HITLER'S REDOUBT
NEW BATTLE DEVELOPMENTS Rec. 1.50 p.m. LONDON, April 23. New developments in the battle for Hitler's national redoubt on the Austrian Tyrol are reported tonight. The correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain with General Patton's 3rd Army states that infantry after a dash of eight miles to the southeast, reached the Naab River 13 miles north of Regensburg. Opposition was on a minor scale. Two armoured columns which had captured intact two bridges over the river reached points between 24 and 33 miles northeast of Regensburg. The correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain . with General Army says that an armoured column raced towards the Danube at Ehingen, 40 miles south-west of the Dillingen bridgehead, which was being held today against enfemy air attacks. The Americans swept along the line of Guzenhausen to Nordlingen, encountering no resistance. A "Daily Mail" correspondent with the 3rd Army says: "So far, wherever the Americans have gone, the Germans have cleared out so quickly that they have left the roads unblocked and bridges unblown. Tanks, armoured cars, and motorised infantry are making tours' with little happening beyond the stares of peasant workers in the fields. It seems likely that theDanube itself may be the Germans' choice for a defence line. Harassed by the French army in the west and with the American 7th Army, smashing on- : ward, the Germans are now. faced overnight with a powerful new army joining in the assault to the south into the Upper Danube Basin, and the Germans must be more and more conscious of Marshal Tolbukhin's forces coming north-west from the Vienna area." "On the 3rd Army flank, with a bridgehead already over' the Danube, is General Patch's 7th Army, and coming up the Danube -tind along the Ger-man-Swiss frontier is the Ist French Army," stated a "Daily Express" correspondent at Supreme Headquarters. "The Russians are. advancing across the Vienna plains to-complete the encirclement of the redoubt. The 3ri and 7th, Armies are sweeping southeast along a front of 200 miles from Plauen to.Lake Constance. -It. is likelvi that'in this great 7ast battle we s^U • see srme of the heaviest and most difficult fi ghtin £j. of : Vthe: war."\ :: : ; Paris radio says ; that;\French' troops, have Iterated the entire "Alpes Mari-; times Department, andS;crossed the : Italian frnntifr.wher^e:.heavy,-fighting is in progress./ . :,? :;.■ . ■■"■.'• .^". :';■■"\.' A British United Press correspondent at'6th Army Group headquarters says that French troops extended their, control along the-Swiss frontier and advanced' along1 the'shores of Lake Constance towards Friednchshafen. t. i
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 96, 24 April 1945, Page 8
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416HITLER'S REDOUBT Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 96, 24 April 1945, Page 8
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