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...touches the sea with her feet" is a major Balkan port, served as an Allied base in World War I. Destroyed by a famous two-day fire in 1917, it was rebuilt as a modern city. Last week it was a shambles again; more than 50 ships had been sunk in its wide harbor, its docks and warehouses smashed by the retiring Germans...
...observers in the Pacific learned long ago that Japanese generals and admirals habitually deceive their own superiors at home. When Radio Tokyo claimed that the U.S. had lost the war, the desk admirals in Tokyo might well have believed that their admirals afloat in Philippine waters had actually sunk 17 transports, eight destroyers, eleven carriers, eleven cruisers, etc., as they had publicly claimed...
...Sunk 88 warships (including at least five carriers), probably sunk 25, damaged 89 - total...
...Sunk 282 merchant craft, probably sunk 78, damaged 233 - total...
After two hours, she lay on her side and went down quietly. After another hour, a smaller carrier went down. Yet another of the same (Titose) class was sunk by air attack. One of the Zuiho class was polished off by cruiser gunfire, and so was a destroyer flotilla leader. A damaged cruiser was knocked out during the night by a lurking submarine. Both battleships in the force were damaged...