WAR SUPPLIES
HUGE AMOUNT MAY BE ABANDONED
WASHINGTON, April 22.
The United States Under-Secretary for War, Mr. Kenneth C. Royall, stated that he expected more than 1,000,000,000 dollars’ worth of United States surplus supplies in the Pacific would be abandoned because transportation difficulties and rapid deterioration would make their return to America highly unprofitable. In Okinawa and on Iwo Jima the abandonments might total 800,000,000 dollars. Mr. Royall said that the Army had •so far deliberately destroyed 1,160,000,000 dollars’ worth of poison gas, armaments, aircraft, and spoiled- food throughout the world, but he denied that there had been wanton destruction.
The Foreign Liquidation Commissioner. Mr. Thomas McCabe, announced that equipment and supplies valued at 3,521,000,000 dollars had been declared surplus, of which 1,028,000,000 dollars’ worth had been sold for 345,000,000 dollars.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 24 April 1946, Page 7
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