ADMISSIONS BY TOKYO

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23799, 19 November 1942, Page 5

ADMISSIONS BY TOKYO

LOSS OP BATTLESHIP AND CRUISER (Rec. 12.15 a.m.) NEW YORK, Nov. 17. The Tokyo radio says that Japanese Imperial Headquarters has announced that the Japanese losses in the Solomons battle between November 12 and 14 were one battleship lost and one damaged, one cruiser and three destroyers lost, and seven transports damaged. The Tokyo radio also claims that the United States battleships North Carolina and Idaho fled after receiving terrific damage at the hands of the Japanese Navy m the Solomons on November 14. Japanese Imperial Headquar? ters, it says, will issue a communique to-morrow showing that the Japanese naval victory was so overwhelming that United States attempts at a counter-offensive in the south Pacific will be a thing of the past. The Associated Press of America says that the Tokyo broadcast is an obvious prelude to an announcement seeking to offset the Washington communique. The Tokyo radio, summarising Japanese claims of Allied losses in the Solomons since August 7, gives an Imperial communique claiming that 80 Allied warships have been sunk or damaged, including one battleship sunk and two damage*!, four aircraft-carriers sunk and four damaged, three unidentified warships damaged, 25 cruisers sunk and four damaged, 16 destroyers sunk and nine damaged, nine submarines sunk and one damaged, one minesweeper sunk and one damaged, and 10 transports sunk and six damaged. Furthermore, 796 aircraft had been destroyed.