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ALLIES MUCH SUPERIOR IN SPITE OF HEAVY LOSSES. • PROBLEM OF MEETING WIDE DEMANDS. i — (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, March 16. The naval correspondent of the “Daily Express” says: “With the Java losses, the Royal Navies, including the Australian and Canadian, have now lost 15 cruisers and 67 destroyers, which is three destroyers more than were lost during the whole of the last war. The Allies combined still have a far greater number of warships of all classes. The joint naval command’s problem is to dispose of them for world-wide duties without being caught at a severe local disadvantage, as in the Java battle. The Japanese cruisers, although they have achieved spectacular successes in the Pacific War, are believed to have paid heavily, with eight or nine sunk and perhaps fifteen damaged.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 March 1942, Page 3
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