SUPPLY SYSTEM
QNE-WAY TO PARIS
flee. 11 a.m. LONDON, August 31. The Americans' drive into the heart of Germany will not be slowed up for want, of a'single piece of equipment, said Major-General Henry Sayler, chief ordnance officer of the United States army in the"European theatre, to cor-: respondents in Paris. He is in France to * survey ordngnce transportation problems. He stated that one-way ■ freight traffic is already operating to Paris, a_nd that empty trucks return l>y a different route in order not to interfere with loaded convoys of trucks. The supply line is 200 miles in length. "The problem changed with the, qpening up of the war. Two American arrriies are burning from 6000 to 7000 tons of petrol a. day. The Allies are. bringing in all this, while the;supply trucks are keeping up with the frontline," '■■ •"'..". '
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 54, 1 September 1944, Page 5
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