| Show w Russians Mass Men Materiel For Out All-Out Winter Drive LONDON Nov 9 UP UP Both Both Moscow and Berlin reported Thursday Thurs Thurs- day that a n scale grand red army winter winter offensive against Germany Is imminent Soviet dispatches said ten teh Rus- Rus rians ians had mas massed d vast forces with I I complete winter equipment from the Arctic to the thc Danube for the final assault on Adolf Adol Hitler's Inner fortress Nazi broadcasts dwelt on Rusian Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian ian preparations for a full-dress full offensive and said it appeared directly directly directly di imminent with the first blows probably to be struck in East Prussia rv In Moscow the communist party organ ergan Pravda said red armies were poised ois d in East Prussia Poland Hungary and Czechoslovakia to strike the final blow v and fulfill Premier Josef Jose Stalin's bolshevik revolution anniversary order to dispose of or the fascist beast in fn his own lair and hoist the flag of or Victory over Berlin The newspaper quo quoted d a a. veteran Don Cossack horseman aa M saying The Germans boasted they would drain the Don river The day is not distant wh when n o our r Cossacks Cossacks Cos Cos- fac sacks will wm water their horses In inthe inthe the Rhine a 1 Temperatures dropped on the e eastern rn front Moscow reported and snowfall increased in many battle areas ares aa u the first blasts of oC h winter brought the traditional red army fighting weather There was every indication from both Moscow and Berlin that the red army had army had used the relative lull to to put its front lines IInes in readiness readiness readiness readi readi- ness for the showdown campaign in the east cast Gen Ivan D D. 3rd White Russian army has been pol poised d along a mile 95 front from 15 11 to 20 miles inside East Prussia for several weeks and a Berlin military spokesman said the Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans had learned that he had promised to renew his offensive in inthe inthe inthe the very next few days Moscow v have re reported reported reported re- re ported only local fighting in East Prussia since forces encountered the fiercest opposition opposition opposition op op- op- op position of or the war as they pushed along both sides of ot the main raIlway railway railway rail raIl- way to Konigsberg capital of oC the outlying German Gennan province The battle for Budapest also slackened off as Marshal Rodion Y Malinovsky sky regrouped his 2nd Ukrainian arm army for a final assault on the Hungarian capital ga gateway way to Germany proper tank battles were re reported reported re- re ported from just outside Budapest to Toka j miles to the northeast northeast north- north east cast where Malinovsky's northern forces were spread along the river for another thrust against I the capital The soviet said the Germans attempts attempted 1 to establish a bridgehead over ver tho the Danube river at Baja 84 miles south of ot Budapest Budapest Budapest Buda Buda- pest but were wiped out after Alter reaching the east bank of or the river Hundreds o of enemy dead filled the river bank after a brief but furious battle Moscow said The Germans meantime apparently apparently nUy were continuing defense preparations Inside tho the city Hungarian Hungarian Hungarian Hun Hun- garian reports reaching Ankara said the central railway station in Budapest was blown up killing kUling many and injuring hundreds The Hungarian nazi government however however however how how- ever warned the city's inhabitants the thc reports said that stations U bridges and telephone exchanges would be blasted if the need arose |
