MAY HAVE LOST 8000 MEN

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 184, 1 May 1940, Page 9

MAY HAVE LOST 8000 MEN

Nazis’ Sunken Troop Transports THREE WEEKS’ TOTAL By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. LONDON, April 29. The sinking of three German supply ships reported this morning by the Admiralty brings the known enemy losses sitjee they invaded Norway to 40 troop transports and supply ships. This estimate is given by the Admiralty as follows: 28 German transports known to have been sunk; one ship scuttled: one set on lire; and 10 hit by torpedoes and probably sunk. To this total must be added the unknown number sunk by mines which tlie British Navy laid in the Skagerrak. If only half of the 40 were carrying troops and each had, say, 400 on board, Germany may well have lost 8000 troops intended for Norway. As reported. 3000 bodies were washed up on the shore of Oslo Fiord. On the other hand, Germany’s attempts to make the waters of the Norwegian west coast untenable have brought only slight results.