SUPPLIES FOR WEST

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 4, 30 September 1943, Page 5

SUPPLIES FOR WEST

Hint Of Coming Attacks WASHINGTON. September 27. Hints of next year’s . invasion campaigns were given by Lieutenant-Colonel Gaud at a War Department conference of industrialists, labour leaders, aud newspaper executives. He disclosed that 10 per cent, of military lend-lease supplies in 1944 had been earmarked for .1 rance, Belgium, Norway and Greece. This year’s lend-lease programme calls for 5,400,000,000 dollars’ worth of supplies, chiefly for Britain, Russia and China. Colonel Gaud said that the air forces had done a superb job in maintaining the air route to China, but that this method has serious limitations and the Allies “have not been sitting idle waiting for the opening of a land route into that General Stilwell had established a great training camp Lor Chinese in India. The cargo planes whicn carry American supplies into China return to India loaded with Chinese soldiers. Some of these Chinese troops are already guarding American Army engineers who are building roads, but mostly they will return to China to train other Chinese in the use of modern machinery. Colonel Gaud said the Russians were now receiving so much equipment by the Persian Gulf route that the transport systom was strained. At least on . the Kussian front, locomotives had become more important than tanks as the Russians were now asking for hundreds of locomotives and 50 per cent, more trucks.