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Show Big Ships And Little Ships The problem of placing a large Anglo-American Army on the Continent of Europe and keeping it there was recently discussed by Colonel Frank S. Ross, Chief of the Army Service of Supply Transportation Branch, now in London. While we will need a large number of big cargo ships to transport supplies to Europe, it is extremely doubhtful whether dock facilities will exist for them in France or any other place selected for an invasion. In-the first World War, it will be remembered re-membered American and British soldiers landed at friendly ports where facilities were available. In the present war, it is presumed, pre-sumed, that the Germans will destroy facilities along the Coast inorder to hamper any invasion. Consequently, Col. Ross points out that the invasion will require a vast supply of suitable shallow-craft ships to carry the men and equipment to the point of landing. Afterwards, it will require re-quire the same fleet of small ! ships to bring in the forty pounds of suplies that will be needed to i maintain each soldier one day. : For an army of 100,000 men, Col. Ross observies, this means ,u00,000 pounds of supplies a day and most of it will have to be landed from these shallow-draft shallow-draft boats. |