HEARD IN BERLIN
THUNDER OF SOVIET GUNS (Rec. 2 p.m.) LONDON, April 16. With no hint from Moscow, German sources repeatedly to-night declared that the long-expected Russian offensive against Berlin from the central sector was in motion. A Berlin military spokesman announced that the Red army had pushed 12 miles west of the Oder along the main Kustrin-Berlin railway to the Seelow area. The spokesman said: "The Russians have occupied the heights around Seelow, thereby linking up their bridgeheads across the Oder between Kienitz and Lebus."
A German News Agency war reporter said a Russian barrage which opened the new offensive on the Oder front could be heard in Berlin's eastern suburbs.
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Evening Star, Issue 25461, 17 April 1945, Page 5
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