GREAT OFFENSIVE ON HUNGARY

Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 4, 29 September 1944, Page 5

GREAT OFFENSIVE ON HUNGARY

Hundred Mile Front

LONDON, September 27. German and Hungarian reports indicate that the Red Army has now launched an offensive against Hungary from western Rumania, today’s German, high command communique speaks of violent fighting against advancing Russian paratroops along a front stretching roughly 100 miles. , _ . _ Hungarian reports say the Russians have crossed the frontier at several points and captured at least two places, one 14 miles inside Hungary. The battle front apparently stretches from near tbe meeting place of the Hungarian, Rumanian, and Yugoslav frontiers .(near Szeged) to the great railway junction of Oradea (146 miles east of Budapest). The Red Army’s attack on southeastern Hungary, between Oradea, in western Transylvania, and Szeged, an important town on the Tisza River,, is, in the opinion of the British United Press correspondent in Moscow, the. beginning of an all-out assault against Budapest, because the Tisza River, winding through the flat Hungarian plain, is the only natural obstacle between the Russians and the Hungarian capital. General Malinovsky has launched an attack to outflank the Iron Gate, the famous gorge of the Danube River.- His troops have reached an area 30 miles west of Turan Severin. The German news agency states that the Russians crossed the Hungarian border and captured. Mako and Foldeak, east of Szeged. „ . . rv:w. It is reported from Marshal Tito s headquarters that Partisan troops have readied the border of Yugoslavia and Hungary.