ASTOUNDING DROP
LOSSES IN ATLANTIC EIGHT MONTH’S FIGURES (1.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, Aug. 31. The Associated Press, reviewing the Battle of the Atlantic, issues a tabulation showing that in eight months 449 Allied and neutral ships were sunk, 3000 seamen lost, and 13.810 rescued. June .was the worst month with 109 sinkings. Thereafter the figuies dropped astonishingly. In July, 45 ships were lost and in August 23. The Navy Department has announced that a medium-sized Dutch merchantman was torpedoed and c-unlc late in June off the northern coast of South America. Survivors were landed at a United States poit.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20877, 1 September 1942, Page 4
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99ASTOUNDING DROP Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20877, 1 September 1942, Page 4
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