Show Li r Bruno Brunn CZECHOSLOVAKIA coding K s AUSTRIA V VIENNA J Nitra Bratislava i E er V a r Gyor BUDAPEST o oPapa s' s Papa Mor Lake sf 11 Keck m l l v voh Kf R. R o ld varL HUNGARY Tama i O a or o P oh ROMANIA ROMANIA 0 SO Y STATUTE MILES Sweeping gains made by t the e Russians in their new drive arc shown with the heavy y line the present front dotted line the front when the drive star started d. d Arrows show red pushes to Lake Balaton guarding approaches to Austria and capture of supply center and Tamasi below Lake Balaton Reds Capture 2 Hungary Towns In Smash to o Lake Balaton LONDON Dec 4 Russian jp-Russian UP Russian troops smashed ahead in southwestern Hungary Monday within 72 miles of the Austrian frontier and cracked strong nazi defenses along the Slovakian border with the capture of and A German broadcast early Monday Monday Monday Mon Mon- day said a major Russian force had reached the area of Lake Balaton Balaton Balaton Ba Ba- laton which is 60 miles southwest of Budapest and at some points on the shore only 45 miles from the Austrian border a vital military supply center for German and Hungarian armies fell Sunday to Marshal Rodion Y Malinovsky's Second Ukrainian army elements of which joined with Gen Ivan Fourth Ukrainian army in taking by storm the communications junction junction junction junc junc- tion of 45 miles to the northeast Is 85 miles mlles from Budapest and was bitterly bitterly bitterly bit bit- terly defended by the Germans for several weeks 11 1 11 Mile Advance Ad In the drive west of the Ithe Danube toward the Austrian frontier Marshal Marshal Marshal Mar Mar- Feodor I. I Third Ukraine army captured Tamasi only 21 miles below Lake Balaton in an mile 11 advance and seized in the closest approach to Austria I These forces also drove northward northward northward north north- ward 5 52 5 miles along the west baI bank k of the Danube capturing 43 miles mUes south of Bud Budapest pest in a push to take the Hungarian capital capita fro from the rear i The sweeping w gainS gainy of khin's army engulfed engulf d more than 80 places in a steadily expanding front below Lake Balaton guardian guard guard- ian of strategic approaches to Austria Aus Aus- tria and won for him a mile 36 strangle hold on the Budapest- Budapest Zagreb-Trieste Zagreb railway connecting German defenders of Budapest with nazi forces in Yugoslavia and northern Italy The Russians also were within 36 miles of junction of another major railway line between between between be be- tween Budapest and Zagreb Take Captives In addition to capturing Malinovsky's troops seized Hom- Hom 11 miles to the northeast and the soviet said they took German and Hungarian Hungarian Hungarian Hun Hun- garian prisoners in the fighting along that front from Nov 8 through Saturday The fall of ot strengthened the junction of the two great Russian armies while to the north troops Increased increased increased in In- creased pressure on the Slovakian communications center of Kassa prime objective of the sweep west from 17 miles southeast of Kassa was taken Farther north his troops were within 15 miles s of Kassa even more significant were the triumphs of army which has been advancing at a a rate of or 10 to 20 miles a day south and southwest of Budapest The sustained successes of these forces gave rise to the hopes his drive would soon accomplish the threefold tasks it faced when it breached the Dan Danube be a week ago Storming Budapest from the rear gaining the Austrian border in a astrike astrike astrike strike due west and cutting off es escape escape escape es- es cape routes from the lower Balkans Balkans Balkans Bal Bal- kans b by swinging along the Yugoslav Yugoslav Yugoslav Yugo Yugo- slav frontier toward Zagreb |