Strasbourg Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 1, 1944, Strasbourg, Alsace                              Ii 35 four cents september 1944 demobilize via says newspaper article which appeared last week a Scripps i Howard newspapers asserted that thew would decide to reduce the army by a Flat percentage pro by 20 per cont when the germans according to the a Point system will be applied to each individual Points will be accorded Man for major engagements for for being for each child other for each month of ser vices and for each month of service the total number of Points a Anan has accumulated will determine the order in which hell be some officials wish to include the Factor of the essential Ity of a mans Job and release sol Diers who hold key positions in the article pointed that this possibility is improbable since England Lias had Little Luck applying the necessary Man rotation quota doubled Tho rotation quota for the mid dle East command bus been Dou this new War ruling Means that twice As Many men will be returned to the states from this theater every Mouth As for this new policy holds Good for the entire command and is one of several recent rotation develop another is a purely temporary but outstandingly Welcome measure whereby rotated personnel will re turn to the Stales by the a office cautious this is for the time being Bat it certainly should he Good news for1 imminent percentages by Grade with an increasing number of personnel coming under the 22 month eligibility the a office Points out that 22 months overseas Doest necessarily Nenn youre reported for you i Only eligible for health is the first consideration commanding officers will make in choosing personnel for this does not refer to hospitalization which Are returned automatically a separate to men whose health has been weakened by recurring Diso ascus or the officers will make heir choices by percentage of Grade defined by wid in the big news is that while eligibility is not morn men will or going Home every now if Only that irn Vej by air Craft clause holds out for the duration and six lighter is Booby trap France the latest nazi Crea Tion in Booby traps is a cigarette lighter that explodes when the wheel is in the North the British drive to the Channda to air and the launching pits of the robot patrons United states third army streaks across the pushing the taxis toward Luxembourg and this a French negotiating the surinder of German troops hidden in a talks with Owen of a member of a armoured Force driving in the German troops came Handa Over a few own Isenhower reports 5 Days ahead of schedule while the British second army yesterday took Amiens on the 60 Miles from the belgian americans under Patton consolidated their hold on 35 mites front the belgian flying weather was Eisenhower described the Campaign master plan As More than five Days ahead of Router streaking with incredible Speed across the Battle grounds of Tho earlier world belgian and French troops this week sent the germans reeling along Atud hum red mile patrons yanks were reported to have captured Miles from the belgian Berlin conceded the fall of hinge of its coast and reims fell to the allies after an out flanking movement from the West and american columns smashed Over a Hundred Miles East of Paris to within 90 i Miles of the German Border and British fighters Spear headed the drive to the coast to n of Rideaux occupied by Fri yesterdays Fri communique said that French forces of the Interior have occupied army troops push Ett eastward through mine scat tired swinging a salient across the drome River in an Effort to Cut oif the German forces trying to flee american forces waged a fierce Battle wednesday near to at the Confluence of Tho Rhone drome Ganv Wilsons Headquarters described the fighting As casual ties on both United press reported that Tho Hulk of the battered German 19th army is being trapped near Monte 80 Miles South of Tho germans Aro reported abandoning huge numbers of vehicles and equipment in a frantic Effort to filter through the the French forces Are on the West Bank of the Rhone and arc campaigning to Clear the entire Southwest coast of As far As the Spanish mimes has been captured and Pont 2t Miles North of is at the East of the yanks have taken Cagnes Miles Northwest of where Resis see Bordeaux on Page 8 eliminate the sources of the rain of death on their families in South Ern according to British information have now reached such a pitch that houses Aro toeing destroyed or dam aged in England at the rate of some every Twenty four bypass cemeteries units heading toward Luxembourg and Germany proper have reported Only slight resistance As they kept up their Milean Nour Hie americans Are reported by United press to have cleared virtually All Tho areas around Paris see pug 2 and advanced to within a mile of 18 Miles Northwest of the in the chateau thierr Bellau Wood where their fathers helped turn the tide in the last our men bypassed rows of american crosses in an almost unopposed 22 mile Advance from Meaux after crossing the Berlin radio reported the Ameri cans had reached within 94 Miles of Germany at Vitry be Francois in a 37mile Advance from troyes and placed our spearheads at Cou 13 Miles Southeast of at Mon Mirailh and Paris Trie reopen Paris two new York news the York tins and the have reopened Paris Gas Wile gives birth to quads one Dies Plet boys were born sunday a vhf to Charles wife of an army private at Camp the first of the babies died monday night but physicians said that the remaining three boys were doing the quadruplets weighed three pounds each at one of the three remaining was placed under an oxygen i dont know what i am going to do with All those said Lee after the multiple i could hardly believe my husband wanted co shies locks lopped Kansas eight rookies face assault and Battery charges for an incident which occurred while Enro Ute to the Induc Tion Center at fort As the bus wended its Way from civvies life to the eight would be gis were infuriated by the assertions of six self termed conscientious the co shies got for free Impromptu hair executed with pocket russians in soviet Iri a lightning Advance from Are in sight of news that Advance patrols have entered the rumanian capital is expected racing through abandoned de lenses and surrendering russian and tanks have liberated nearly half of East Rumania and have map fur cd the great of sweeping Onward from the Cap tured Oil russian forces Are now converging Oil Bucharest where rumanian holding out i Rutskie the under at tack by the after a spectacular Advance Southwest from also an Oil troops of Malinovsky ii id ukrainian army fought their Way Intia Plesti and captured the Region which fed a liners tottering War machine with on third of its total Oil swept up in the Advance were including an army corps Der and three division Plestis one of russian greatest victories of 4be was scorer by Malinovsky Force which poured through the red armies press toward Bucharest after the capture of the Plesti occupied Buzgau on tuesday and raced 30 Miles in m hours m topple within 30 Miles of outflanked drive toward Bulgaria on the Black sea the Cap Ture of of vhf rumanian Bucharest has removed the last obstacle before the bulgarian 29 Miles and troops of the 3rd army under to Bukhin Are driving towards toward the Border after retreating Swift moving spearheads have pushed into crossing Monlai i passes at two East of captured Fossani at Ditz russian troops smashed into the Long Valley stretching 35 Miles to the Bucharest Budapest further they crossed an other pass near from Static Northern fronts came news that red troops have beaten counterattacks and captured favourable positions Northwest of Warsaw lying East of the on monday Moscow announced that new offensives had been launched in the Baltic and Kim finnish the capture of of cons Tanta and the breakthrough into Transylvania highlighted the week of Victory in which sonet surged through Rumania like a tidal wave and dealt defeat after see Bucharest on Page it