THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 30, 1941.
BIG U.S. SUPPLIES ARMING THE NEAR EAST
(By HAROLD DENNY)
PORTS IN THE NEAR EAST have become the real war front of the Near East. American war materials of every description are arriving in this theatre in sufficient volume to promise an appre- ciable effect.
The first ship to arrive after President Roose- velt removed the legal barriers against American vessels' voyages to the Red Sea docked July 4 after a voyage from an American port.
Her captain, a husky Irish-American, was proud of his distinction. While a group of correspondents watched the unloading of his ship, another vessel with the Stars and Stripes nosed into port.
The quay, a narrow strip of her forces, launch a sweep toward solid ground with the blue sea India and the Near East, coming i
o0
on one side and 11 fringe of down from the Caucasus across stringy palms cutting
the Persia or Turkey into Iraq and desert on the other, was a scene Syria and, if successful, even Of great animation, for these to Egypt. priceless stores were being un-
Granted that Adolf Hitler gets loaded at top speed twenty-uur the Ukraine and the Caucasus in hours a day. British freighters also were unloading.
take tew weeks, it will least two years to organise the production and transport of the
American Experts Help resources he most needs.
After
'PLANES
COUNCIL PLAN
A British-American production council to achieve standardisa- tion of 'planes is sug- gested in a Parlia- mentary question by Mr. E. Granville (Lib. Nat., Eye).
U.S. SHIP BUILDING
IMPRESSIVE
INCREASEL ARE NOTED IN CURRENT SHIP CONSTRUCTION IN NORTH AMERICA AS COM- PARED WITH THE VOLUME
REPORTED
YR A
20.
SAYS THE "SEATTLE TIMES."
For instance, 826 ships, with a he has geared these resources total of 5,350,000 gross tons, were British officers and soldiers into his war machine, unless he on the ways or under contract were supervising, while American is beaten, he will be the master in American shipyards on June technical experts stood by to of the most formidable empire the 1, 1941, as compared with 287 see that their precious charges world ever saw.
vessels of 1,528,260 gross tons on were not damaged and to advise
July 1, 1940-Reuter. on the uncrating and assembling, The stevedores were Egyptian Arabs, who, with dirty collon burnouses rolled up around their waists, sweated and shouted 5. they pried out the cargo.
The dock jungle of
was already 2 crates containing
Tomahawk engines, fuselages and wing sections ready to be assembled, motor trucks, tires and spare parts for automobiles and acroplanes.
AMERICA'S
BLACK-
LIST
The United States has
The ship appeared packed to capacity. Deep in the hold lay. squat ugly war monsters. As one issued a list of 1,834 per- by e they were hoisted by derricks and deposited un
sons trading in Latin- land they received a few gallons of America, said Mr. Hugh gasoline and chugged off under Dalton, Minister of Eco- technician fondly parted a gun nomic Warfare, in the muzzle and remarked. "These are House of Commons yes- made of steel that is second to none.
their own power.. An American
terday.
n
The interstices among the Mr. Dalton was replying to heavy items were filled with coils | question as to what extent pro- of wire, tires, medical stores, gress had been made as between shoe polish and ordinary civil Britain and the U.S. in producing goods, including American canned a black-list of traders. beer that has already appeared The majority of these tradera, in Cairo cares at 40 cents a pint, | continued Mr. Dalton, also ap- Word that a large variety of peared in the British statutory American supplies is actually list. reaching the Near East has spread widely through the troops, who for months have been asking every American they see, "When will your stuff begin coming?"
Near East Hails Russians
He was consulting the U.S. Government on co-ordination of the two lists.
Cheers greeted Mr. Dalton when he added: "This rew departure will be of the greatest value to us in waging economic warfare, and I am sure the House will wish to join with me in welcoming this striking act of American coopera- tion."
NAZI SHIPS IN THE
PERSIAN GULF
The Near East apparently is secure for the time being. How Mr. Da'ton replied in the affirm- long it will remain so few ven-ative when asked if consideratior -ture to predict.
British authorities speak admir-was now being given to the ques- tion of Japanese enemy trade.- ingly of the courage, tenacity and
Reuter. skill of the Red Army, for it is devouring a considerable slice of Germany's trained man power and destroying much German equipment though at an immensel cost to its own men and materi..........
Four German merchant ships But even though Russia's E
ow anchored in a Persian Gulf sistance has been more effective port are expected to slip out into than had been hoped for, most the Indian Ocean to become observers here have little doubt raiders against British shipping. of the final outcome. Russia can off the Indian and Arabian coasts, at best only delay the German according to Martin Agronsky, Ankara correspondent ΟΣ the National Broadcasting Corpora- tion, says Reuter from New York.
march.
U.S. ARMY AIR COOPERATION
The Germans are driving heav- iest at the administrative and in- dustrial centres, Mc
and Leningrad, instead of yat Klev, as first exper
and evidently intend to paralyse. Rus- sia's nerve centres and knock but Russia by a blow to the head in- The U.S. War Department,yes- stead of simply going after grain,terday announced the creation coal, iron and oil, tl.. resources of a new type of Army air force of the Ukraine and Transcau- | organisation, to be known as the Air Support Command, which
casus.
Should the Germans succeed, will provide air support, for the it le difficult to see where the ground forces.--Reuter. Soviet Government couldʻeet] the]
itself up again west of
Ural Mountaing, and how it NAZI AIR CHIEF could avoid being delven. from Europe.
Germany's attack on Russia
KILLED
mokes the war problem greater Colonel-General-Ulrich Grauert and more Immediate for Britain Commanding General of a Nazl and the United States: If Ger- ulr squadron, who, the German many is able to overrun Western communique says, fell in action Russia In the next few weeks it while fighting against England" seems likely that she would then, was one of the German key alr after an interval for reorganising commanders.
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