COMING EVENTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 September 1943, Page 4

COMING EVENTS

INDICATED BY AMERICAN OFFICER • EVIDENCE ON LEND-LEASE ALLOCATIONS. SUPPLIES FOR WESTERN EUROPE NEXT YEAR. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) WASHINGTON, September 28. Hints of next year’s invasion campaigns were given by Lieutenant-Col-onel Gaud, at a War Department conference of industrialists, Labour leaders and newspaper executives, when he disclosed that ten per cent of the military Lend-Lease supplies in 1944 had been earmarked for France, Belgium, Norway and Greece. This year’s LendLease programme calls for 5,400 million dollars’ worth of supplies chiefly for Britain, Russia and China. Colonel Gaud said the air forces 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. He explained that General Stillwell had established in India a great training camp for Chinese. 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 building roads, but mostly they will return to China to train other Chinese in the use of modern machinery. 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 fifty per cent more trucks.