HEAVY LOSSES
SUFFERED BY JAPANESE IN BATAN MAY ACCOUNT FOR PRESENT LULL. ’ SOME IMPRESSIVE FIGURES. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, February 25. The Associated Press of America correspondent with General MacArthur’s forces in Batan (Mr Lee Clark), believes that the lull in attacks has been caused by heavy Japanese casualties, which he estimates at nearly 30,000. He said the defenders alone had buried 2,000 enemy killed by artillery during attempted landings on the west coast and in thrusts against the central front.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 February 1942, Page 4
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87HEAVY LOSSES Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 February 1942, Page 4
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