Success at Sea

In their systematic, silent war against the shipping which supplied Japan's island conquests, U.S. submarines in the Pacific last week were credited with further success: seven Japanese vessels sunk, six of them merchant ships, one a destroyer. This brought the total of Japanese ships sent to the bottom by U.S. submarine action to 168. Also listed were 25 "probables" and 42 vessels damaged.

Australia's Air & Civil Aviation Minister Arthur Samuel Drakeford added estimates of Japanese shipping sunk by Allied action: 2,250,000 tons of warships and freight carriers. All told, the Jap was believed to have lost more ships since the outbreak of war than he had gained by seizure or new construction.

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