WAR SUPPLIES BY PLANE

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLXI, Issue 15163, 2 October 1942, Page 3

WAR SUPPLIES BY PLANE

FOR CHINA AND RUSSIA United Press Assn.— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, Sept. 30. The Herald-Tribune’s Washington aeronautical correspondent says the Chamber of Commerce has disclosed that war supplies are being shipped to Russia and China by way of Alaska by giant cargo planes. Twenty per cent. of the multiple engine production is at present demoted to cargo planes. The Chamber envisages the extension to so many thousands that air transport will approach parity with wartime shipping. The aeronautical Chamber of Commerce further disclosed that four rapidly expanding sky routes were at present being used to speed up men and equipment all over the globe. Dozens of cargo planes daily were flying to Australia and New Zealand and others via Alaska to Russia and China. The third route was via Iceland and to Britain and the fourth via South America to Egypt. India and tin* South Pacific. Some of the cargo planes in production were new models and others were modifications of existing transport liners. If necessary, the American aircraft industry could build within a few years. 40,000 redesigned cargo planes of the type of the giant Douglas B 19. which would do the work of the entire United Nations’ merchant fleet.