Show U S engi engineers to help china build factories small pocket industries nullify bonilin bombings s by japanese released by western newspaper union NEW YORK plans to increase american technical aid to war torn china by sending a voluntary crew of american engineers to the orient have been disclosed by john garfield hollywood actor and leader of a group of relief workers on the west coast his organization is collaborating with the movie colony group headed by dave member of the national united china relief committee if we are the arsenal of democracy stated garfield then china should have our support in full the actor went on to describe pres ent day conditions and summarized their plans to defeat the purpose of japanese air raids by spreading and isolating manufacturing units into mountainous and sparsely settled territories the engineers who are scheduled for early departure plan to introduce and increase more modern technique in industrial production allied with small units of space and equipment A major objective will be the operation of motor repair stations along the important burma road over which most of the supplies for war reaches china the united china relief campaign is now engaged in the task of raising ta ai JOHN GARFIELD china will bt be victorious 1 for war relief and to maintain the midget industries already established and to provide tor for thousands more many factories moved an engineering feat of moving more than complete factories containing tons of machinery wholly with human labor was consummated sum mated in early spring when thousands of coolies fled the war devastated coastal region carrying the factories and equipment piecemeal upon their backs into the interior sections of their country it was pointed out that the program served the double purpose of producing needed defense and civilian material and absorbing refugees in rebuilding for the new china mr garfield stressed the fact that because of the widely separated points of manufacture and distribution that enemy fliers found it ex difficult to locate the small centers and impractical t to bomb them because of the relative amount of damage as compared to the co cost s t of the bombs the differential being em i g in more e than 25 times even when the objective was a direct hit on the first attempt A bomb is too much even for the japanese to inflict 10 worth of damage to the enemy said mr garfield money contributed to the fund is a allotted llott ed by y H H kung minister of finance in in at the rate of per man for any group of workers willing in g to start a plant the money is eapen expended ded on a loan basis and d in act corrance cor dance with regulations of the old established central revolving fund plan mr garfield stated that previous loans have all been repaid principle and machines never before seen or understood by the chinese chiese n ese have become a vital factor in the war of supplies we are teaching them to harness old water wheels to operate small dynamos the technique of building tin tiny y crucible steel and hearth furnaces and many other methods of manufacturing and operating small but efficient plants said mr garfield he voiced the opinion that with american fin financial ancial and technical help china can finally emerge victorious to take her place with oth other er democracies |