COMING ATTACKS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 231, 30 September 1943, Page 5

COMING ATTACKS

SUPPLIESJGIVE HINT QUANTITIES FROM WEST (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) Recd. 7 p.m. Washington, Sept* Hints of next year’s invasion campaigns were given by Lieutenant-Col-one7 Gaud at a War Department conference of industrialists, labour leaders, and newspaper executives. He disclosed that 10 per cent, of miliary lend-lease supplies in 1944 had been earmarked for France, Belgium, Norway and Greece. This year’s lend-lease programme calls for 5,400,000.000 dollars’ worth of supplies, chiefly for Britain, Russia, and China. Lieutenant - Colonel Gaud said that the air forces had done a superb job in maintaining the air route to China but that this method has serious limitations and the Allies “have not been sitting idle waiting for the opening of a land route into China.” He explained that General Stilwell had established a great training camp for Chinese in India. The cargo planes which carry American supplies into China return to India loaded with Chinese soldiers. Some of these Chinese troops are already guarding American army engineers who are building roads, but mostly they will return to China to train other Chinese in the use of modern machinery. Lieutenant-Colonel Gaud said the Russians were now receiving so much equipment by the Persian Gulf route that the transport system was strained. At least on the Russian front, locomotives had become more important than tanks as the Russians were now asking for hundreds of locomotives and 50 per cent, more trucks.