AID FOR CHINA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 February 1943, Page 3

AID FOR CHINA

NEW PLANS TO OPERATE AT ONCE SPEEDING UP SUPPLIES. EXPANSION OF AIR TRANSPORT (By Telegraph—Pness Association —Copyright) LONDON, February 14. China will benefit immediately from Far Eastern conferences at x which for months past the problem of how best to supply China by air till the Burma Road is reopened have been given continuous study, says the Bombay correspondent of the “Daily Mail.” The plans which experts have worked out will operate immediately. Another result of the conferences will be the speeding up of supplies to British and Indian troops fighting the Japanese in the wild Arakan country, where the problems of supply and communication grow more difficult as the monsoon approaches. Mr Franklin Ray, chief of the China section of lend-lease, announced in Washington that more lend-lease had gone to China in the last month than any month since the Japanese cut off the Burma Road. New airfields are being built in India and China and the number of ferry service transport planes has been greatly increased. Construction is being rushed of new roads to China to speed up transportation of materials landed by air. The Japanese captured the majority of the lend-lease supplies landed at Rangoon, but more fighting equipment has been delivered to China by air than ever traversed the Burma Road. Burma’s fall meant more than cutting off desperately needed supplies. It meant throwing back Chinese transportation to the man and animal-power basis. Internal transport is now moving through the ingenuity of the Chinese who are using an evil-smelling fuel derived from vegetable oil and Chinese gasoline, carried more than 1000 miles by horse-drawn carts and river junks.