NO ENEMY FLEET LEFT
RECONNAISSANCE CONFIRMED. GUAM. August 21. Rear-Admiral Forrest. Sherman, who represented Admiral Nimitz at Manila, indicated that there will be no broad surrender of the Japanese Fleet, because there is no fleet. The Japanese naval envoys confirmed Allied reconnaissance reports and added that tho crews had been removed from the surviving ships because of the acute fuel shortage. Rear-Admiral Sherman said the blockade had apparently crippled the entire economic structure.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 65, Issue 267, 22 August 1945, Page 3
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