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MR. POLITICAL
drafted
vision of
32-1
FAR EASTERN AFFAIRS
*A#
AUG 25 1943
AUG 231943
D 456
of
STATE
Depa tmert of State
of
No. 534
AUG UF
2 0
46/103/43
septomaber 7. 104
His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires presents his
compliments to the Secretary of state and has the
honour to refer to the question of the Sinkiang overland
supply route from India to China.
2.
As Mr. Hull will be aware, the limited
t
ospacity of the Burma road and of the air route from
343.7
India has made it nesessary to envisage the possible
noed of an additional high ospacity supply route to
China. with a view oventually to meeting this need,
its
steps have been taken to develep the Sinkiang route,
and, as this route my shortly begin operating on a
small scale, consideration has been given by the
appropriate departments of His Majesty's Government to
the necessity for proper maintenance of the roads. It
has been established that transport and vehicle repair
facilities can only be obtained with great difficulty,
and it is considered undesirable that unnecessary strain
should be thrown on these facilities by the bad condition
of the roads.
3.
Sir R. Campbell is informed that the recently
opened route has only been used by a amall volume of
traffic, and it is probable that some survey and
maintenance work will be necessary if the present target
of capacity (2,000 tons per month) is to be reached and
maintained efficiently. It should also be remembered
in considering the importance of maintaining the roads
in good order, that the figure of 2,000 tons a month is
not necessarily the maximum which the route may
eventually have to carry.
40/
3. ARCHIVES 'NATIONAL SERVICE^" RECORDS AND
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