Panic Raging In East Prussia

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 182, 3 August 1944, Page 5

Panic Raging In East Prussia

NAZI MOBILISATION

Russian Army Within Eight Miles Of Border

' T (N.Z.P.A. —Copyright.—Rec. noon.) LONDON, August 2. The final domination of Warsaw and the crossing of the East Prussian border are at present the most momentous of the Red Army's aims of accomplishment for which the world is expectantly waiting, ■'■' With Russian armies only a few miles from the East Prussian . frontier, Ley, the German Minister of Labour, and Koch, Gauleiter of East Prussia, in a joint declaration called for full mobilisation in. East Prussia, says the Berlin correspondent of the Stockholm newspaper Aftonbladet. The proclamation states that East Prussia will show the world what the Germans can perform. Moscow radio quotes a Russian war correspondent on General Chernyakhov's Third White Russian Front as saying: "We are getting nearer and nearer the East Prussian border. German officers and men who have been taken prisoner reveal that panic is reigning in East Prussia and that Nazi officials are leaving the country. The rank and file of the population has been forbidden to use the railways, which are crammed with- war material. Children are being evacuated on foot." 7 . To-night's Soviet communique states that the places captured in the Marijampilis sector include Vistytis, on the East Prussian border, 20 miles west of Kalvarija and a few miles north of the point where the frontiers of East Prussia, Lithuania and Poland meet. ' Another communique announces the capture of Dydvizhe, eight miles south-east of the East Prussian border town of Schirwindt.