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JAP SUBS' RAIDS ON U.S.A. Rec. 11.30 a.m. WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. Lieut.-General de Witt, who supervised the removal of ' Japanese resi^ dents from the west coast area of the United States in 1942, reported that Japanese submarine attacks in that area in the early stages of the war were aided by signals from the shore. He said that for several weeks after Pearl Harbour enemy submarines attacked every ship leaving West Coast ports. The removal of the Japanese resulted in the virtual elimination of the signals and a reduction in the submarine attacks. I The submarines apparently knew the j range of the coastal guns, and on one [ occasion a submarine surfaced and shelled the coast from the only, position which the coastal guns were i unable to reach. Japanese communities invariably flanked the strategic installations on the West Coast, while there were no Japanese in the available nearby farming sections. It was difficult to explain this situation by coincidence alone. ........ , . - : -
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 17, 21 January 1944, Page 5
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