RED ARMY ATTACKS

Grey River Argus, 12 May 1945, Page 5

RED ARMY ATTACKS

CONTINUED AGAINST GERMANS. 200,000 PRISONERS IN 24 HOURS. (Rec. 11.15). LONDON, May 11. There is embittered fighting going on between Russians and Germans in some isolated sectors of Bohemia, says an Associated Press correspondent in Moscow. Russians have thrown in new armour and motor-cycle troops, directed by Stormoviks, to smash last groups of Nazi fanatics, who have broken the surrender terms. Mopping up continues from the Baltic to the Alps. More than two hundred thousand German prisoners have been taken in the past 24j hours. RUSSIAN CLAIM LONDON, May 10 The Germans lost 7,800,000 killed or captured on the Eastern Front in three years, states the Moscow radio. The German war potential was so exhausted that the Allies in creating a second front in the west did not meet the resistance their plans had foreseen. . The powerful Bri-tish-Soviet-American coalition was not born suddenly, but was prepared by the struggle of Soviet diplomacy and far sighted politicians and honest patriots against the short sighted criminal policy of isolationism and appeasement. Ihe soviet Union in the war years established or re-established diplomatic relations with 27 countries, who recognised Russia as .the . main loice which eliminated Hitlerism.