SUPPLY BASE IN INDIA
U.S. Aid For China And Pacific (Rec. 6.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Mar. 3. The Assistant Secretary of State (Mr Sumner Welles) at a press conference to-day indicated that Administration officials are urgently considering measures to help in the defence of India and to establish there a supply base for armies fighting in China and in the Pacific areas. Mr Hoose velt cancelled to-day's press conference. According to a message from New Delhi a military spokesman said that because of the Japanese threat against Rangoon there was a supreme need of supplies for China from India by alternative routes. The Burma Road was not closed, but the lower reaches perhaps were not. working. The section from Lashin was open.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLI, Issue 22213, 5 March 1942, Page 5
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