| Show U S engineers to help china build facto factories ries small pocket industries nullify bombings by japanese released by western newspaper union NEW YORK flans to increase american technical al aid to war torn china by send sending ing 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 i collaborating with the movie colony group headed by dave member of the na 1 dional 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 win 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 71 1 1 1 71 V JOHN GARFIELD china will be victorious for war relief and to maintain the midget industries already established and to provide 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 then 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 doable 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 extremely difficult to locate the small centers and impractical to bomb them hem t because of the relative amount of damage as compared to the cost of the bombs the differential being more 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 allotted by H H kung minister of finance in at the rate of per man for any group of workers willing to start a plant the m money oney is expended on a loan basis and an d in in accordance cor dance with regulations of th the e 0 old id 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 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 tiny crucible steel and hearth furnaces and many other methods of manufacturing and operating small but efficient plants plant sll said mr garfield he voiced the opinion that with american financial and technical help china can finally emerge victorious to take her place with other democracies |
