Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 8, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               Liln sight any one of 250.000 Osers in the Cio will Tell you. The Days drag life seems More drab than of under draw Era and the Chicken which Onoe would have been Dommi with a shrug assumes enormous proportions. Perhaps to might be somewhat easier for these a delayed in route Quot men if some of the big reasons for the delay in their discharges were marshalled together. The Pacific is the key Case it from no less an authority than army chief of staff Gen. George c. Marshall. Pacific needs not Only regulate the flow of men and supplies from the Eton affecting today s 85ers�?but developments in the far Eastern theater during the next few months will also determine How soon the ban can be lowered for men with feebler scores. In the july Issue of the Amoros Martaine. Gen. Brehon somervell who. As commander of the Anny service forces direct the greatest Supply system in the history of Man. Lets his hair Down to Tell the Home front some of the Gigantic problems facing him. Gen. Somervell goes Back three or four years to recall How the task of invading Germany from 3.500 a Dies away was considered a military impossibility and How Hitler ridiculed the idea. Well it was done but. Stupendous As the operation was. The general and his logistic experts say the task is dwarfed by the or that is ahead in the Pacific to invade the Nome islands of Joa. And. Or. The continent of Asia in sufficient Force to ensure Success the . Has to shift much of its military might in Europe Naif Way around the world. To get an idea what this Means remember that it u 14.000 Miles by sea from Germany to the philippine Island of Luzon. This is More Lhasa four times the distance the ref had to go in building up for the invasion of Europe. The round trip from France to Luzon takes a Convoy of Liberty Shif about five months and it has to hurry even to do that. Re vie moving of millions of men and their the e commander a a thief disclosed a phase of the military policy for the defeat of Japan directly relevant to the demobilization problem that of a applying relentless and increasing pressure to the enemy by sea and on land so that he cannot rest reorganize or regroup his battered forces or dwindling supplies to meet our next attack one thing mat the army wants to to amp it permanently to rest is the Rumor that it is planning to eliminate part of the ship Ping problem by sending new equipment direct from uj3. Factories and leaving most of the american Materiel now in Europe where it is. On the contrary the army is Quot vhf to Transfer to the Pacific every