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Show U. S. Subs Hurt Japs American submarines have inflicted serious losses upon the Japanese fleet, sinking seventeen seven-teen warships up to September 21, and damaging twenty additional addi-tional vessels. In addition, our submarines, in the same period, sunk fifty-six Japanese merchant ships and damaged sixteen oth ers. I The significance of those losses loss-es becomes apparant when wo consider that Japan is an islanr" country, dependent upon ship ping for her existancc. Ever food for the Japanese people must be imported and, in addition, addi-tion, the raw materials for her industries come largely in the holds of cargo ships. American submarine warfare against Japan is just getting underway, un-derway, with new submarines joining in the operations that cover the waters of the Far East. So far, five of our submarines have been lost but the threat they make against the Japanese is probably more dangerous than that of the German U-boats a-gainst a-gainst Anglo-American shipping The good work of our submarines sub-marines since Pearl Harbor has been supplemented by the destruction de-struction caused Dy our aircraft. American planes have vigerous-ly vigerous-ly attacked Japanese, inflicting losses which seriously interfere with Tokyo's consolidation of territorial gains in the Far East. |