U.S. ARMS ON WAY TO EUROPE AND INDO-CHINA
rlO a.m.) NEW YORK, March 31. The first shipment of American arms to Italy under the Atlantic Pact programme was loaded in a freighter today. The shipment included 155 mm. mountain-type howitzers. 57 mm. antitank guns and small arms. Last week four 82.9 Superfortresses were flown to England which will receive about 75 of these wartime bombers. Smaller planes have been sent to France, which also will receive a shipload of guns in the middle of April. Destroyer escorts and other small ships are being reconditioned for transfer to the pact countries. Planes, assault craft, trucks, jeeps and communications are on the list for early shipment to Viet Nam to hold Emperor Bao Dai in the war against Communist guerrillas under the Moscow-trained Dr. Ho Chi-minh. Diplomatic quarters said today that Dr. Ho was bartering opium and rice for American-made bazookas, mortars and small arms which the Chinese Communists seized from Nationalist stocks in South China.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23218, 1 April 1950, Page 5
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