LOSSES AT TARAWA

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 5, 7 January 1944, Page 5

LOSSES AT TARAWA

LOWER THAN ANNOUNCED

(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.) Rec. 9 a.m. NEW YORK, January 6.

The total casualties of the marines in the Tarawa landing are somewhat less than the previously-announced figure of 3583, said the Director of Navy Public Relations, Captain Lovette. The casualty reports, which were still coming in, show that some men who were presumed dead have turned, up alive, and others who were, reported missing were found many miles distant with other units.

The navy announced that there were 269 survivors from the escort-carrier Liscombe Bay, which was sunk on November 24. The total complement was not disclosed because she was a new type of ship, concerning which the Japanese presumably have scanty knowledge. "The Axis can still win if. the Japanese and German peoples tide themselves cooly and calmly over the present war crisis," said Goebbels in an interview with Japanese correspondents in Berlin quoted by Tokio radio. "The war may last for many years, but we must fight oh to victory. Otherwise the golden opportunity of crushing Britain and America will not visit us for many centuries. "The. Japanese and Germans may retreat for strategic reasons and in certain circumstances, but this will not affect our chances of victory."