomplished by
i past Allied aerial blows.
wording of the announcement
made clear that rumors are sweep
ing the Reich that Hitler is in
flight. The broadcast said the an
nouncement was made to stem
what it described as “fantastic ru
mors by which the enemy is at
tempting to undermine the mor
, ale of the German people." Goeb
bels is also in the capital the
broadcast said and conceded the
fall of Berlin virtually would
mean the end of the war. Goeb
bels is quoted as saying “there
are two bastions we cannot and
will not cede. If these two bas
tions fall into enemy hands the
whole of Europe will perish with
, Germany. Should Bolshevism cap
; ture these capitals of the Reich
the protectorate of Europe ceases
to exist.
BERLIN
Third Army Makes
Large Gain In
Drive Southward
PARIS, April 23—<yp)—Patton’s
Third Army veered sharply south
eastward for twenty-eight mile
gains in a new full blown offen
sive, shearing most of the route*
between the Pilsen and Prague
munitions area and Hitler’s na
tional redoubt in the Bavarian
Alps.
The Luxembourg radio said the
First Army had joined the Rus
sians near Torgau thirty-one
miles northeast of Leipzig and
finally splititng the German’*
northern redoubt from the moun
tain fastness in the south. Su
preme headquarters made no con
firmation and said the junction
i would be announced by Washing
ton, London and Moscow.
At last reports the Allies and
the Russians were fifteen to twen
ty miles apart. The Hellcat Divi
sion of the Seventh Army reached
a town on the Danube fifty miles
from Munich after a fourteen mile
spring from a town not identified.
A two lane bridge was captured
intact. The Danube was crossed
farther west.
In the north the British opened
the final assault on Bremen and
besieged Hamburg, second and
first ports in Germany. Dempsey’s
tanks piled up on the Elbe on a
fifty mile front northwest of the
one hundred and fifty mile stretch
held in the American Ninth and
First Armies. Canadians besieged
Emden but were checked in west
ern Holland on the flooded Greb
be Eeem river line.
Gen. Devers and the Sixth
Army group, American Seventh,
and French First Armies reached
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