MUSSOLINI’S HUGE SEA LOSSES
'(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 1. It is stated officially in Alexandria that 2,366,000 tons of Axis merchant shipping have been sunk or damaged in the Mediterranean since Italy entered tho war, including 1,479,000 tons entirely destroyed. The enemy has also lost in the Mediterranean four 8-inch-gun cruisers, five 6-ineh-gun cruisers, and about' 50 destroyers, and miscelleanous craft. The Axis submarine losses cannot be disclosed, but they aro known to have been considerable. All told, Mussolini has Jost about half his navy’s striking 'power, and more than two-thirds of bis merchant fleet has been sunk or damaged. It is doubtful whether Italy has been able to build to replace her heavy losses, because of the shortage of steel. It is known that for a while Italy had to stop progress on two new battleships because of a lack of steel.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 288, 3 September 1942, Page 5
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144MUSSOLINI’S HUGE SEA LOSSES Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 288, 3 September 1942, Page 5
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