Evening star., 1941-09-08
u. 5. Aid 10 Axis Foes
To Increase Greatly
In Next Six Months
Magnitude Of Program
To BE Realized When
Plants Hit High Tempo

By the Associated Press.
Defense officials predicted today
that American war supplies would be
flowing In greatly increased amounts
to Axis opponents all over the world
In another six months.
Already, supplies-both of the
lease lend and cash variety ale
moving from Americas rapidly ex-
panding arsenal" to China to felp
build a railroad supply lire supple
menting the Burma truck route; to
Britain for all purposes, TO the Mid
die East, the Netherlands Indies,
Russia, the Free French forces and
Polish war trainees in Canada.
But the real magnitude end ma
ture of the vast program defense
officials said, will begin to be realized
only when American production
takes the sharp curve upward that Is
expected next spring as pig factories
hit a high speed mass production
tempo and the volume of supplies is
swelled by the output of small plants
and back-alley machine shops now
being lined up for defense orders.
Thus far, President Roosevelt has
limited public announcement of
lease-lend operations largely to re-
port he sent to Congress last June
II. Covering the period from March
II to May 81, this report was very
general in nature and showed only
$75 ,000,0 of goods transferred I'M
der the act and $4,277,0O0,000 sllo-
Gated.
His second-quarter report IS due
this week. Like the first, lease-lend
officials expect it to withhold any
details which would benefit the Axis
powers.
The second report is expected by
some officials to show that ap-
proximately 80 per cent of the ST.
600 900, 900 has been allocated, COM
pared with a little more than so
per cent as of May 81.
Nav Show Increase.
Dollar value of war goods actu-
ally sent abroad also may show
quite an increase, they said, in view
of the intervening record which
shows-very roughly-how the fol-
lowing world areas are now bene-
fitting from lease-lend and other
forms of American aid:
China-About SIS 900 900 of lease
lend supplies-rolling stock and
roadbed materials-are just begin
ming to flow to China to go toward
construction of a railroad from
Burma to an undisclosed point in
the Chinese interior. This will sup
plement the famous Burma road
truck highway-which has served as
the sole southern supply route for
China since her seaports were closed
by the Japanese.
While details have been withheld,
1t is understood the British have
started a section of this railroad
to the Southern Chinese border and
the Chinese will extend it some 800
miles northward through mountain
Gus territory.
Military Mission Named.
Manufacturing equipment, raw
materials and planes also are going
to China; an American military mis-
sion has been named, and tech
nicianS. road builders and truckers
have already been there and re-
turned.
Great Britain - Ships, tanks,
planes, ammunition and other sup
plies are moving there in steadily
growing amounts. In his first re-
port, the President said that "rela-
lively more and more heavy and
medium bombers" would be shuttled
across the Atlantic; that 100000
tons Of cargo ships and oil tankers
were being made Immediately avail
able to Britain, and that $3.50, 900 900
had been allocated for new lease
lend ships.
Russia-American oil is moving
to Vladivostok across the Pacific de-
spite Japanese protests. A mission
headed by w. Averell Hartman and
Maj. Gen. James H Burns has been
named to go to Moscow to find out
IN consultations with the Russians
and British just what Russia wants
from the United States.
Aid to Russia will not come under
lease lend, at least for the time
being. She is expected to pay in
gold, manganese and other raw ma
terials. r. F. C. loans against Rus
sian materials also may figure in
these transactions.
Drafting of Pilots.
Middle East-American supplies
are moving there in substantial VOL
ume, and are expected to pick up.
Drafting of Pan-American Airline
pilots to ferry planes across the
South Atlantic to Africa and thence
to the Suez area is expected to prove
an important factor.
Netherlands Indies-In the face
Of Japanese cries of "encirclement,"
American planes and small arms
and other supplies are moving there
for cash.
Free French-Officials say Ameri-
can lease-lend supplies are going
indirectly through the British to
Gen. Charles de Gaulle's forces, as