GREAT BATTLE IN HUNGARY

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 13654, 11 January 1945, Page 3

GREAT BATTLE IN HUNGARY

TIDE TURNING RUSSIAN WAY MIGHTY THREE-FOLD STRUGGLE German Efforts To Relieve Trapped Forces Soviet Troops In Outskirts Of Komarno London, Jan. 10. The tide of the battle in Hungary seems to be turning the Russian way. A correspondent in a despatch from Moscow sums up the latest developments in the threefold struggle—inside Budapest, west of the city and north of the Danube*. He says the Germans are throwing still more reinforcements into their attempts to rescue the SO,OOO to 100.000 men beleaguered in the Hungaria ncapital. In some of thc.'r assaults from snow-covered hills northwest of the city they used up to 100 tanks, mobile guns and armoured troop carriers at the same time. But nowhere have the Germans made a fresh break through and the chances of relief for the garrison do not look as good as they did a few days ago. The Russians inside Budapest have made valuable gains in the industrial area on the east bank of the Danube and they now hold more than half the whole built-up area of the city . German resistance is bitter and skilful. They arc fighting back desperately in the streets of the industrial area and in one day 3 8 German snipers were shot down from perches on factory chimneys. Meanwhile the Soviet troops continue their outflanking drive along the north bank of the Danube. Today are in the outskirts of Komarno and threaten the base of all the German efforts to relieve Budapest.