JULY SHIPPING LOSSES.
COMPARISON WITH BRITISH 'BUILDING. London, August 22. The Dress Bureau reports: Tito following were the mercantile shipping losses in July: — Gross tons. British 176,47!) Allied ami Neutral ... 136,532 Total 313,011 Compared with the adjusted figures for June, these figures show an increase of 10,965 tons in the case of British, and of 20,552 tons ill foreign losses; and compared wit lithe losses in May, the July figures are lower by 55,301 tons in British and higher by 3,82!) in neutral losses. As compared with July, 1917, the total Joss is lower tons. The British losses in July exceeded the new construction in the yards of the United Kingdom by 34,531 tons; but in the same month 12,220 tons of shipping was constructed abroad by neutral builders on British account, so that the net deficit on the month is reduced to 22,311 tons, as compared with an average deficit during the first six months of this year of nearly 00,000 tons. The sailings to and from Great Britain during July were more numerous than evyr,
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1868, 24 August 1918, Page 3
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177JULY SHIPPING LOSSES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1868, 24 August 1918, Page 3
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