INVASION PLANS

Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22155, 29 September 1943, Page 3

INVASION PLANS

NEXT YEAR’S CAMPAIGNS ASSISTANCE FOR RUSSIA TRAINING OF CHINESE (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Sept. 28, 11 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 Hints oi next year’s invasion camoaigns were given by LieutenantColonel Gaud at a War Department conference of industrialists, Labour leaders and newspaper executives, when he disclosed that 10 per cent of the military lend-lease aid in 1944 had been ear-marked for France, Belgium, Norway and Greece. This year’s lend-lease programme calls lor 5,400,000,000 dollars worth of supplies, chiefly for Britain, Russia and China. L ieutenant-Colonel Gaud said the air force had done a superb job in maintaining the air route to China, but this method has serious limitations and the Allies have not been sitting idle waiting for the opening of a land route into China. Lieutenant-Colonel Gaud explained that General Stillwell has established in India a great training camp for the Chinese. Cargo planes, which carry American supplies into China, return to India loaded with Chinere soldiers. Some cf these Chinese troops are already guarding the American army engineers who are building roads, but mostly they will return to China and train other Chinese in the use of modern machinery. Lieutenant-Colonel Gaud said the Russians are now receiving so much equipment that the Persian Gulf route transport system is strained. At least on the Russian front locomotives have become more important than tanks, as the Russians are now asking for hundreds of locomotives and 50 per cent more trucks.