HEAVY LOSSES
GERMAN SHIPPING. EQUAL TO BRITISH. SEIZURES IN INDIES. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright,) Received May 15, 9.5 a.m. LONDON, May 14. The Admiralty announces that Germany lost 31 merchantmen totalling 171,049 tons in the week ended May 12. These included 26 vessels seized in the Dutch East Indies., Germany’s total shipping- losses during- the war almost equal the British. The British losses were one ship of GOOD tons. The Allies and neutrals lost none. . . British submarines have this month sunk at least nine 'more German transports and supply, sh'ps south from Norway and have' also chased ashore, a supply ship which H.M.S. Trident shelled. ■; .
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 141, 15 May 1940, Page 7
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