| Show I Red Army Enters I Suburbs in I Drive on Odessa By Eddy Gilmore MOSCOW April 6 IP tf Russian storm troops p pushed shed into the o out outlying t- t lying suburbs of of Odessa Thursday and the roar of battle echoed throughout the city General Rodion Y cavalry and light tanks drove on the great Black sea p port rt from three r I nt qi patches said po which Wednesday night were only nine nine railed mlle from froin the heart of the metropolis The right flank of Malinovsky's Third Ukrainian army pushed through the quagmires west of th the city heading for the Ovi Odessa dopol spur railway the railway the last remaining remaining remaining re re- re- re escape route to Rumania for the defenders of Odessa the dispatches added Even if the trapped Germans and Rumanians succeed in reachIng reaching reaching reach reach- ing they must still make the hazardous trip by ferry to Akkerman and thence by a winding winding winding wind wind- ing track single-track railway to Rumania Ru Ru- mania Malinovsky's cavalry and tanks had cut off the main escape route to Rumania by capturing naya 38 miles mUes northwest of Odessa Odes Odes- sa and then pressing southwestward southwestward southwestward southwest- southwest ward to take Strassburg which commands a side road from Odessa Odes Odes- sa to on the lower ter ten river If previous German Gennan practice has been followed commanders of the aXis aids forces in the Odessa area probably have already deserted their men and equipment and have been taken out by ship and plane Four red army pushes are being aimed at the heart of Odessa but Continued Column T rg on R rare live Five Two Reds Enter Suburbs of Odessa 1 Hurl Way 3 Attack Att ck on Port 1 Continued from Iron Page PI-g. One On the units which are closest to the city appear to be be- advancing down the banks of Lake from the captured rail station of Kubanka 14 miles away A Red Star dispatch said recent heavy rains have complicated ground conditions but that Malinovsky's Malinovsky's Mal Mal- cavalry and light tanks are solving that problem It re reported reported reported re- re ported U that at big forces of Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans are are tied up in the direction of Odessa and that violent fighting fighting fighting fight fight- ing is Js raging on the approaches to the city Northwest of Odessa where the Russians have encircled German and Rumanian groups in the area and in the city of the merciless battle for their extermination extermination extermination ex ex- termination has reached new fury with the end of the blizzard which has been sweeping southern Russia Russia Russia Rus Rus- sia for three days and nights A dispatch from Major Mikhail to Red Star said the Germans Jost ost 1000 dead and 20 tanks in their first big attempt to break out of the trap to the west and north yesterday and a a. second effort cost them even more dead The Russians were said to be seizing one street after another in killing a large number number number num num- ber of Germans while others threw down their arms At Junkers transport planes were reported making numerous numerous numerous nu nu- nu- nu trips in attempts to evacuate evacuate evacuate evac evac- nazis trapped in that sector west of Mik- Mik dispatch said and 11 of them have been shot down within the past 24 hours |
