AMERICAN GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 March 1942, Page 3

AMERICAN GENERAL

MADE CHIEF OF STAFF IN CHINA UNDER CHIANG KAI-SHEK. UNITED STATES MISSION TO INDIA. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) WASHINGTON, March 10. It is officially announced in Chungking that Lieutenant-Gen-eral Stillwell has been appointed Ch ief-of-Staff in the China theatre under General Chiang Kai-shek. China and India are exchanging diplomatic representatives of Ministerial rank. Lieutenant-General Stillwell is a former United States military attache at Peking. He arrived at Chungking on March 4 as President Roosevelt’s special envoy to General Chiang Kaishek. General Hsiung Shi-hui, who is a member of the National Military Council, and was formerly Governor of Kiangsi Province, will head a Chinese mission which is to be sent to Washington. The State Department in Washington announced today that the United States mission to India to explore the possibilities of American aid to India’s war effort will be headed by Colonel Louis Johnson, former Assistant Secretary of War. The other members will be Mr Henry Grady, economic and shipping expert, Mr Arthur W. Herrington, president of the Society of Automotive Engineers, and Messrs Harry E. Beyster and Dirk Dekker. Mr Grady’s field will be general economic surveys, and Mr Herrington will specialise in the production of armoured vehicles and other automotive equipment. Mr Beyster is an engineering expert on the organisation of plants for production, and Mr Dekker •is a specialist in training unskilled workers for semi-skilled and skilled occupations.