BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC
FIGURES FOR EIGHT MONTHS (Rec. 12.10 p.m.) Ne w York, Aug. 31. The Associated Press of America says that in the eight months of this year 449 Allied and neutral ships were sunk, 3000 seamen lost, and 13,810 rescued. June was the worst month there being 109 sinkings, which thereafter dropped astonishingly in July to 45 and in August to 23. The Washington Navy Department announced that a medium-sized Dutch merchantman was torpedoed and sunk late in June off the northern coast of South America. Survivors landed at a United States port.—P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 1 September 1942, Page 2
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