The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-12
Nazi Marshal Rornmel Will Play Great Part
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 anese naval minister recounted Jap ans naval losses in the Pacific as 27 transports and 19 warships.
 Tojo, speaking as war minister, said that Japanese forces since the outbreak of the war had taken 210,- 900 prisoners, 10000 tanks, armored cars and truclA He said that 1,60O enemy aircraft had been shot down or destroyed. Tojo said these figures did not include gains on the Bur- mese war front.
 The premier addressed the house of peers and house of represent atives which had been reconvened to hear reports on the war effort and to celebrate the surrender of the Dutch East Indies and the occupa- tion of Rangoon.
 Tn his report, Naval Minister Ad- miral Shigetaro Shimada told the Diet that the Allies had lost total of 130 warshipS, including seven battlesh.ps and and three aircraft carriers.
 Japanese Report
 Tokyo, March 12 (Japanese broadcast recorded by United Press at New York) - Navy Minister Ad- t1uiral Shigetaro Shimada told the Diet today that Japan had lost 27 transports and 19 warshipS in the Pacific conflict so far but asserted that the Allies had lost total of 130 warshipS, including seven battle ships and three aircraft carriers.
 In report to the Diet, Shimada said that the Allies had lost 128 merchandising sunk and 502 cap turend while he said that 1854 AL lied planes had been destroyed. The Japanese, he said, have lost 122 air. planes.
 Giving figures for the conflict up to the present and including the battle of Java, the naval minister said that four allied battleships and 27 other warships had been damaged badly in addition to those listed as sunk.
 The Japanese list of Allied war ship losses included
 Seven battleships, three aircraft carriers, 12 cruisers, g destroyers, A submarines and 42 other naval units.
 The same list showed the follow ing Japanese warShip losses:
 Four destroyerS, four submarines, five special submarines (probably two-man craftIsuch as used at Pearl Harbor); one Special service boat, five minesweepers and 27 transports all sunk.
 Shimada said that the 128 Allied merchant ships sunk so far totalled CSC, 900 tons but that 92 Allied mer- chantships, totaling 300,000 tons, also had been damaged.
 5O2 Ships Captured ~ The 502 ships captured, he said, totaled POI ,00 tons.
 T wish to repeat once again that the Imperial navy has not lost a single vessel above the cruiser class" he said, "and naval operations are progressing favcrably.
 With the occupation of Java and Rangoon, mastery of the sea and air over the vast southwestern area including the Indian ocean has been attained.
 "A great stride has been made in the military situation in the greater East Asia war
 The navy minister again named the United States cruiser Houston as being sunk in the battle of Java, where five other British, Australian and Dutch cruisers, "as well as seven submarines, eight destroyers, one gunboat and one minesweeper were sunk"
 He repeated that, in cooperation with army units tn Java, the 1m- perial fleet had sunk the U. s. cruiser Marblehead, two destroyers, one gunboat and 52 merchantmen thereby isolating Java island and accelerating the unconditional sur render of the N. E. I. forces within nine days after the Japanese land ing" She said that 52 Allied merchant men were sunk in the battle Of Java.
 Shimada said that Japan's de- lenses were strong and that the 1m- perial navy had "repulsed" and AL lied attempt to attack Japanese bases, including the Marshall islands, the waters east of New Guinea Con Feb. 22), Wake Island (Feb. 2D ; and Minamitori Island (March A
 He added that the navy air force on March 4 bombed the U. s. ar- senal at Pearl Harbor and that a submarine "daringly shelled' the Santa Barbara area on the Cali f0r1lia coast