RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN
PRESSURE ON BUDAPEST. LObfDON, December 15.
In the battle for Budapest, threequarters of the city is now surrounded by the Red Army. Troops of the 2nd Ukrainian Army are battling for the city. Powerful forces from Marshal Malinovsky’s army are moving through mountains 95 miles northeast of the Hungarian capital in a new drive to force the remaining enemy units in this sector into guerrilla-ridden Czechoslovakia. The main battle here is going on along the Ipoly River, 85 miles east .of Bratislava. German and Hungarian troops in this area will be under a new threat from the east when Marshal Petrov’s 4th Ukrainian Army renews an advance towards the interior of Czechoslovakia.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 December 1944, Page 5
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