SUPPLIES FOR CHINA

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 82, 4 October 1944, Page 6

SUPPLIES FOR CHINA

WHY SHIPMENTS ARE LOW

NEW YORK, October 3. The "New York Herald Tribune's" Washington correspondent says that official quarters have not disputed the Chungking statement that China has received only token assistance from the United States. ..However, it is pointed out that China lacks even a single seaport. . , The, statement. is interpreted as. a reply to recent dispatches from headquarters of the Fourteenth Air Force attributing the reversals in China and the- loss of- airfields to the Chinese army's ineptitude. / Official figures revealed today show that .the Chinese interior forces received 153.584,000 dollars in lend-lease aid to July 1, 1944, or less than onehalf per cent, of total lend-lease exports. The Foreign Economic Administration has declared that except for secret plans which might result from Mr. Donald Nelson's recent mission to China,'only a- slight improvement can be foreseen in the flow of supplies. The air .route" is" how carrying 20,000 tons of-supplies monthly from India and the Ledo Road is expected to'carry about 12,000 tons.

Experts express tho opinion that the only-hope of substantial improvement lies in a military operation opening up a sea .supply route to the coast of East China. 7