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21-2 Tel R Chungboro are
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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.
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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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