THE GARROTTE

Evening Star, Issue 25471, 30 April 1945, Page 5

THE GARROTTE

Pre»» Association—By Telegraph—Copyright

(Rec. 12.40 p.m.) LONDON, April 29 The Allied forces on the western front are applying violent pressure on all sectors, from the extreme north to the farthest penetration south into Bavaria.

British and American forces all day hammered the staggering Wehrmacht, driving nearer and nearer to both the southern and the northern redoubts, with three columns of Americans across the Austrian border, French troops pounding , into Italy's Maritime Alps, and the British nearirig Hamburg.

Along the east bank of the Elbe the Russians are moving up solidly from Wittenberg, and southward 70 miles, almost to Dresden. The Americans around Torgau, where the original junction was made, are meeting scarcely any opposition. Prospects of a 70-mile link-up, completely strangling the central German positions, seem very bright.

Along the whole southern front the American Seventh and Third Armies are sweeping southward from the Danube, and the German position in what was to have been a southern fortress is hourly becoming more desperate.

Seventh Army troops on the active end of this front hold a 55-mile line from Augsburg to Fussen. The Americans in a great sickle-shaped line are now sweeping eastwards with the spearheads in Munich. The Americans en-

Germany Slowly Strangling

Situation Briefly Reviewed

tered Munich following a 20 miles advance to-day. At any moment they may overrun the Dachau concentration catiip, which is reported to be'already in a state of mutiny.

There are no further signs of unrest in Munich since the Nazis quelled the revolt yesterday, but, according to Swiss correspondents, discipline is vanishing throughout Southern Germany. ( Reuter's correspondent with the Second Army across the Elbe says the British' operation has been a magnificent success. The bridgehead is growing fast with guns, men, ammunition, and supplies ipiling into it. The bridge-, head is four times as broadi as it is long. The British have entered Lauenburg. The Canadians, on the east bank of the Ems River, control virtually the whole Leer, and are within seven miles of Emden. German resistance remains bitterly determined, but, despite this and the snowstorms, good progress is being maintained. The fall of Leer will mean the turning of the last defence line before Emden and Wilhelmshaven.

The Canadians, Poles, and British are closing up against the German lines at the strongpoints of Zwischenahm and Oldenburg. Enemy armour appeared for the' first time on this sector, Mark IV. and Panther, tanks being used. A French communique states that French First Army troops advanced 20 miles to the Austrian Bavarian Alps, entered Weingarten and Leutkirch, and took prisoner six generals in the past four days.