HEAVY LOSSES
SUSTAINED BY JAPANESE TOLL TAKEN BY AMERICANS AND DUTCH. OPERATIONS AT SEA. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day. 11.40 a.m.) BATAVIA, February 19. Japan lost 110 ships up to February 14. The details, based on official reports are:— Battleships: Two probably destroyed, two damaged. Cruisers: Seven sunk, four probably sunk, eleven damaged. Destroyers: Thirteen sunk, three probably sunk, eleven damaged. Submarines: Six sunk, one probably sunk, one damaged. Aircraft carriers: One sunk, two probably sunk. Transports: Fifty-two sunk, twelve probably sunk, twenty-three damaged. Cargo ships: Twenty-three sunk, four probably sunk, three damaged. Tankers: Seven sunk, two damaged. The United States forces sunk eightyfour ships, while probably fifteen more were damaged. These figures do not include losses inflicted in the last few days on the enemy fleet off South Sumatra. These are said to be heavier than so far officially claimed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 February 1942, Page 4
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