ALLIED SHIPPING LOSSES
First Lord Refutes Enemy Claims ( Received November 1-1. 8.20 p.m.p LONDON, November 13. German claims of having sunk during the first year of the war 4,323,000 tons of British and Allied shipping were refuted in the House of Commons by the First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. Alexander, who stated that merchant ships of all tonnages, including fishing vessels, sunk in this period mid also including neutral vessels, totalled 2,855,870 gross tons. Of these British losses totalled 400 ships of 1,011,842 tons; Allied losses, 103 vessels of 474.816 tons: and neutral losses. 253 ships of 769.212 tons. It. would be noticed that the Germans had not mentioned neutral tonnage. the inclusion of which would presumably have swelled their already greatly-cxaggerated totals. During the same period the enemy lost. 261. ships of about 1.269,000J0n5. .Mr. Alexander said that 3327 monikers of the crews or passengers in British and Allied ships had been lost. 15,635 saved and 1100 made prisoner or interned.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 44, 15 November 1940, Page 8
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163ALLIED SHIPPING LOSSES Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 44, 15 November 1940, Page 8
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