BRESLAU UNDER PRESSURE
WHOLE RIVER LINE AFLAME STALINGRAD VETERANS IN ACTION ■'•. .-■' ■ (Rec. 12.5 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 26.' Reuter's Moscow correspondent says the Russians are making bold efforts to encircle Breslau, the key centre of Silesian industry. The Oder River line south of Breslau to . Oppeln is flaming from end to end under Marshal Koniev's artillery fire. A plum-coloured pall is beginning to settle over Breslau. • The, news that General Rodimstev's Stalingrad Guard veterans, victors of Byelgorod, Poltava, Kremenehug,
Baranov, and Czestochowa, are on the Oder will chill the hearts of many German soldiers. The correspondent added that the Red army south of Oppeln is nearing the notorious German concentration camp of Oswiecim. The German News Agency said Russian shells were bursting on Grieg on the west bank of the Oder, 23 miles south-east of Breslau. It added that the castle and town hall were ablaze. Thousands of women.and children had been evacuated.
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Evening Star, Issue 25394, 27 January 1945, Page 7
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152BRESLAU UNDER PRESSURE Evening Star, Issue 25394, 27 January 1945, Page 7
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