AMBITIOUS CLAIMS
1 Enemy’s Statistics WASHINGTON, January 7. An authorized navy spokesman said today: “There is not an iota of truth in a Japanese report that the Japanese attacked the United States battleships New Mexico and Mississippi and sank one of them.” . . The Tokio official radio claimed that the Japanese forces have shot down or destroyed 569 enemy planes and asserted that they had lost only 81 or their own aircraft. It claimed that Japanese airmen sank or destroyed 54 naval and transport vessels, including nine gunboats, four torpedo-boats, two destroyers, and one submarine, and said that they had lost only five ships sunk and 16 damaged. , It was also asserted that the Japanese casualties on all fronts during the four days from January 3 were only 752 killed and 1835 wounded, whereas in the same period the enemy losses were 2105 killed and 23,864 taken prisoner.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 89, 9 January 1942, Page 5
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