ALLIES CANNOT BE STARVED
T3VT3N ASSUMING THE GREATEST LOSSES.
(Rec. May 27. 5.5 p.m.) Paris, May 26. Admiral Lacaze (French Minister of Marine), speakine in the Chamber. of Deputies, raid that 21 million tons of Allied shipping had been sunk in a period of four months. Taking into account new construction, if fte submarine warfare continued with, the same intensity, 41 million'tons of shipping might be sunk during 1917. out of a total tonnage of forty millions. This decrease in. tonnage was not goine to result in the starvation of the Allies By October next all the French merchantmen would be armed with two 4.7 in. guns.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn, 1
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3095, 28 May 1917, Page 5
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110ALLIES CANNOT BE STARVED Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3095, 28 May 1917, Page 5
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