Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 08, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d Azur                                The stars and stripes 1 May 1 a Lye War for others following nip  the War explaining redeployment arid partial will take place in the army after our army is now under an approved plan we Are engaged in working toward an army strength of a year from will give us All the strength we believe we can deploy effectively against our Best is that we can defeat Japan quickly and completely with an army which a year from now should be the japanese have a military Force of More than and Many millions More men who can be utilized for service forces or for combat if need but the japanese forces Are some Are in the Home some in some in they have remnants of garrisons in Many parts of the Pacific and East in overseas duty for All every physically fit Soldier in the who has not yet served Over seas will be assigned 10 foreign duty when he completes uts training if he is performing an essential administrative or service function As soon As he can be replaced by a re turning Veteran moving our forces from Europe to the Pacific involves the greatest transportation problem that has Ever been undertaken in War Dis Tances Are tremendous prom eur Ope to by Way of is Miles from san Francisco to Manila is Miles Speed is essential for it is vitally important that we do not give the enemy time either to rest or to reorganize his consequently Many troops will go straight from Europe to the War against Japan As Many As can be taken through the u without reducing our pressure on the ene my will be brought through this country and be Given furloughs in route the need is particularly great for service troops to build Communia bases and airfields essential to the sharply expanded combat operation Many of the service troops will have to go direct to the Pacific to prepare the Way for full application of our ground and air strength half go through More than Naif of the men to go to the Pacific will go by Way of the the proportion will be substantially lower than that among service units attached to air and ground and higher among combat the great bulk of the combat units will be staged through the 8 a preliminary Survey Indi Cates that All but two percent of the men to be released will be men who Nave served overseas and that these two percent will be fathers who have been in the army a Long about half of the men who will be eligible for release from the army due to Long and arduous service Are now in and about one third Are in the Pacific most of the others Are now in this having been re turned under rotation after serv ing full Tours of duty overseas in the last it took a year to bring Back the men in the ref with no problem to meet in the save for a Small Force in today we have the prob Lem of moving out of Europe almost double that a Large number of whom must be transported Over Miles of Ocean to the far reaches of the Pacific Pacific has priority we have about 70 combat Divi Euins in Europe at the present time exclusive of hundreds of thou of combat troops assigned to corps an armies and a huge Force of Supply and service it takes 15 Liberty ships to the equipment of a single armoured division it takes 75 trains to move t to a that gives you some Dea of the transportation problem we Are up first priority must be Given to troops and equipment going to the Pacific if we Are to win that War n the shortest time and with the smallest Cost in demobilization will pro Reed at the same time As redeploy ment although it will be necessarily secondary in terms of every ship that can be pressed into service from any Quarter will be there will be 800 transport planes assigned to this fifty thousand men a month will be brought Back to this coun try by to the maximum possible extent these planes will bring men from combat troops in the very heart of men with the longest periods of combat service and most Remote from this process will begin promptly after Germany is deaths decline at Buchenwald Buchenwald concentration May rate among the political prisoner patients at this Camp has dropped from approximately 100 to about 15 a Day under medical super according to John first army More than 90 civilian doctors of every headed by or Victor czechoslovakian sur do most of the medical and surgical some of Europe most noted physicians were imprisoned the staff is directed by col Abner of minnea a disinfecting team directed by Philipp an imprisoned German is delousing the some 60 cases of typhus were discovered and were brought quickly under control about inmates still remain in the including those who Are about half Are russian and Ezra Pound seized May 7 Ezra american poet who has been broadcasting italian fascist propaganda from Rome for the past several has been Cap tured in it was Learned Pound was one of eight americans indicted for treason by the government in the War ended for these three German yachts when the seventh army got in their they Are sitting on ammunition boxes await ing transportation to quarters in a captured military nazi armament control asked san May 7 France and Czechoslovakia advocate establishment of International control Over All great armament industries and total elimination of Krupp and other German arms we must maintain a steady control or we will have another world Jan czechoslovak foreign minister and chairman of his country delegation at the United nations told a Rene French minister of demanded that the United nations order destruction of All German arms factories and forbid reconstruction of the Krupp plants the International control proposal also would apply to plants in Czechoslovakia and Moravia and the Schneider Plant at be in Paris the foreign affairs committee disclosed that it has recommended to the Parent French consultative Assembly that an International mandate be created for the the committee also called on the French provisional government to negotiate with the allies for French control of the Saar Coal mines and miners to operate Burma troops supplied by air May 7 14th army 700mile drive through Central which resulted in liberation of was the first time in history that an entire army received All of its supplies by air while on the Raf and Craf Crews of Eastern air commands combat cargo task Force daily dropped tons of Joe Wkho stated machine yams May 7 his heroism during the Battle of the belgian bulge last Christmas Day has won the congressional medal Honor for Paul Wiedorfer of tiie nations highest military award is being presented to the 80th it was announced for his feat in wiping out two German machine gun nests which had halted the Advance of his platoon near Chau a 24yearold former Baltimore Utility company employee set out alone across a Snow cover open and despite heavy enemy machine gun and Rifle fire completed his he eliminated the nazi position by tossing a grenade from 10 Yards out am then finishing off the Crew with his British second Koch 79 German divisions May 7 Twenty seven British and ame rican divisions which fought under command of the British second army liberated Square Miles of conquered Square Miles of Ger Many and destroyed 79 German sir Miles Dempsey men opened Miles of constructed 76 airfields and built 677 cemetery fails to yield Hitler May 7 courtyard of hitlers chancellery in Berlin gave us bodies of Many general staff leading stormtroopers and other but not the Corpse of red Star said there is a terrific Corpse Hunt on for Hitler and who the German com Manders in Berlin continue to in Sist killed themselves in the last moments of the Fate of Hiuer will not be hidden the quoted pravda As soon the veil will be lifted and the myth about the heroic death of Hitler will be in the Imperial chancellery Annex where Hitler had built his red Star the Halls Are full of Brick spilled cases of nazi medals and unfurled was Iron crosses by the handful Are scattered about like Reich defeat blamed on 3 big delusion by Edward United press staff writer the ardennes offensive started the final decline of nazi germans and prisoners of War became very expert at Reading be tween the lines of and by Christmas it already was apparent that something was pretty Rotten about the Mammoth drive into by new years the germans suspected Ano ther army had gone West for the Sake of hitlers which Al ready had Cost them Al Tunisia and a Down other last the Feld Webel top sergeant of my Camp went around proclaiming that the Reich had been be fouled since 1933 and did any thing to Stop him sixty Earold men in the Berlin suburban Volks sent East beginning 24 armed with a bottle of ersatz Coffee and a few shreds of came Home again a few Days later in Many cases when the allies swarmed across the Rhine at will and ate up whole provinces each Germany first reaction was one of Complete then suddenly came an apathetic Hope that maybe the americans and British would arrive before the one forlorn Hope nobody has been talking secret weapons or anything similar for weeks nobody has cared where Hitler the Lucke Walde Camp guards assured me a week before their sudden Panicky night that they would Only fire a Token then if it Ever came to a question of the Only thing which remained was the forlorn Hope in the West Ern it is no longer a Hope that they May suddenly emerge As Saviours of Europe from com idea which scores of prison Camp commanders had tried to Spring on British and american prisoners nowadays it is just the last Des Perate Hope for physical salvation by a nation which is now just a mob of terror Defeated Elbe divides ninth and reds with ninth May 7 of american troops toward the previously selected line of demarcation Between them and the russians has the first step consists of evacuation of americans from their Elbe River making the River the temporary line Between the two army officials had said the division line would be farther West 4 million pcs pose problem May 7 lacking a precedent in Law or modern Allied officials to Day sought an answer to the ques Tion of what to do about germans captured by Anglo Ameri can Geneva convention regulations require that nations shelter and clothe prisoners until they Are returned to the care of their own authorities Point Germany is being crushed so completely that it prob ably will not have a competent government for a Long there apparently is Little doubt that most of the captive germans will be eating american food and need american care for some Allied military quarters Are considering two choices Dis arming the German prisoners and turning them out to pasture in chaotic Germany retain ing them in Allied Camps until some order is restored in the either it appears that the German troops in prison Camps in the will remain there indefinitely they Are needed to the manpower shortage