EXAGGERATED ENEMY CLAIMS
Offensive Minimized (Received May 7, 10.50 p.m.) NEW YORK, -May G. “The new Japanese submarine campaign against Allied shipping has so tar been practically profitless;” says a statement which has been issued from Admiral Halsey’s headquarters at a base in tho South Pacific. .. The observations made in the statement specifically embrace tlie subranine warfare both in the South-west and South Pacific command areas. A Japanese claim to have sunk 50,000 tons in nine days is described as “a flat lie,” the statement adding, “They have not sunk that much in the past three months. ’ . . A slight increase in the Allied shipping losses is admitted, but nothing unusual is seen in the Japanese submarine offensive “except an effort to bolster up morale on their home front.”
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 190, 8 May 1943, Page 5
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