Show Red Troops Within 35 Miles of Austria Border Close In on Budapest From Three Sides LONDON 7 UP fled UP Red army anny vanguards sweeping around lower Lake hake Balaton were within 35 miles of at the Austrian frontier Th Thursday as Berlin BerHn reported a powerful Russian Rus Rus- Russian sian stan offensive closing in on Budapest Buda Buda- Budapest pest from three side sides The Tho gravest threat to the bele beleaguered be be- le Hungarian capital came from s spearheads of Dr Marshal Feodor Feodor Feo Feo- d dor r 1 I. I Third Ukraine army units driving up the west bank of th the Danube The Germans said they had abandoned Eros I only IS 13 miles south of Budapest In the face of the tide of Russian armor which th the ha soviet war Bulletin said sald Wednesday in gains up to 16 miles oV overran 50 places S including Ra Ra- calmas 28 miles south or of th the H Hun Hun- n- n arlan capital Other units of ot Marshal Rodion Rodlon Y 2 Malinovsky's Second Ukraine army arc are entrenched on Csepel l the island that splits the Danube for 30 miles south of ot Budapest with adva advance positions only six miles from the city's outskirts Is only four miles s from the southern tip of the tho island an and anda a a. junction of the two Russian armies appeared imminent There was no confirmation however of ot German Gorman reports that soviet troops from had established d a bridgehead on n the west bank of the D Danube nube just b below low Budapest The Russian made madeno no mention of the German claims of a a renewed off offensive from north of Budapest where red d troops were reported plunging down from rom captured captured cap cap- or Dr from the eastern Budapest suburbs where the soviet soviet soviet so so- viet army has been checked for some ome time Front dispatches to Moscow re reported reported reported re- re ported the furthermost advance ad toward the tho Austrian frontier Th The reported the capture of or Bal Balaton Bereny t n 4 42 miles tr from m the Austrian frontier and a supplement supplement supplement sup sup- asserted t that t the enU entire mile 50 southern shore of ot the lake lak was In Russian hands handa On a 46 mile front In the corridor corn corri dor b between Lake Balaton and the northern Yugoslavian border Tol Tol- bukhin's forces captured 10 fO places registering gains of more than 12 miles These units struck southwest southwest southwest south south- west f from om ta taken en yesterday yesterday yesterday yester yester- day and captured D Darany rany only six miles mUes from Bares a cro crossing sing singon on the river Russians and units of ot Marshal Titos Tito's partisans fighting through I northern Yugoslavia captured th the highway and rail junction of ot Sid 62 miles northwest of Belgrade dc as well as 14 other places in the same area |