SUBMARINE ATTACKS
ON ALLIED SHIPPING IN PACIFIC VERY SUCCESSFUL DEFENCE SO FAR. COMPARISON WITH ATLANTIC & MEDITERRANEAN. (Special Australian Correspondent.) SYDNEY, May 3. “The Allied naval forces so far have been very successful in protecting the traffic within, the South-West Pacific area, bound for Australia from the United States,” said an official spokesman at General MacArthur's headquarters today.
He was replying to a query by a war correspondent as to the relative efficiency of the Japanese submarine campaign in the South-West Pacific area and that of the Germans in the Atlantic. “A comparison between the two theatres is most difficult for many reasons,” explained the spokesman. “Admiral Cunningham recently gave the figiires for the Tunisian campaign in the Atlantic theatre as 10,500,000 tons of shipping for five months, with a loss of about 21 per cent. The comparable figures for this area for a similar period would be something less than 1,000,000 tons of shipping, with a loss of approximately 2 per cent. The tremendously greater volume of military supplies for Tunisia as compared with this area naturally makes the problem a difficult one, but judged by results the relative efficiencies seem to be about the same.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 May 1943, Page 3
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