BEING EVACUATED
EASTERN PART OF CITY
Rec 12.30 p.m. LONDON, Dec 1 The eastern districts of Budapest are being evacuated, shops are being emptied, and cafes and restaurants are only open to sell alcohol between 6.30 %Fli a + ud J p'm-' says Berlir> radio. With the Russians on the west bank of the Danube the system of defence works embracing the eastern half of Budapest is being extended •to the western side. The inhabitants are c in at work throwing up a chain of
Trenches, gun emplacements, and machine-gun nests are being speedily erected on the quays on the west bank or the Danube and bridges are being mined.
The capture of 8150 Germans' and Hungarians is recorded in tonight's Soviet communique, which says that the Russians in Czechoslovakia forced the Ondava River and fives miles to the west captured the railway junction of Trebisov, 22 miles south-east of Kosice.
The. Red Army fighting in Czechoslovakia from November 23 to November 30 captured 3000 Germans and Hungarians. The Red Army in Hungary north-east and north of Pecs fought its way into more than 60 places. The Russians, during the battles for the crossing of the Danube north of the Prava River and during the breakthrough operations on the west bank of the Danube to November 30, captured 5150 Germans and Hungarians.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 133, 2 December 1944, Page 7
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