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21-2 Tel R Chungboro are - JUL 2 71943 BSD 433 AIDE MEMOIRE His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom are most anxious to do all in their power to assist the Chinese Government to obtain the non- military supplies which they require in order to maintain their war effort and have lately been considering whether there were any steps which could usefully be taken to facilitate the flow of such supplies to China. Hitherto the POLITICAL difficulties of transportation have greatly NOV 17 1943 limited the amount of non-military supplies which it has been possible actually to deliver to China. a However the increase in the carrying capacity of air transport between India and China and the prospect that it may at a not too distant date, be possible to deliver up to 1,700 tons of goods by the overland route, should, it is to be hoped, enable appreciably larger quantities of such stores to reach China in the future. In any case it is to be anticipated that the Chinese authorities, encouraged by the prospect of improved methods of transyortation, will endeavour to obtain very considerable quantities of non- military stores from the United States and to a lesser extent from the United Kingdom and other sources of supply. It will, however, be some time before the transportation position can be improved to any very appreciable extent and indeed, until a radical change in the military situation tales place it io to be feared that transportation facilities will always be inadequate to carry all the non-military supplies which the Chines: is

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