TIRELESS ENERGY OF AMERICANS

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 205, 27 May 1944, Page 7

TIRELESS ENERGY OF AMERICANS

New Replacement System (Received May 26, 9 p.m.) WASHINGTON, May 26. The gains scored by American units of the Fifth Army in Italy are attributable to a new policy of pouring continuous replacements into combat divisions, the Secretary of War, Mr. Stimson, disclosed at a Press conference. He said that the Fifth Army’s 60-mile advance from the Gustav Line was the result of the tireless energy of the American troops in the Second Corps whose strength and freshness has been kept up by a new system of immediate replacements. This system, which has also been ap' plied to the French units fighting with the Fifth Army, consists of sending replacements into battle as casualties occur and while the action continues. Thus,, instead of the previous practice of allowing a division to take its losses and then replace it with a new unit, it is maintained constantly at fighting strength. Mr. Stimson added that LieutenantGeneral Jaeob Devers, senior American commander in the Mediterranean, had advised that the gains were made® possible because the troops were able to push forward with a continuous freshness and vigour which they would otherwise not have had.