finished. It is estimated that this section (115 miles) will not be ready until November, and then
only provided Indian labor employed on the Indian section is utilized. This has been arranged.
 
I. Admiral Standley, in a dispatch dated April 10, from Kuibyshev, stated that the Chinese
gJabassador had expressed apprehension that the movement of supplies along tile Burma Road
might prove impossible and. he suggested as an alternate route that supplies for China should be
sent to Bandarshar, thence across Persia to Bandarsharpur- on the Caspian, and then by sea to
Krasnovodsk. Supplies could be trans-shipped at this point and railed across southern Russia to
Alma Ata or Sargiopol via Tashkent. The China supply road from Alma Ata to Chungking, under
existing conditions, is not capable, according to the Chinese Ambassador, of transporting more
than 4,000 tons per month.
 
_j. The Operations Division of the General Staff has sent a cable to General Brereton asking
specifically what supplies are currently being sent into Burma and China by all routes including air
routes z
 
           2. If above information is not complete, I do not know where you can get any more except
from General Stilwell.
 
                                   H.H. ARNOLD
                              Lieutenant General, U.S.A.
                         Commanding General, Army Air Forces