Evening star., 1941-12-22
Submarines
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of the Lahaina crew were dead and
two were missing. The ship was
built in 1920 and her home port was
San Francisco.
The increasing tempo of the bat
| tie between our fleet and enemy
submersibles was recognized in the
/ special announcement made by Sec
retary Knox, who revealed eXten-
sive German and Japanese losses tc
assure the public that the Navy
has already adequately dealt with
more than one submarine.
Third Near California.
The Samoa was the third ship tc
be attacked of the California coast
Twenty miles off California, the
Japanese torpedoed the tanker En-
lido and shelled three of its life
| boats.
! All but five men of a crew of 81
| survived the attack on the Emidio
the captain of the ship said today
as he and his men were landed at
Eureka. Calf By Coast Guaro
| cutter. the Associated Press re.
ported.
He described the Saturday torpe-
doing and shelling of the tanker a,
the most ruthless thing I've heard
about"
/ Capt Clark A. Farrow of Long
Beach said five of his men were in
jured, but no one was in serious con-
dition. The Emidio still was afloat.
Eureka is about 275 miles north OF
San Francisco.
The tanker Agriworld escaped
without damage from another
because of the poor marks
manship of Japanese gunners. The
Navy. meanwhile, said enemy sub
marines also were believed to be
operating near the American At
lantic shore.
IA U-Boats Destroyed.
The announcement that at least
IA German submarines had been
sunk or damaged by American
forces since we started to clear the
sea of "rattlesnakes" gave a hint
of the increased efficiency of United
States patrols This is rate Of
damage to underseas craft four
times as great as the Navy reached
in the first World War.
The text of Mr.. Knox's announce
ment, issued by the Navy Depart
ment. follows.
Il. The Navy has been aware for
some time that enemy submarine
activity in and near American wa
ters was impending and naturally
has already taken appropriate
counter measures.
%. The release of information Of
the attacks or our shipping. un-
accompanied by information as to
what we are doing to protect 1t,
must not be construed by the public
as an indication that the Navy has
done nothing about it. 1 can assure
the public that the Navy has al
ready adequately dealt with more
than one submarine which has
sought to make attacks on our naval
and merchant vessels. Immediate
announcement of the strength and
disposition of the United States
naval forces which are combating
enemy submarine, the methods that
we have used, and the place and
time of our attacks upon them would
provide the enemy with military in
formation which he would dearly
love to obtain.
g. Therefore, I do not propose
now. nor in the future to make i'm
mediate announcement of the de-
struction of enemy forces unless I
am satisfied that the enemy himself
is fully informed on this subject.
From time to time I shall give a
summary of the losses we have in
f1icted on the enemy. and shall in
dicate the general locality of these
actions.
q For example. after careful
weighing of the evidence I can now
state that in the Atlantic Ocean,
United States naval forces have up
to the present time probably sunk or
damaged at least IA enemy subma-
rines.
This probability. as we'll as the
prevalence of the bitter North At
lantic winter weather which the
Germans do not seem to like, may