WAR CABINET REPORT.
WORK OF OUR NAVY. (Received This Day at I’-.-'o. 0.LONDON Alarch 19. '{'be War Cabinet report of the proceedings in 1917 is continued in a Blue, Book of over two hundred pages. It shows that we have lent over a million tons of shipping to France, and half a million to Italy. Referring to anti-submarine measures it states there are 8.400 mine-sweepers and auxiliary patrol craft. The convoy system has proved markedly effective. ATore than ninety per cent of the Atlantic shipping was convoyed. Our losses of convoyed ships was only .58 per cent.
The British Admiralty believes that between 40 and 50 per cent, of the German submarines operating in Home waters fpr the war period have been captured or destroyed. < Our total net reduction of tonnage, of ships of over sixteen hundred tons amounted to 2,750,000 tons during the war period to the year end—equalling sixteen per cent.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 March 1918, Page 3
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