IN CENTRAL SECTOR

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

IN CENTRAL SECTOR

NAZIS REINFORCE HEAVILY

LONDON, February 28. Widespread Russian scouting operations along the fronts of both Marshal Zhukov and Marshal Koniev disclosed; that the Germans along the central1 front have brought up more heavy reinforcements of men and equipment to positions behind the Oder-Spree defence line, which has the Neisse River as its front screen, say Red Army front-line dispatches quoted by a MosS cow correspondent.

In addition to thousands of troops, including the Volkssturm, the Germans have brought up every type of artillery, tanks, and anti-tank devices. Trenches are studded with machinegun and light artillery posts, and the land is thickly mined for miles behind the Spree.

Reuters Moscow correspondent says that Marshal Rokossovsky has opened a new push which is increasing the threat to close the Baltic trap on the Germans fighting in Pomerania and the Polish Corridor. The new gains represent part of a steady pincer movement against Neustettin which was earlier menaced by the Russians, who once pushed within 15 miles of the town from a southerly. direction.

The renewed flare-up on the Baltic front is accompanied by an intensification of Russian air patrols over coastal shipping routes and over Danzig Bay. German transports are now moving in daytime only with the strongest escorts. The battle for Breslau is moving to a climax, the Red Army throwing mora tanks and storm troopers into the cityjs The Russians, fighting a grim housed to-house battle, have reached Hindenberg Square in the centre of the city, where the fanatical defenders have anti-tank gun emplacements. Fierce fighting is going on-for possession of the square.