GRAVEYARD OF SHIPS
WATERS AROUND SAVO
NEW YORK, December 12. A United Press correspondent, Charles Arnot, in a delayed dispatch from Guadalcanal, says that the waters surrounding the volcanic isle of Savo in the Solomons have become the war's greatest ship graveyard, Japanese warships and transports sent to the bottom outnumbering the American by almost
two to one,
According to the latest official announcements, Japan has lost 52 vessels since August 7 and America has lost 27. Savo, with peaks towering high above sea level, is known as "The Tombstone." Five major engagements have been fought around the island under cover of darkness since the marines landed on August 7. Each battle marked the fiercest toe-to-toe slugging with big guns and torpedoes in action at less than 2000 yards. Japan refused to believe that the Americans who have secured a hold on Guadalcanal would continue to send in warships and transports.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 143, 14 December 1942, Page 5
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