NAVAL LOSSES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 September 1943, Page 4

NAVAL LOSSES

SUFFERED BY JAPANESE LIST GIVEN IN UNITED STATES. BY CHAIRMAN OF HOUSE COMMITTEE. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.0 a.m.) WASHINGTON, September 19. Allied sea power is preventing the Japanese from supplying their garrisons for long resistance, declared Mr Carl Vinson, chairman of the House of Representative’s Naval Committee. He pointed out that to date 180 Japanese warships had been sunk and that heavy Iqsses had been inflicted on supply ships and troopships. The recent successes in New Guinea demonstrated the marked co-ordination between land, sea and air forces. Mr Vinson added that the objective of making the Japanese Navy give the army only a one-way passage, had been carried out. He outlined the Japanese sea losses in the South-West Pacific as follow: — Sunk: 55 warships, including 1 battleship, 14 cruisers, 21 destroyers, 3 seaplane tenders, 8 submarines and one submarine tender. Damaged: 73 warships, including one battleship, 38 cruisers, 21 destroyers, two carriers and 3 seaplane- tenders. Japanese warships sunk in . other areas include two battleships, six carriers, 24 cruisers, 62 destroyers and six submarines. Enemy vessels so badly damaged as to be forced out of action include: 9 battleships, 1 carriers, 47 cruisers, 62 destroyers' and 6 submarines. Listed as possibly sunk are 28 ships, including one carrier, four cruisers, 18 destroyers and one submarine. The United Press points out that the Navy Department had claimed that two battleships were sunk and expresses the view that Mr Vinson is including the Haruna as sunk off the Philippines.