ESTIMATES BY NAZIS
ENDING ROYAL NAVY FIVE SHIPS MONTHLY (Reed. Sept. 27. 9 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 26. The Copenhagen correspondent of (he Daily Express says that the duration of the war is merely a matter of mathematics, according to the Nazis, who claim that the British Fleet can be eliminated at the rate of five battleships monthly. With the whole fleet sunk the war would be as'good as over. The Nazis say that to sink one battleship costs them roughly 200 planes. A battleship takes three years to build, whereas Germany can produce 1000 planes monthly.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20053, 27 September 1939, Page 5
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96ESTIMATES BY NAZIS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20053, 27 September 1939, Page 5
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