Salt Lake Telegram | 1944-11-11 | Page 2 | Russians Open Flanking Drives in Threat to by-Pass Budapest

I Russians Open Flanking Drives In Threat to pass By-pass Budapest MOSCOW V Nov 11 CP JP-A JP A wide outflanking movement took shape on two sides of Budapest Saturday while the main Russian Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian forces holding the city under siege clung to their positions in the capitals capital's southern suburbs against desperate nazi counter counter- attacks One group of oC Marshal Rodion Radion Y Malinovsky's Second Ukraine army edged westward from the wide river bridgehead capturing additional strong trong points northeast of oC Budapest and strengthened their hold on the vital Budapest- Budapest railroad Oth Other r Russian units and Yugoslav Yugoslav Yugoslav Yugo Yugo- slav partisan troops of oC Marshal Tito pushed forward west of the Danube river In a drive up through southern Hungary aimed at Pees The outflanking movements developed developed developed de de- de- de attacks on German and Hungarian positions over a a. mile front either end of ot which can turn Into a serious passing by-passing of Budapest Malinovsky's ky's t troops r roo o 0 p s Friday breached the Budapest line at 65 miles mUes northeast of Budapest Slogging onward In ln heavy mud the Russian infantry added eight villages and one railway station to the soviet salient stretching from the Ute upper river to the base of the Matra mountains Moscow Moscow Mos Mos- os- os cow announced This sector where the only es essential essential essential es- es changes of the Ute entire ea eastern east east- tern t- t em ern front were reported in the thelast thelast thelast last 21 hours was a steadily growIng growing growing grow grow- ing menace to the rear of oC the German German German Ger Ger- man and Hungarian forces still strung out some 40 miles mUes east and northeast of ot Budapest itself was threatened by the Russians with the capture of ot four miles to the southwest and two miles from the railway which skirts the Matra mountains The Second Ukrainian army group capturing 1100 prisoners Inthe Inthe in inthe the last 48 hours raised H its total bag of prisoners to more than since Oct 6 when the in invasion invasion in in- of Hungary began Moscow said The soviet bulletin said the Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans were constantly reinforcing their troops on the southern approaches approaches approaches ap ap- ap- ap to Budapest in an effort to hold that gateway city on the road to Austria The increased number of oC prisoners prisoners prisoners pris pris- being t taken ken was considered in Moscow an indication of ot the spread of defeatism in the HungarIan Hungarian Hungarian Hun Hun- garian ranks