THREAT TO DANZIG
PORT NO LONGER USED
rm, o * LONDON, February 5. The Bay of Danzig—the key area for the mam German naval forces concentrated in the lower Baltic—is already beginning to be untenable for the enemy. With the front drawing steadily nearer the Germans have ceased to operate convoys from Danzig to supply their trapped groups in western Latvia, and they are now making sailings from ports much further west. In East Prussia the end is near for the remaining Germans in the Samland Peninsula west and north of Konigsberg, and increasing numbers of prisoners are coming out from the sand dunes and woodlands. The German High Command has apparently abandoned all hope of the trapped Germans in East Prussia breaking out, but it has ordered them to keep up their resistance, since the greatest importance is attached to keeping Rokossovsky's forces engaged, and thus delaying their main push to Danzig.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 31, 6 February 1945, Page 5
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152THREAT TO DANZIG Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 31, 6 February 1945, Page 5
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