SHIPPING LOSSES

Evening Star, Issue 23690, 25 September 1940, Page 10

SHIPPING LOSSES

BELOW WEEKLY AVERAGE GERMANY’S FANTASTIC CLAIMS (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 24. (Received September 25, at 9.20 a.m.) Mercantile losses due to enemy action in the week ending September 15-16 were nine British vessels, totalling 29,246 tons, four Allied (12,575 tons), and three neutral (7,379 tons). Both the British and the total losses were below the average for the previous 53 weeks of 54,323 tons. German claims during the same period amount to 127,350 tons of merchant shipping .sunk. The German losses (captured, scuttled, and sunk) up to September 22 amount to approximately 1,043,000 tons, and the Italian to 291,000, a total of 1,334,000 tons. In addition, some 33,000 tons of ex-neutral ships which had been seized or brought under control by the enemy have been sunk. PRESUMED LOST BRITISH SUBMARINE THAMES {British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 21. (Received September 25, at 9.55 a.m.) The Admiralty announces that H.M. Submarine Thames is overdue and must be presumed lost.

M. PADEREWSKI LEAVING EUROPE FOR AMERICA ZURICH, September 24. (Received September 's, at 10.30 a.m.) M. Paderewski is''leaving for America. He is selling his villa at Lake Geneva, and is not likely to return to Europe. SINGAPORE ARRESTS PROTEST BY JAPAN TOKIO, September 24. (Received September 25, at 11.50 a.m.) Mr Ohasi (Vice-Foreign Minister) summoned Sir Robert Craigie and protested against the arrest of six Japanese at Singapore. INTEREST-FREE LOAN NORTHERN RHODESIA'S DECISION (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 24. (Received September 25, at 11.55 a.m.) The Legislative Council of Northern Rhodesia unanimously resolved to grant a loan of £200,000 from surplus balances to the British Government free of interest for the duration of the war. ARMY CASUALTIES WAR OFFICE'S LIST LONDON, September 24. (Received September 25, at noon.) The War Office's forty-eighth casualty list names 130 men, including three officers and 56 rankers killed and two officers and 48 rankers wounded. THREE BRITISH SHIPS DETAINED BY JAPANESE SHANGHAI, September 23. Three British ships are detained in China coast waters by Japanese. They are the Jessie Moller, the Edith Moller, and the Kongso. The British Embassy says that the Japanese have not yet replied to the British representations requesting an explanation of the incident when the Japanese shelled and detained the British vessel Marie Moller on September 20.

UNREST IN YUGOSLAVIA ITALIAN-INSPIRED AGITATION SEVERAL EXECUTIONS LONDON, September 24. The Athens correspondent of the ‘ Daily Express ’ says the Yugoslavian situation is grave. The Albanian minority, inspired from Italy, is reported to have attempted during the last few days to overthrow the Government. Anarchist and Communist movements in the Skoplje and Kossovo districts are also believed to be Italian-backed. A number of men connected with these movements have been arrested and executed. CONDITIONS IN FRANCE NEW RATIONING DISMAYS POPULATION DISCONTENT RUNNING HIGH IN TOWNS LONDON, September 24. (Received September 25, at 1.40 p.m.) The correspondent of ‘ The Times 1 on the French frontier states the new rationing regulations have dismayed the French population, which was unaware that conditions were so critical. The average Frenchman considers that 100 grammes of rice monthly for children, 100 grammes of fat and 100 grammes of cheese far below the safe minimum, whil 125 grammes of soap monthly per capita is believed dangerous to health. France must deliver to the German army of occupation all the amy’s bread and part of its meat requirements. Discontent is very high in towns where the severity of rationing has increased the unpopularity of the Retain Government, which has precautionarily withdrawn civil government from five chief towns in unoccupied Franco. POLISH SQUADRON OF R.A.F. TWO DECORATIONS AWARDED LONDON, September 24. (Received September 25, at 1.40 p.m.) The D.S.M. has been awarded to Sergeant Jozef Frantisek, of the Polish Squadron of the R.A.F. ,He is the first Pole to win a British flying award. He destroyed five planes in a week. Flying-officer Count Manfred Czernin, who was horn in Berlin, was awarded the D.F.G. He destroyed nine planes, three in one action. CONVENTION OF HAVANA TRUSTEESHIP OVER EUROPEAN POSSESSIONS "WASHINGTON, September 24. (Received September 25, at 1.40 p.m.) The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has unanimously approved the Convention of Havana, providing PanAmerican trusteeship over European possessions in this hemisphere if threatened. AMERICAN NAVY ATLANTIC SQUADRONS BEING STRENGTHENED SHANGHAI, September 24. ((Received September 25, at 9.15 a.m.) The Domei Agency’s correspondent at Honolulu reports that the United States is strengthening the Atlantic squadrons by gradually withdrawing units from the Pacific. RUMANIAN- ARMY SUBSTANTIAL DEMOBILISATION BUCHAREST, September 24. (Received September 25, at 10.30 a.m.) It is officially stated that Rumania is demobilising 40 per cent, of its army for supplying agricultural labour. AIR CASUALTY MARLBOROUGH PILOT LOST [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, September 25. The following Air Force casualty was announced to-day: Pilot-officer Howard Perry Hill, previously reported missing, now reported killed in operations. His father is Mr J. S. Hill, of Marlborough.