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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 88, 14 April 1945, Page 5

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Austrians Antagonistic Tpo Hun Soldiers 7, N.Z. Press Association—Copyright; 1 Rec. 2 p.m. LONDON, April.-J3. The Red Army's tactics of -dividing Vienna into parts to the liquidation of .centres of resistance and the annihilation of enemy garrisons rather than taking it hlock by block met with .success, Times Moscow correspondent. The Germans had been ' triable to utilise their big stores and 'Srms dumps where most-needecL Trainload of German planes and tanks-were found stranded on railways besides piles of equipment in packed .cases ready for dispatch. - The Austrian population's to the war is illustrated by a description of events in the little town of Bruck, 25 miles south-east of Vienna, where more than 1000 local inhabitants demanded the surrender of the town without resistance. Trains prepared for evacuation; remained empty and the Germans were ejected from the town without having succeeded in evacuating "the people. ■ •' To-night's Soviet communique repeats the Order-of-the-Day dealing with Vienna and adds the Rii¥sians operating north-east and north, of Vienna have occupied a number of places.

Marshal Stalin, in a second Order-of-the-Day, 'announces Marshal Malinovsky's capture of Hodonin, a road and rail centre on the west bank of the Morava River, 53 miles-'Jaorth of Vienna. Correspondents say, the Russians' drive west of Vienna in the direction of St Polten has : two key objectives—Prague and. : the Bavarian border. Vienna is already becoming a main Red Army base for the assault against Hitler's southern fortress. The Viennese are helping to round up the last of the Germans who are disguised in civilian clothes. Parliament Building, with the' greater part of the city, escaped damage.