Show Red Forces Storm Frankfurt Gates Ru Russ s Squeeze City Between Bridgeheads In Move to Open Final Road to Berlin LONDON Feb 9 UP Moscow UP-Moscow Moscow and Berlin reported Friday Friday Fri Fri- day that Russian assault forces were storming Frankfurt from bridgeheads on the west bank of the Oder on both sides of the keystone base 33 miles east of Berlin The fall of Frankfurt would collapse the Oder river defense line before Berlin and bare the capital Itself to frontal assault Marshal Gregory K spearheads across the Oder Odor were probing westward behind an earthshaking earthshaking earthshaking earth- earth shaking bombardment of Russion artillery massed on the east bank of the river Moscow dispatches reported The German high commands command's only reference to the sector before before before be be- fore Berlin said that the Germans succeeded in narrowing down or eliminating by counterattack several several several sev sev- eral enem enemy bridgeheads A supplementary Berlin broadcast broadcast broadcast broad broad- cast reported violent battles both north and south of ot Frankfurt and Moscow dispatches said the nazis were wOre throwing all available strength into an effort to wipe out the soviet footholds which clamped a pincers on the strategic city On either side of the Oder Ber lin un front soviet armies were swinging westward to protect flanks threaten the Baltic port of Stettin and hew out expanding pockets west of at the theOder theOder theOder Oder in Silesia Fight Near Stettin A nazi reported heavy fighting in the area of Py- Py ritz 23 mlles mlle southeast of Stettin Stettin Stet Stet- tin Un and along a line line- eastward t through r 0 ul h the and Deutsche Krone ar areas Berlin BerHn said the Russians opened I powerful attacks s from the Steinau I bridgehead across the Oder northwest northwest northwest north north- west of Breslau and were pushing westward The German command said the Soviets reached the outskirts outskirts outskirts out out- outI I skirts of oC nl Lieg-nl tz big transport center 40 miles west and slightly north of oC Breslau I Eighteen miles north of Frankfurt Frankfurt Frankfurt Frank Frank- furt soviet armored forces fought in the streets of b burning which the n nazis zis said had been encircled encircled encircled en en- circled temporarily by the junction junction junc june tion of Russian bridgeheads across across across' the Oder Await Awalt Announcement A Moscow broadcast hinted at atan atan atan an Impending announcement on the battle of the Oder Odor before Berlin Berlin Berun Ber Ber- lin un by the red army command It said front h had d been wrapped in official silence which usually precedes some big an an- t. t Hard battles on the Oder Odor on Sc-o Sc Pace PaJe Two Column Four Red Forces Storm Frankfurt Gales Gates Continued from P Page Pace One both sides of Frankfurt contain- contain Ernst von yon Hammer nazi military commentator said He reported that the Germans had crushed a soviet bridgehead across the Oder at 43 miles southeast of Berlin but other Russian units gained a firm foothold on the west bank just south of Frankfurt Von Hammer said Marshal Ivan S. S Konev's army was attacking anew from its bridgehead across the Oder at Steinau and had driven to Lueben 40 miles northwest northwest northwest north north- west of Breslau 10 miles southeast of at Lueben fell to the Russians he added He re reported reported reported re- re ported a gigantic battle In the Glogau Breslau triangle Pour Over Oer Oder Swedish refugees who fled Berlin Berlin Berlin Ber Ber- lin to their homeland reported that inh Inhabitants of oC the German capital i expect the red army to reach it within a n week or two More than Berliners have left the city since the Russians arrived at theOder the theOder theOder Oder they said The Tho official German D N B agency said the Russians were pouring tanks into bridgeheads across the Oder still Oder-still still unconfirmed officially by Moscow preparatory Moscow preparatory to a scale large attack on the reich capital Marshal Gregory K swung the northwest wing of his 1st White Russian army toward the Baltic on a br broad ad front in an attempt to seal off a square mile pocket consisting of nia the Polish corridor and Danzig Advancing 15 to 22 miles on a mile 20 20 front tho the 1st army shattered shattered shattered shat shat- the first German defense line before Stettin and the Baltic at a point 40 to 58 miles northeast of Seize Selzo New Towns The line lne had been bas based d on the Deutsch Stettin-Deutsch Krone highway and railway midway between the two Pomeranian strongholds Forward Forward Forward For For- ward units seized Reetz 59 miles from the open Baltic and 41 miles southeast of Stettin Also captured were thin 38 miles southeast of Stettin 10 miles m les southeast of oC Recta Reetz and more than other towns and villages The advance carried to within 19 miles southeast southeast southeast south south- east of Stargard a way 10 railway and highway hub guarding the approaches to Stettin The Russians also were within 36 miles mUes south of Stettin at captured several days ago In Silesia Marshal Ivan S. S Konev's Konev's Konev's Ko Ko- Ko- Ko nev's 1st Ukrainian army expanded expand expand- ed its bridgehead across the Oder river miles southeast of Berlin to square miles |