ZHUKOV'S WEDGE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 31, 6 February 1945, Page 6

ZHUKOV'S WEDGE

POINT OVER ODER

BRIDGEHEAD MADE

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) Rec. 1.30 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 5. The Berlin radio star commentator, Yon Hammer, said that the Russians have succeeded in establishing a bridgehead or* the west bank of the Oder, north-west of Kustrin, and that the Germans are attacking the bridgehead. .

Another Berlin spokesman stated that without doubt the Russian aim is to establish as many Oder bridgeheads as possible. One German position on ;the east bank of the Oder at Frankfurt is being attacked from the north-east and south-east, and under the impact of the attacks has been somewhat narrowed down.

The German news agency commentator Yon Olberg declared that the German counter-measures are making themselves felt. "The Russian Command has shifted the main weight of the attack to the Brieg sector and the southern part of the East Prussian front. It is obvious that regrouping on a major scale is taking place in the central sctor. Zhukov is waiting tor infantry reinforcements to catch up with the tanks."

A.Russian officer told the Moscow correspondent of the Associated Press that Posen will have to be liquidated. "Pqsen is astride important communications to Frankfurt, We cannot allow 20,000 Germans to stay indefinitely in our rear. We have brought up some of our biggest guns to finish off Posen."

According to the Paris radio, the Germans have requisitioned all Danish ferryboats in preparation for the evacuation of Danzig, Stettin, and other ports. MOSCOW REPORT. Tonight's Soviet communique states that north-west of Konigsberg the Russians continued to -fight to clear the Samland Peninsula and have captured several places. The Russians breached the Oder near Goritz, five miles south of Kustrin, and also captured Neumuehl, on the Oder, nine miles downstream from Kustrin.

North and south-east of Frankfurt the Red Army captured a hundred places, including Zellin, 15 miles north-west of Kustrin and 35 miles north-east of the outskirts of Berlin. In Posen, the Russians continued to fight for the destruction of the encircled Germans, and captured an arsenal containing 58 guns. The Russians captured 16 blocks of buildings in Budapest, and a number of places south-west of Budapest. -