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55 to D' TO BE TRANSMITTED PR ARING OFFICE WILL DICATE WHETHER TELEGRAM SENT CONFIDENTIAL CODE (Full rate NONCONFIDENTIAL CODE Collect Day letter PARTAIR Night letter Department of State PLAIN Charge Department: Full rate -2- Washington. Day letter Nightletter Charge to $ hich can be immediately authorized. / Three. The first of these lists has just received the / / President' S approval ! He has authorized that steps be taken immediately to arrange for the procurement of the / following items for China in the amounts and to the estimated values stated: Reilway equipment tfor ante-sianiyun / Railway) $15,000,000 Communications equipment (telephones, , switchboards, and wire) $ 1,000,000 2000 Militery trucks' $ 6,000,000 2000' Commercial trucks' $ 6,000,000 Gasoline (5;000,000 gallons aviation and truck)', 1,000,000 5000, tons Diesel oil ,50,000 2500' tons' Lubricsting oil 3 , 250,000 Rew materials' (for arsenals) $10,000,000 150 Light' Caterpillar tractore 300,000 300 Light passenger cars, 300,000 3,000,000 Cotton blankets $ 4,500,000 10,000,000 yards'Gray' sheeting $ 700,000 The estimated velues include cost of freight to Rangoon. Four. The items listed represent merely the first list of articles and quentities which after preliminary and repid exemination could be approved promptly. Further study will undoubtedly result in determination that larger quantities of the articles listed above can be approved and additional lists of other articles will be forthcoming in the near future as the reports of the various committees, including ordnance and Enciphered by NATIONAL Sent by operator M., 19 . . SERVICE^ 1-1402 PRINTING OFFICE continued 1

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