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JAPANESE WARSHIPS METAL FOR INDUSTRIES (10 a.m.) TOKYO. March 22. The United States naval authorities announced that of the 750,000 displacement tons of Japanese warships which remained afloat at the end of the war, 600,900 tons had been scrapped. "Hie metal would be used for peacetime industrial purposes. Of the major warships only the escort carrier Kumano Man l remains afloat.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22593, 23 March 1948, Page 5
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64NEARLY ALL SCRAPPED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22593, 23 March 1948, Page 5
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