GERMANY’S TRANSPORT
COMPLETELY PARALYSED LONDON, May 23.
Major-general Frank Ross, chief of transportation in the European theatre, told a press conference that the German transport system was completely paralysed, and it would be six to eight months before it was operating on a bare minimum basis. The Rhine could not be cleared of debris and opened for navigation until the late autumn. The French railways were completely knocked out during the invasion campaign, but were now pretty well rehabilitated.
Major-general Ross said: “We do not want to hold any Americans in Germany to do the work Germans ought to do. Therefore, they will be used in every possible way in repairing and restoring the transportation system.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25853, 25 May 1945, Page 5
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