LITTLE RESISTANCE
Japanese Submarines (Received August 20, 11 p.m.) WASHINGTON, August 19. Japanese submarines are offering virtually no resistance to the vast tonnage of American shipping plying in the Unci' tic, said Mr. Elmer Davis, Director of the Office of War Information, on his return from a visit to Pacific outposts. “One of the war’s greatest mysteries, he said, “is the ineffectiveness of Japanese submarines.” Mr. Davis said that the Pacific war would continually need more shipping. ’Pearl Harbour, now the fourth United States port in tonnage handled, probably would pass Norfolk, and become the third port when the European war ended.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 278, 21 August 1944, Page 6
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