ASTONISHING DROP
United Nations’ Shipping
Losses
NEW YORK, August 31
The Associated Press of America says that’ tabulations in connexion with the Battle of the Atlantic during the past eight months show that 449 Allied and neutral ships have been sunk, and that 3000 seamen have been lost and 13,810 rescued. June was the worst month with 109 sinkings, after which the sinkings dropped astonishingly to 45 in July and 23 in August.
The Navy Department announced that, a medium-sized Dutch merchantman was torpedoed and sunk late in June off the northern coast of South America, ami that survivors landed at a United States port.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 287, 2 September 1942, Page 5
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105ASTONISHING DROP Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 287, 2 September 1942, Page 5
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