ANOTHER LINK-UP
AMERICANS AND RUSSIANS
Rec. noon. RUGBY, April 29. >*The 7th Army has linked up with t^%. Russians on Tolbukhin's front nsi2|h-west of Linz, according to Brusseis^radio.—B.O.W.
;^$ LONDON, April 28. 4'-sne Moscow newspaper "Red Star" re'jß&rts a new link-up, between Rtissians and the Americans, and adds tb.at the junctions were made on a wide front. ~•>■-.
The belt of country in central Germany held jointly by the Russians and Americans now extends for 50 miles, says the British United Press, correspondent with the Ist Army. German resistance has completely collapsed. More than 13,000 panic-stricken German troops streamed out from positions near the Russian lines and "infiltrated" into American prison cages. Some members of the Luftwaffe flew to the American lines to surrender.
War correspondents with the Ist Army^ have ibeen: ordered to remain west of the Elbe and not to visit the Russian lines,,except.wheri accompanying an official party;. This ruling was made at the request of' the Russians, who' do not allow correspondents to move as freely a§ the American armies do.
Moscow radio disclosed that the Russian general who linked up with the American general was Major-General Rusakov, aged 35.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 100, 30 April 1945, Page 6
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