FAR EAST D-DAY
ALLIED STRENGTH
SUPPLIES FOR INDIA
EQUIPMENT POURS IN
(1 -p.m.) LONDON. July fi. India is experiencing the same feeling that big operations are impending as southern England before D-day, says Reuter’s correspondent in Calcutta. Thousands of tons of new equipment and weapons are moving in from Europe. A great air and seaborne caravan GOJO miles long -is bringing war material from British ports to Admiral Lord Louis-Mount-batten’s bases. Shoulder flashes winch were familiar from Normandy, to .the Rhine are now appearing there.. , Admiral Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander, South-east Asia, has sent a message to Marshal Cninrig-Kai-Shek on the occasion of the “double-seventh” —the anniversary of Japanese aggression against China on the seventh day of the seventh month, 1937 —says a Kandy correspondent. Admiral Mcuntbatten states: “I wish to pay a tribute to tiie fighting forces and civil population of your great country for their incomparable struggle against our common enemy from the time China stood alone until to-day when victory is in sight."
General Garton do Wiat. Mr. Churchill’s personal representative in China, paid a similar tribute.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21759, 7 July 1945, Page 5
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