ON BOTH FRONTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 49, 27 February 1945, Page 5

ON BOTH FRONTS

OPERATIONS LINKED

Rec. -11 a.m. LONDON, February 26. Germany is now caught in a hugo< pincers. That is the view which' Moscow is now. taking of the war, says the British United Press Moscow correspondent. The Russians reckon that the Allies in the West are now able to link up their operations withi those of the Red Army in the East.

Although there is a comparative lull on the Eastern Front at presentJ all the Russian armies along the Una are regarded as having reached ar completely operative stage. The Exchange Telegraph's Stocky holm correspondent, quoting reports from Berlin, confirms the report thatf the German people have come to] realise that the fighting in the Easts and West has been carefully coJ ordinated. It has also become obvious to the Germans that the increased! Russian activity in Pomerania is de* signed to clear up Marshal Zhukov's northern flank preparatory to a drive against Berlin. MOSCOW'S SILENCE. Moscow is still silent regarding developments on Marshal Zhukov's ancj Marshal Koniev's sectors. The German commentator, Majon yon Hammer, said that fighting has begun along a 60-mile stretch south] of Furstenb'urg as far as the LaubanJ sector. Koniev's shock troops suc4 ceeded in penetrating the suburbs ofi Guben and Forst, where they weres1 checked in "tenacious defensive battles." Yon Hammer claimed thati German counter-attacks on the Neissel River smashed several Russian bridgeJ heads. "Zhukov has not yet launched hia attack in the centre," he said. "The Russian Command is making an effort: to bring the sectors north and south] of his front into line with his advance." GUDERIAN RETIRING. Guderlan's northern army is falling!, back to the Baltic along 180 miles ot front, says Reuters Moscow correspondent. The Red Army is within 20 miles of Stettin and 30 miles of Danzig. Major yon Hammer has admitted that powerful Russian forces made a deed breach between Choinice and Landeckj The Moscow correspondent of "The' Times" says that the Germans in the! Choinice sector are reported to have lost 3000 killed and 23 tanks. A feature of the fighting on all the Baltio fronts is the complexity and extent of the German field fortifications. Foreign workers from all parts ofi Europe have been engaged in digging 1 them. The Germans, in defiance of the Geneva Convention, made French priJ soners of war dig front-line defences! under shellfire.

MORE NAZI SAVAGERY. , Qualified Russian investigations have drawn up an official indie. .oient accusing the Germans of using 903 Jewish women, including inhabitants of Prague and Amsterdam and members of the Secretariat of the League of Nations, for work orT fortifications, and of killing them before the retreat by the injection of carbolic acid; One hundred and fifty of the victims' survived, but they are in such a condition that few are expected to live long. {

Tonight's Soviet communique says that the Russians on Samland Peninsula repelled strong tank and infantry attacks and captured several places. The Russians in areas north-west and south-west of Konigsberg destroyed 69 tanks.

Fighting continued in the Breslau area for the destruction of the encircled enemy. Fifteen blocks of houses were captured.