JAPAN HARD HIT
SEVERED FROM POSSESSIONS. NAVAL AND MERCHANT LOSSES. PACIFIC BECOMES A GRAVEYARD (N.Z. Press Association-Copyright.) (Rec. 10 a.m.) LONDON, May 27. Submarines have all but severed Japan from her former possessions, said Admiral Chester Nimitz, in disclosing to-day that his submarines bad sunk 2,000,000 tons of Japanese shipping in the last year. Since the beginning of the Pacific war, move than 1100 Japanese vessels have been sunk, totalling 4,500,000 tons. Giving details of the destruction visited on Japanese sea power. Admiral Nimitz said: “Between December, 1041, and May 5 of Ibis year, our submarines alone have sunk a total of 126 enemy warships, including four carriers, 14 cruisers and 53 destroyers. They have sunk 993 non-combat ships.'. The total of Japanese vessels sunk is' 1119.
“This, I need hardly add, .is a conservative estimate,” saift Admiral Nimitz. “To-day no enemy warship or merchant ship can venture upon the waters of the Pacific without wellgrounded fear in the hearts of the men that they will never return to their home base.”—British Official Wireless.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 65, Issue 192, 28 May 1945, Page 3
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