JAPANESE NAVY
Eight Battleships (Rec. 8.0 p.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 30. Japan’s battleship strength is down to eight, comprising four 45,000-tonners, which would be ready for service in three months. This information was gained by the Korean underground movement and reported to the Commonwealth Club by Kilson Haan, the Korean leader. Other underground reports give the following Japanese ships:—Twelve aircraft-carriers, 16 converted carriers, 182 destroyers, 102 submarines, 24 cargo submarines each of 4500 tons, 22 heavy cruisers, and 28 light cruisers. The Japanese are building 3000 tighter planes a month. The latest plant is at Peiping, the second largest in Mukden. Japanese merchantmen have kept up at about pre-war tonnage. New production is estimated at 2,000,000 a year. Haan said that he visited the State Department offices in Washington on the Saturday before Pearl Harbour. He then tried to give the latest information on the Japanese fleet’s approach to Pearl Harbour, but was told to return on Monday. Later the late Colonel Frank Knox told him: “Your predictions were indeed borne out,”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVI, Issue 23012, 2 October 1944, Page 5
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172JAPANESE NAVY Timaru Herald, Volume CLVI, Issue 23012, 2 October 1944, Page 5
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