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Show I "Most Intensive" ! Naval VVaifaie ; The battle of Jutland, in the ' first World War, is considered one of the decisive sea engagements engage-ments of history but Secretary Knox points out that the Germans Ger-mans lost only a fraction of the ships that the Japanese have lost in the seven air and sea battles in the Solomns campaign alone. 1 At Jutland the Germans lost ! one battleship, one battle cruiser, lour light cruisers and five torpedo tor-pedo boats. In the battle of Guadalcanal alone, rought last November, the Japanese lost two battleships, i eight cruisers, six destroyers, eight transports and four cargo i ships. This three-day fight was a ship-to-ship slugging match with new U. S. battleships blasting blast-ing the Japanese into oblivion. Mr. Knox refers to Americans who persist in saying we are maing only half-hearted efforts in the Pacific, completely disregarding dis-regarding the fact that in the past twelve months air, surface and underseas actions between the United Nations' forces and the Japanese have "been the j most intensive in all the history of vanal warfare." The Secretary of the Navy points out that in "almost every encounter" ' our forces faced superior su-perior odds and tfiat "we simply did not have available the men, the ships and the planes that we wanted to send to the Pacific area." The history of the war in the Pacafic during the past nineteen months, will take rank with the greatest achievements of the navies of the world. Badly out-navies out-navies of the world. Badly outnumbered, out-numbered, after Pearl Harbor, our ships, men and planes persistently per-sistently fought a stronger enemy en-emy and rarely failed to score a victory. |