(The report states a cruiser was damaged by aircraft at Port Blair. Post-war Japanese records indicate that the destroyer Yugiri was bombed at Port Blair on Mar. 3, the extent of damage is not noted, but light damage is indicated. A cruiser, Naka, was heavily damaged by a torpedo from USS Seawolf SS-197 off Christmas Island on Apr. 1. The Japanese only lost one auxiliary warship and one submarine in April of 1942. Without doing a detailed analysis, Japanese merchant losses for April 1942 were seven sunk, two possibly sunk for a total of 42,796 GRT. Only one other cruiser and one other destroyer and one other auxiliary ship were damaged by Allied forces during the month, the cruiser by a submarine.)

(The report claims that U.S. Naval forces recently sank another two German submarines, making the total number of U-boats sunk by the U.S. to twenty-one. [The other seven submarines were sunk in the Pacific.] This was the propaganda released by the U.S. Navy, the reality was quite different. To date, only two U-boats had been sunk by U.S. Naval forces, neither of them by a warship or off the U.S. east coast. The first U-Boat sunk by U.S. forces was U-656, which was sunk on Mar. 1, 1942 by a Lockheed Hudson flown by Ens. William Tepuni, USNR of VP-82. This was off Newfoundland. A second, U-503, was sunk off Newfoundland, also by an aircraft of VP-82, on Mar. 15th. The first U-boat sunk off the U.S. east coast was U-85, which was sunk by USS Roper DD-147 on Apr. 14, 1942. Note that in this same report yesterday, the number of new U-boats sunk had been three.)

(Japanese landing 100 klm. away from India.)