AMERICAN ARMS OUTPUT

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 24020, 7 August 1943, Page 5

AMERICAN ARMS OUTPUT

ALLOCATION TO PACIFIC “ONLY FRACTION OF TOTAL ” (Rec. 8 p.m.) NEW YORK, Aug. (i. "The actual percentage of United Elates war production allotted to the Pacific is only a small part of our total production,” says David Laurence, Washington correspondent of the “New York Sun," "The percentage is so that it the American people . 'new the figures they would ask how ptong it will be before Washington and London realise that we have a major war in the Pacific." he says. “The Public have been given the impression that the war in the Pacific has been stepped up and that more supplies have been sent there. But while this is true, the public does not know how httlc went to the Pacific in the first Place. "The real percentage of our war effort allocated to the Pacific is still only a small fraction of the total. If U were 30 per cent, observers familiar With the Pacific would be overjoyed. In a broadcast on July 27 Elmer Davis said more than half America’s war strength was deployed in the Pacific. The great need in the Pacific is still ior more air power. Even as little as one month’s production of heavy bombers would make a great difference. v ‘lt seems strange that pilots from «ew Zealand and Australia, who Should be used in defending the south ■Pacific, are being sent to Britain, while American pilots are being sent to the south Pacific,’’ the correspondent says. The Japanese lost 40.000 men killed Ofi Guadalcanal a War Department report says. The enemy had 40,000 men Defending Guadalcanal of whom only }'oo escaped. Fewer than 500 were wken prisoner.