BERLIN SURROUNDED BY SOVIET ARMIES

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21697, 26 April 1945, Page 5

BERLIN SURROUNDED BY SOVIET ARMIES

STEEL JAWS CLOSE ROUND CITY

ALLIED BOMBERS HAMMER BERCHTESGADEN BASE THREE ARMIES CLOSING ON" HITLER’S REDOUBT BRITISH COLUMNS SMASHING TOWARDS CENTRE OF BREMEN (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (11a.m.) ' LONDON, April 25. Berlin has been surrounded by Soviet armies, according to Orders of the Day issued by Marshal Stalin, who announced that forces under Marshal Zhukov and Marshal Koniev had linked up at a point north-west of Potsdam. British heavy bombers made a heavy attack on the centre of Hitler s national redoubt, Berchtesgaden, and photograph records show 12,0001 b. bombs bursting on the town, the S.S. barracks and Hitler’s mountain refuge. Amercan heavy bombers also struck at the heart of the redoiibt and also the .-Skoda armament works in. Czechoslovakia. : . .v The American Third and Seventh Armies are sweeping on towards Hitler’s last refuge. All Bavaria north of. tlie Danube has been overrun and American armoured columns are with in 15 ihiles of the Austrian frontier and a mile from Regensburg. The Third Army’s columns are 55 miles from Munich and the Seventh Army is expanding fast towards Augsberg. British Second Army divisions are fighting inside Bremen and have reached the factory area. British bu lldozers are clearing paths through the rubble-fallen streets.