JAPANESE SHIPPING
750,000 Tons Sunk by U.S, Submarines
NEW YORK, Oct. 29
The American submarines operating from bases in Australia and Hawaii have sunk at least 750,000 tons of enemy shipping, according to the military and naval correspondent of the "New York Times," Mr. Hanson Baldwin, who recently toured the South-west Pacific war zone. Only three submarines have been lost in addition to one which was sunk in a collision at Panama and one demolished in a Philippine dry dock to forestall seizure by the enemy, he states.
route which was broken with the capture of Wake Island by the Japanese. On one coral island, which he would not name because Japan probably did not know about it, engineers had built runways which were comparable with those of any huge city airport. They had also constructed a plane - hoist with timber from a wrecked ship.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19421030.2.49.8
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 105, 30 October 1942, Page 5
Word Count
145JAPANESE SHIPPING Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 105, 30 October 1942, Page 5
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.