SHIPPING LOSSES.
BELOW THE AVERAGE,
HEAVY ENEMY AGGREGATE
(British Official Wireless.) (Rec. 9.20 a.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 24. Mercantile shipping losses due to enemy action in the week ending September 15-16 were: Vessels. Tonnage. British 9 29,246 Allied 4 12,575 Neutral 3 7379 Both the British and total losses were below the average for the previous 53 weeks of 54,323 tons. The German claims during the same period amount to 127,350 tons of merchant shipping sunk. The German losses (captured., scuttled and sunk) up to (September 22 amount to approximately 1,043,000 tons, and the Italian to 291,000 —a total of 1,334,000 tons. In addition, some 33,000 tous of ex-neutral ships which had been seized or brought under control by the enemy have been sunk.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 255, 25 September 1940, Page 7
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