LEND-LEASE ACT

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21633, 9 February 1945, Page 6

LEND-LEASE ACT

EXTENSION URGED CHINA SUPPLY LINE DOMINIONS 7 " PRODUCE (9 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. Urging a year’s extension of the Lend-Lease Act, which expires on June 30, the Foreign Economies Administrator, Mr. L. T. Crowley, told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that a 2000-mile lend-lease pipeline was being burrowed into China’s interior to power the Allied air attack against Japan. The pipeline is being built through combined British, American, Chinese and Indian man-power and resources will increase many times over the 15,000 tons a month formerly transported over the Burma Road.

Mr. Crowley said 15,000 American trucks would be delivered to China ever the new Ledo road to establish a new Chinese transport system. A thousand American technicians were i.i China and 1000 Chinese would be i rouglit to America for training to 1 elp China to handle the greatly int reasccl volume of lend-lease matei ials moving in.

Mr. Crowley mentioned that reverse lend-lease was coming from Britain to America at the rate of 2,500,000,000 dollars a year.

Representative Wadsworth described as remarkable Mr. Crowley’s statement that Australia and New Zealand were furnishing 90 per cent of the ioocl for the American forces in the

mill and central Pacific under reuse lend-lease.