ALLIED SUPREMACY.
AMERICAN ADMIRAL’S VIEW. WASHINGTON, April 17. The Chief of Naval Operations (Admiral Stark),' continuing his testimony before the Senate Naval Affairs Committee, said that there was no evidence that the Allied supremacy at sea was threatened. Aircraft hud been responsible lor sinking pnly one warcraft, namely, the destroyer Gurkha. Admiral Stark said he estimated the Allied and neutral merchant shipping losses for the last six months to be f 586,000 tons, which was only onethird that suffered during the corresponding period of unrestricted submarine warfare in 1917. He estimated the British loss at 818,000 tons, which was under a twentieth of the tonnage at the outbreak of the war, and only 1 per cent, of these sinkings were of vessels in convoy. A message from Cairo states that the Egyptian Prime Minister hag telegraphed to Mr Chamberlain: In my own name and that of the Government T offer sincere congratulations anu admiration for the victory of the Royal Navy, which is worthy of its glouous traditions.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 120, 19 April 1940, Page 7
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