Presence of Japanese merchant raider in Indian Ocean expected according to the U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary dated 16 January 1942

An item reported that the presence of a Japanese and not a German merchant raider in the Indian Ocean was suspected regarded the loss of a British ship on the Capetown, South Africa-Bombay, India route.

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Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary dated 16 January 1942 No. 37