FUEL SHORTAGE
JAPAN IN CLOSING STAGES
OF WAR
(Rec. 9 a.m.) PEARL HARBOUR, April 23
Japan was so short of fuel during the closing months of the war that soya-bean was used to drive the super battleship Yamato, in the final suicide attack on Okinawa on April 7, 1945. This was revealed by a naval technical mission which has completed a study of Japan’s war effort. The mission also disclosed that fuel was so scarce that many ships lay idle in their home ports under American air attack, while the Japanese considered dumping rafts of supplies in the sea off Korea and Formosa in the hope' that' currents would carry them to Japan.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 24 April 1946, Page 7
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