JAPANESE CLAIMS
4 REPORT ON SIX MONTHS OF WAR. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.25 p.m.) NEW YORK, June ,7. The Tokio official radio states that Imperial Headquarters, summing up the first six months of the war, claims that 35 enemy divisions have been crushed in South Pacific regions, while 112,000 have been killed in North, Central and South China. Further it is claimed that the Japanese have captured 342,000 prisoners, including 25,000 Americans, 64,000'Britons, 24,000 Dutch and 44,000 Chinese and have also destroyed 1636 and captured 240 plan,es. The admitted Japanese losses are 9,174 killed and 20,720 wounded; also 348 planes lost, while 31 ships, totalling 160,000 tons, have been sunk.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 June 1942, Page 4
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