LEND-LEASE AID
China-Burma-India War Theatre , (Received July 17, 11.55 p.m.) YVAiSHIINGTON, July T<. Nearly 1400 million dollars’ worth ot lend-lease materials were shipped to the China-ißurma-India theatre up to May 1, 1944, said Mr. Crowley,, head of the Foreign Economic Adfninistration. Threequarters of it consisted of military equipment, planes, tanks and guns for the Chinese, British and Indian forces. Mr. Crowley cited the construction of SuperFortress bases in India and China as examples of reverse lend-lease. The New York Herald-Tribune’s Washington correspondent says that, the announcement was apparently designed ,to offset a trend of doubt regarding Alllie,d military efforts iu the China-Burma-India theatre.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 249, 18 July 1944, Page 5
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103LEND-LEASE AID Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 249, 18 July 1944, Page 5
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