RAGE FOR BERLIN
GERMANS' DESPERATE PLIGHT
NO HOPE OF RESTORING FRONT
(Rec. 1 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 25. The Russian offensive is developing at such a rate that all Moscow commentators exclude the possibility of the Germans rapidly restoring their front, says Reuter's Moscow correspondent. At any moment Moscow official announcements will bear the significant words: "Our troops, in the Berlin direction, captured . . ."• The sudden surge through /Silesia has now placed Marshal Koniev first in the race for Berlin, but Marshal Zhukov, in the centre, is a close second, and is twisting the extending front so that tonight the two army groups present a tremendous arc from Northwestern Poland to German Silesia. It is in the Zhukov-Koniev combination that the threat to Berlin now lies. Great lines of captives are trailing along the Polish roads from the scenes of the Red army's glorious victories, states ' The Times ' Moscow correspondent. The Polish inhabitants are reported to be demanding their lives, and it is the Russians who have to protect the prisoners from the people's wrath.
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Evening Star, Issue 25393, 26 January 1945, Page 5
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173RAGE FOR BERLIN Evening Star, Issue 25393, 26 January 1945, Page 5
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