PIPE LINE TO CHINA
LEND-LEASE UNDERTAKING
(Rec. noon.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. Urging a year’s extension of the Lend-Lease Act which expires on June 30, the Foreign Economics Administrator (Mr Crowley) told the House of Representatives' Foreign Affairs Committee that a 2000-mile Lend-Lease pipe-line is being burrowed into China’s interior to power the Allied air attack against Japan. The pipe-line is being built through combined British, American, Chinese and Indian manpower and resources and will increase many fold the 15,000 tons a month formerly transported over the Burma Road. Mr Crowley said 15,000 American trucks will be delivered to China over the new Ledo Road to establish a new Chinese transport system. One thousand American technicians are in China and 1000 Chinese will be brought to America for training to help China handle the greatly increased volume of Lend-Lease materials moving in.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 60, 8 February 1945, Page 5
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