SUDDEN ADVANCE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 134, 4 December 1944, Page 5

SUDDEN ADVANCE

FIFTY MILES TO WEST

\&ONDON, December 2. In a swift aiitaance the Jfced Army has driven well into south-western Hungary and decsply outflanked Budapest from the south. F«rces which only last week \t Ere «n the line of fne Dnieper River neiir Baja ar« now some 50 miles to the \t,iest, and other troops have advanced u» the west bank «f the Danube more than 30 miles north of Baja and 60 miles south of Budapest. Large-scale' battles have been going on over a 40-mile front, bat the Red Army has the 'Controlling hand.

An Order of the '.Day this evening by Marshal Stalin addressed to Marshal Tolbulkhin and 'lieutenant-Gene-ral Iyanov says: "Fcttees of the Third Ukrainian Front -have in two days occupied five Hungarian towns. These are Kaposvar, Paks, Szekszard, Bonyhad, and Dombovar."

The five towns stand in a wide arc below Budapest facing; Lake Balaton. Paksis a railway station on the Danube 60 miles south of the capitaL Szekszard is 22 miles south-south-west and five miles west of the Danudbe. Bonyhad is 11 miles sou,th-west again, with Dombovar 20 miles west. This-is an important station on ,the Budapest-Zagreb railway. Nearly 20 milfes west again is Kaposvar. . .