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81 DECEMBER 1948 PRI ORITT FROMs RAR # 4167 TO: ANMISCA, CHUNGKING FOR GENERAL STILWBLL'S ETES ONLY FOR DELIVERT OF THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT TO GENERALISSIMO CHIANG EAI-SHEX, FOR YOUR CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION I KNOW YOU WILL BE INTERESTED TO LEARN THAT DURING THE LAST THREE MONTHS of NINETEEN FORTY THREE OUR UNITED STATES SUBMARINES HAVE SUNK A TOTAL OF TWENTY-TWO JAPANESE SHIPS AMOUNTING TO NEARLY TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND TONS EMPLOYED IN SUPPLY SERVICE TO CHINESE, INDO-CHINESE, SIAWESE AND MALAYAN PORTS. IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO STATE WHAT VAST QUANTITY OF STORES WEPE THUS LOST TO THE ENEMY. THE ABOVE FIGURES WERE ACCOMPLISHED BY OUR SUB- MARINES ALONE AND THE LOSSES IMPOSED BY CUR CHINESE-AMERICAN AIR FORCES ARE IN ADDITION. ROOSEVELT Released from the White Houso Map Room at 1210, ENT, 31 December 1943. DICLASSIFIZD L. MATHEWSON, Az Deyuty Archivist of the U.S: Colonel, General Staff. ex y. J. Stewart DatoMar 9 1975 Bn 1