U.S. ARMS FOR EUROPE: FIRST CARGOES
NEW YORK, March 31 (Rec 11 a.m.).—The first shipment of American arms to Italy under the Atlantic Pact programme was loaded on a freighter today. The shipment included 155 millimetre mountain-type howitzers, 57 millimetre anti-tank guns and small arms. Last week four 829 Superfortresses were flown to England, which will receive about 75 of these war-time bombers. Smaller planes have been sent to France, which also will receive a shipload of guns in mid-April. Destroyer escorts and other small ships are being reconditioned for transfer to Pact countries.
Planes, assault craft, trucks, jeeps and communications are on the list for early shipment to Vietnam, to help Emperor Bao Dai in the war against Communist guerrillas, under Moscow-trained Ho-Chi-minh.
Diplomatic quarters said today that Dr Ho was bartering opium and rice for American-made bazookas, mortars and small arms which Chinese Communists seized from Nationalist stocks in South China.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 1 April 1950, Page 5
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