Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 18, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                China j a m m in ail out Chaak yanks strike last Jap held areas on six american divisions chopped into the last remaining japanese resistance centers in the Philip on Luzon arid Mindanao Ahtye australian and dutch forces pressed their Conquest of Tarakan Island off of thursday yanks of the 40th division swarmed ashore at Maca Jalar Bay on Mindanao North meeting almost no on Posi thus the Jap Garrison was caught in a huge trap with the 31st division coming up from the infantrymen hacked away at stubborn japanese lines near Davao while the 40th moved southward to capture Del Monte air Centerside of the biggest Pine Apple Plantation of the Pacific except for in bitter fight ing the yanks threw Back note holy Banzai charges in company strength with bayonets and sometimes even with their Jap garrisons throughout Minda Nao were isolated from each other and Cut off from outside Gen eral Macarthur As the result of the new american Landing on the North Balete past Falls on Luzon blood Balete pass finally fell to sixth army Ameri cans of the 25th and 37th divisions last sunday after weeks of bitter the doughboy Are now fighting Down the 80mjle Moun Tain Road leading to the extensive Bagayan Valley of Northern still an enemy Dis patches said the yanks counted enemy dead in the 75foot defile Between towering that toll is expected to mount to the Jap anese dead sealed in a network of caves interlacing the Valley Walls have been the Jap Garrison on estimated at is believed to be fortifying Hill positions in the Central Buk Idon As 90 per cent of the Island was Liber ated and 95 per cent of the popu probably exceeding freed from Jap fighting on the Jap salient near Davao raged As cutoff japs resorted to suicide attacks some combatants rolled into the Tver where at least two yanks held Heads of their enemy under water until they were one japanese ran beneath a cub plane in the Center of the ame rican position and blew himself along with the even Anao land mines defused by yanks were reset and re planted by japanese who stole the american the two divisions were driving and a juncture with 32nd division troops pushing along the Villa verde Trail from uie West just two Miles East of the 43rd division for the final assault tightened the ring around the japs near ipod the dam supplies one third of Manila a Tarakan Island off Borneo australian and dutch troops advanced to the Southern Edge of Oil As the japs resisted on northeastern new tangled spearheads l5e sixth division seized weak moved on to capture Long contested we bypassed earlier by the yanks major japanese Strong Point in northeastern new Japan rocks continued from Page i tempt in military history to lock a maritime nation in a Complete Aerial mine blockade Kyushu and Shikoku which form the Southern end of rocked beneath a two Dav came borne fighter and bomber attack to Admiral this continuous assault was chinese Stop enemy drive on Chihsiang two action areas were spotlighted in this weeks fighting in a general chinese counteroffensive m Western Hunan province Deci sively Defeated the Jap attempt to of run the american bases at in two Days fighting on that Broad front the chinese announced that they had inflicted casualties on the while another were reported m a huh Saap the City of Chenghsien in Che Juan province was from big he the a prediction that raids would soon be hurled against made by it James commander of the eighth air Force which is moving pan of the and to mommies in route to Pacific r in the Transfer of troops from Europe to the alread3r units that have sailed include groups specially trained for Paci Raf squadrons also have been assigned to the Par East and will 30 out with american eighth air Force new Yorktee warm was beneficiary of a life insurance policy taken out by the late president in 1930 Mies East of Chirki Anufrom which the ene my launched his ill fated drive was Back in chinese the Annese estimated that on third of the enemy soldiers who began their March on Chihsiang on apri 9th had been killed or1 a Generalissimo Chiang Waishek m an order of the Day commended the american and chinese air for Ces for their help in smashing the japanese drive in Hunan province Long a Central China Battlefield smashing the Jap drive on Chih i apr and the counterattacks along the entire Hunan province Are but preludes to a general chinese an army Man v chinese enter Soochow the other action area was the who of Soochow Javnich the had entered on fighting is raging in the aty and both sides Are re ported to be suffering heavy Ca for the second time since Foo now was last occupied by the japanese in troops have entered that East China port facing strik ing m the very sector where Japan fears american several columns have reportedly entered the port and advanced to capture an Airfield to the is the Western half of the far East British troops Are thrusting through Southern Burma toward in the Irra Waddy sector West of the Manda Jay Rangoon railway 14th army units cleared the Supply cite of 60 Miles Northwest of Rangoon f  f this week pointed out that May the last for earning credits in the w Point department also made the Norm that the announced score of 80 is an temporary which later Wilt give Way to another critical the Fig ure 85 was chosen so As to set the plan in motion with the Quick est possible All enlisted personnel m ail branches who now have the interim total of 85 or44forwacs Are eligible for if they Are not considered essential the May 1945 deadline is to k 4 a 4 if be the individual gauge whereby the department can measure ail the Only credits which release not so easy for brass Wil Liam director of the special planning division of the War general staff explained the method for releasing officers in the following it is tougher than the plan for enlisted personnel primarily be cause officers have received additional have heavier responsibilities and have developed specialized skills and leadership they must be handled More on individual than a group basis Althou arh officers will an adjusted service rating score based on the same multiples As for enlisted this1 fac Tor will secondary to the crime requirement of military expression military Neces sity As applied to officers Means consideration must be Piven on an individual basis to the relative Utility of an need for his and the availability of assignments which will make the Best use of his capabilities offi cers with lengthy overseas service and Long and hazardous service in combat will receive special consideration for an officers desire to remain in the service at this time will be another Factor to get the return of officers to the states will be controlled by theater who will use the fore omit principles in making their i wish to emphasize that the determination of whether or not an officer is to be released from the As opposed to being returned to the states will be made by the com manding generals of the army air and service forces acting under general supervision of the War other if an officer is declared surplus by his theater he May still he retained if he is needed by any unit of age or wil1 Date will a ionic Tju be for decoration its and Battle participation stars earned prior to that additional credit will be Given for children born on or before May but whose birth was not known to the fatties As the time the scores were after the adjusted service rating cards have been filled number of soldiers with each Point total in every theater will be re ported to the adjutant generals office in where a cer Tain Point total will be established As the critical the present interim one of one critical score will be established for All enlisted men in army ground and service a second will be set for men in army air a to Laird will be calculated1 for the these three separate scores Are designed1 to effect Equality for enlisted personnel in the varying branches of it will take about six weeks be fore these scores can be commuted and with the 85 total As a working the we Means immediate business for its As the weeks discharge news no Holdup of 42s Washington also pointed out the carrying out of the program not affect the continued re lease of enlisted men Over which started discharge of these men will continue without regards to other a preliminary Survey on the basis of a on sixth of the army indicates that All but two percent of the men to be re leased will be men who have served overseas and two per cent will be fathers who have in the army a Long significance of this figure is clearer when you consider that 68 men out of every Hundred now serving in the army have served whereas 98 out of every Hundred to be returned to life will be overseas asked How Well the system will succeed in providing preferential treatment for men with combat of the we special plan Ning replied men who have been in combat constitute 35 per cent of the but 73 per cent of the men who get out will be from this put another men combat experience make up a Little Over on third of the a inv but constitute nearly three quarters of the number to be fathers represent it per cent of the army and 26 per cent of the group returning to in other one Soldier out of five is a father but one Man in every four to be sent Home will be a since we did riot begin drafting fathers until the War was Well and the general it is apparent that our system is v w o j o vc1i1 1o operating heavily in their boat surrenders at Cape  Northern ire land sir Max command ing Britain Western approaches said that 35 of the estimated total of of to 70 German boats afloat have surrendered to the British approximately 550 Large German boats there sunk by the allies during the War and the germans Nad Only two major plus about too Large submarines and 50 midget subs operational at the time of it was revealed most of them apparently n the chalked in is first German submarine liken in the Atlantic since the germans capitulated when the credited with sinking 16 Allied vessels turned up at Hajje to sur the 240foot sub had been at sea eight three other subs have Given up to american naval forces operating out of new an american naval spokesman said while most German subs Are carrying out surrender instruct any boat sighted that not comply with orders and Indi Cates hostile action will be Des the surrendered boat Fleet will be naval circles in Lon Don because the allies have no need of enemy submarines and because their use against would be a breach of russian Neu they pointed out that the boats now giving up Are United nations Booty and that their final disposition will be a matter for the the United nations As a 480 Hun ships found Paris at least 480 per haps half of them damaged have been found in German ports surrendered to the sheaf the included the liners Europa in relatively Good the a total and two Cruz s6iu tie Kilpper found sabotaged m her Dock at and the stranded and burned out