JAPAN’S LOSSES AT SEA

Southland Times, Issue 24649, 22 January 1942, Page 5

JAPAN’S LOSSES AT SEA

SUCCESS OF DARING FORAY CRUISER SUNK BY BOMBERS (Rec. 10 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. A Navy communique announced that a United States motor torpedo-boat in a daring night foray entered Subic Bay, on the west coast of the island of Luzon in the Philippines, and torpedoed a 5000-ton Japanese vessel. The operation was carried out under the fire of machine-guns and shore batteries. Lieutenant John Bulkeley is commended for executing the mission successfully. Six American Army bombers successfully attacked a Japanese cruiser and a large tanker 100 miles off Jolo. Several direct hits were scored, sinking the cruiser and leaving the tanker in flames. An official analysis of Dutch statements broadcast from Batavia between December 13 and January 16 show that the Japanese suffered the following losses in and about Malaya, the Philippines, Borneo and Netherlands East Indies by action of Dutch submarines, naval and military aircraft and coastal batteries at Arakan:

Sunk or destroyed.—Two cruisers, four destroyers, 11 transports, three tankers, one merchantman, two lighters or invasion barges and one craft not

specified. Badly damaged.—Three cruisers, three transports (with another two doubtful), one aircraft transport and one craft not specified. HIGH PRICE PAID

A Chungking message says that the Chinese Intelligence Division reports that 5000 wounded Japanese are crowding Saigon hospital. Urns containing the ashes of another 5000 are awaiting shipment to Japan, thus attesting the high cost of the Japanese march towards Singapore.