PATTON’S ARMY
AUSTRIAN FRONTIER CROSSED London, April 27. General Patton’s armoured columns, pouring deeper into the hinterland of Hitler’s southern redoubt crossed the Austrian frontier at 6 p.m. yesterday ata point under 90 miles from Marshsd Tolbukhin’s troops pushing westwarcT along the Danube Valley. Reuter’s correspondent with the Third Army says the penetration followed a 12-mile spurt south-eastward by the Eleventh Armoured Elision which passed through £Jegenback (a mile west of the Austrian border and nine miles east of Waidkirchen). The drive foreshadows a link-up with the Russians which will, sever communications with Berchtesgaaen. enveloping all German-held Czechoslovakia in a huge new pocket. General Patton's infantry farther to the west captured- Anglostadt crossed the Danube and drove 2 miles southeast to the Munich-Nuremberg road, 10 miles from Munich. The bridgehead cast of Regensburg is now eight miles long and four miles deep. BAD OF PRISONERS London, April 27. The Allies on Wednesday took 34,237 prisoners states a communique from Supreme Headquarters.'
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 28 April 1945, Page 5
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