Strasbourg Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 27, 1945, Strasbourg, Alsace                              I 30 Cairo four cents july 1945 dear to fhe hearts of Many amet Gas sure to recall memories of luxurious Days at sea with nothing to do but eat and Steep after a is this photo of the uss West As the old tub noses her Way into a slip in the North new on this trip she brought Homo More than vets As Well As 33 Jap for internment in Tho Only pointers eligible for temporary duty in the states for amet personnel is again to be authorized under a directive to be sent to the commands to apply you must Havethe interim critical score or 85 for enlisted men and 44 for enlisted you must Volunteer for continued service and not be considered when the War department announces the new critical that will la the cose of officers Only those with Over the same critical score who desire to remain in service will be Only 20 men a month arc being authorized for the 45day scheme throughout the theater instead of the 200 per month allowed when the same plan was in operation before be the quota for the various com mands within amet has been broken Down As follows amet mesh cd Etc Nash 1 air Sac 1 every 3 months 6 per month 2 per month 2 every 3 months 4 per month 2 per month 5 per month critical score in few Washington soldiers with slightly less than 85 Points Are expected to become eligible for Dis charge a few declares the United reporting that a War department spokesman had said the revision of the critical discharge total will to made be fore the end of the Many vets with Over 85 Points who were returned to this country months ago Are com bitterly that the army wont release Over Point men in Camps Here Are rated non essential but there unable to get discharges and Are resentful of others with a surplus of Points arc quoted by up As saying their commanding officers will not de Clare them nonessential because of personal prejudices or because they Hope to keep up a big the army answer to these charges is that five chief barriers Are in the Way the time required to Transfer men from one service to to Supply to train them and give furloughs and a Lack of shipping deny charge that Britain int pulling weight against Japan Detroit the British going to hold up their end of the War on matter which party wins the National elections lord said this week in personal letter to John publisher of the Detroit free press and Sev eral other have no intention of reserving the defeat of Japan to the said Beaverbrook who publishes the London daily sex his message was in answer to an open letter by Knight july the american publishers letter had cited two facts which he said were Cav Ising ant British feeling in the knowledge that British forces in France and Germany were smaller than the belief that Britain is not making an fallout Effort on the first Point Beaverbrook said casualty figures in Northwest Europe from Day to be Day show that the United kingdom did not Bear less than her just arid proper share of the labor and suf Fering of the there were British and Canadian casualties and turning to the air he said the bomber command of the Raf dropped tons on Northwest Europe White the 8th and 9th air forces dropped answering the second Beaverbrook said that three fourths of the troops in the Burma Campaign were British and that they must be recognized for a Swift and victorious Jungle Campaign just As the australians must be Given credit for their valor in Solomons and Battle for life the condition of James Newman who contracted tuberculosis and other diseases during three years in a tap prison Camp is critical but he was still living wednes Day under an oxygen 92pound survivor of the Bataan March of has received More than letters from All parts of the nation encouraging him in his Battle for when he was sent Home from an army Hospital in new Mexico on july doctors said he could live no longer than 48 but his indomitable spirit kept him alive and his family reported that he still has fight left in in he told his father he had set himself a if he he want to be come a Mew air army paper raps excessive Chicken London a criticism of army Chicken was made last week by stars and stripes which noted there Are indications in some areas pos combat tightening up of discipline is beyond the Point of reasonable asserting that the i is not a professional but a the editorial because he is a civilian at heart and because b is both reasonable and the american Soldier is Quick 10 detect the difference Between necessary discipline and whimsical or quixotic As the paper reported the spectacle of tens of thousands of american officers and men vigorously saluting each other up find Clown the champs Mosees in labor scores decisive win London British voters Given the labor party a resounding mandate in the form of a Clear majority in the House of with remits already for 526 our of the labor party received 332 scats against the con Liberal and other parties split the remaining 31 in the sweeping of inc Churchill conservative Churchill and1 Anthony Eden retained their seats in 100 Lor vets veterans of this War will a Cash Bemis of under a legislative act completed with the signature of tax minded observers figure that it is not All velvet for veterans because the measure levies additional taxes on various including liquor and cig Arele for a period of six the Grant will Cost an estimated in again every american plane from fighter to super fort has kept up 3week hammering of bringing virtually the whole Asiatic Empire under bomb sights in an Aeria Nival assault which Halsey proclaimed As the opening of the final plunge into Tho heart of in coordinated attacks on japans great kure naval base and at Shikoku Island american and British Carrie planes heavily damaged 3 Jap 5 aircraft carriers and 6 i l l i bombs and shells were into the Tokyo area within sight of the Imperial Palace for three the Industrial centers of Osaka and Nagoya wore blasted with tons of wide Range blows also landed on chichi Jirina in Tho boning and on Para Ushiro in the these weave some of the results As the powerful third Fleet prowled off the shores of Japan striking planes and Tokyo the roaming p and Down the Mainland As reconnaissance in Force to teat japanese air Power and to pick out Likely Landing Point for invasion May Como sooner than during Halsey two weeks of 791 surface Craft and 590 planes in japans Aea air forces were destroyed or a in one daring a Force of destroyers knifed into Tokyo pay and sunk a four ship about Carrier planet swarmed Over kure and the Inland of Honshu located hiding enemy warships and Dove to attack through intense Tackack fire and the first aggressive fighter interception in two Weeton of there was reported at least one direct hit with a bomb on a War during the shelling Halsey told newsmen he yearns for a Fleet with wheels so we chaos Tho paps Inland after we drive them from the he explained that naval warfare had entered new phase heading for the final the Allied team is working with Speed and devastating Halsey and if the nips do not know they Are a doomed nation there even stupider than t think they meanwhile armadas of b293 were soaring out of the Marianas and Over japans vital cities in coordination with the three Oil former William wounded twice in Battle and discharged from the hardly had time to break in his old bedroom dippers before he was drafted As a a Short time after he posed for the above photo with his he was getting a refresher course in Basic training at Camp press 3 to resume tasks today after on Day recess Potsdam president Truman reviewed american troops in Frankfurt during the on Day recess of the big three Parley while prime minister Churchill and opposition Jeader Clement Attlee were in Lon Don for announcement of the Bri Tish election the president flew to the United states Headquarters in the morn ing and was accompanied on his inspection by they were expected to return Here this whatever the outcome of the British Churchill and Attlee Are expected to return to probably in the event of a conservative party Victory at the British Churchill and Anthony Eden will retain their present roles As prime minister and foreign i should the labor party win control of the House of com Attlee will return As prime minister with his Choice of foreign Truman at Flag raising officially the big three have revealed nothing about their their news has simply been state ments that they had least seven times during the week As a Trio and various other times in the roles of luncheon or dinner hosts or president Truman was quoted see Bio three on Page 2 blast kills 24 Gas destroys Italy re club Rome Twenty four sol Diers were killed and 48 injured last week when a store of German Teller mines exploded at via Reg Gio and nearly demolished an Ain Ercan red Cross club in the next the victims were soldiers of the Allegro division or attached the injured and nine of the victims were in the red Cross club when the blast twelve italians were killed and eight others see Jap Fleet on Page 2 Washington combat casualties reported by the armed since Pearl Harbor have reached the total includes dead wounded missing and prisoners of the army lists casual the breakdown shows 447 killed wounded 303 missing and the Navy reports casualties As of july the includes dead wounded missing and prisoners of undersecretary of War Robert Patterson revealed that the Philippines which extended from the Leyte landings last october until july Cost the he also reported that the army Okinawa casualties through july 7 were including killed wounded and 236