NAZI TROUBLES IN OSLO

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 152, 26 December 1944, Page 5

NAZI TROUBLES IN OSLO

Rec. 9 a.m. -LONDON.,Dec-25," The Norwegian Government's -information office states that German military headquarters in Norway have been moved from Oslo to Lillehammer where they can be more easily protected from saboteurs who have been active against the Germans in Oslo.

j Berlin reports earlier tonight mii dicated a sharpening of the Soviet (threat. One German war reporter jsaid the din of battle was getting nearer and nearer to the Hungarian capital, and a message from the German news agency reported that the Russians were sending every tank and infantryman they could into a triangle of territory extending to a point five miles south-west of the city. Earlier Moscow messages said that the Soviet forces which cut the roads and railways running west and southwest from Budapest were now striking for the Danube north of-the city, so as .to. complete,.the. encirclement of the enemy garrison. Two great highways running north arid" nbrtH-west, the enemy's last remaining." escape routes, were already under fire from Soviet guns. Soviet tanks and artillery were meanwhile attacking the city's outer defences from the west. Fifty- miles north-west of Budapest Soviet forces in Slovakia are moving towards the Var River line, less than 100 miles from Vienna, after beating off German tank attacks. • .