VIENNA CAPTURED
130,000 PRISONERS TAKEN MONTH’S CAMPAIGN BY RUSSIANS (Rec. 10.20 a.m.) Rugby, April 13. The, Russians have captured Vienna, states an order of the day issued by Marshal Stalin to-night. From March I6th to April 13 130,000 prisoners were taken on the approaches and in the streets of Vienna. A total of 1345 enemy tanks and self-propelled guns as well as 2250 field-guns was destroyed or captured. Russian stormtroops to-day were mopping up the last German defenders in Vienna. More than £OOO Germans who fired from ruined buildings or from behind street barricades have been killed in the past 24 hours. Troops north-east of Vienna occupied a number of places including Essling and Grossenzersdorf. besides a number of other places including the railway station of Eidesvrunn, thus cutting the railway and the highway from Vienna to Brno. To-night’s Soviet communique makes no mention of fighting on the Oder front. The communique says that troops north-east and north of Bratislava captured the town and railway station of Skalica.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 14 April 1945, Page 5
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168VIENNA CAPTURED Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 14 April 1945, Page 5
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