MAY BEGIN ATTACK

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 31, 6 August 1945, Page 5

MAY BEGIN ATTACK

JAPANESE SUBMARINES WASHINGTON, August 4 . It would hot be surprising if th< long-dormant Japanese submarine flee opened an offensive in desperation said a Navy Department spokesman. He pointed out that enemy sub marines, which had scored consider able success against warships and mer chant shipping in the early days o the war, had been lying low for near ly two years, confining their activitie to scouting and running supplies t< trapped garrisons in by-passed islands Now there was little reason for th Japanese to conserve submarines, sinc> the home islands themselves were in volved in a fight for life. The spokes man indicated that Japanese submarin tactics did not compare with those o the Germans, which came close t seriously crippling the entire Alliei war effort. He refused to divulge how man; submarines had been sunk, but said "We are sinking them regularly." The correspondent of the "New Yoi\ Times" in Manila says that in the las few days, the Japanese have sudden ly switched against the America: ships submarines which were previous Jy engaged in supplying garrisons i: the Indies or reconnoitring.,