Show I Y Y JAPANESE ADMIT DESTROYER LOST t C EdItors Editor's Note This Ibis story Is IsIf of If enemy origin It was transcribed transcribed tran tran- scribed from froma fromn n a radio broadcast originating g l in la Japan Japa T TOKYO A Auf 27 wS Japan Japan P ii has has S' S lost pile destroyer sunk and a a. small aircraft carrier damaged i In n the renewed battle of the Solomon Islands imperial headquarters announced an an- I n unc d today An Italian broadcast in thee the French Can J language n Va g- g e the e same in every very other r d detail taiJ as T Tokyo's kyo's mentioned mentioned men men- damage to several small Japanese aircraft carriers A Berin Berin Ber Ber- lin in broadcast was VIas first understood t to o have said aid one of the Japanese carriers was sunk unk but this was erroneous The Japa Japanese se said the United States losses lashes all inflicted by air attack were One heavy aircraft carrier of a anew anew anew new type heavily damaged Another smaller carrier damA dam- dam aged A battleship of the the Pennsylvania class Hasa el damaged The com I que liste listed these the casualties for both sides Au gust 24 in an sea air-sea enc encounter unter east of the Solomon islands which It called tile Second battle of ot t the e Solomons The J Japanese ese press described the Solomon islands b battle as al an an American defeat saying th the American Amer ican ca can l fleet approaching the Solomons Solomons Solo Solo- mons from the east was sighted and attacked by the Japanese at ato 2 o p. p m m. m oh on l August 24 Nichi Nichi Tokyo daft daily Said Mid that the damaged American American aircraft aircraft aircraft air air- craft carriers are are obviously ships which were commissioned after the theo o outbreak of war in east ast Asia and nd that the battleship v was most probably the Pennsylvania which was damaged in jn the course of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and which meanwhile m obviously h has had a begin been b repaired ii- ii Cl |