FAILURE AT SEA
SINKINGS BY GERMANS ONE-TENTH OF ESTIMATE LONDON, Sept, 19. By failing to achieve their estimated rate of merchant ship sinkings, the Germans have suffered a naval defeat as serious a. any surface battle with capital ships. At the outset, the enemy estimated that 500,000 tons of British and Allied shipping would be destroyed every week (says the naval correspondent of the Manchester Guardian). Actually, during a year of wai he says, the Germans have achieved only one-tenth of their hopes, as the total loss of 2,771,333 tons works out at only 55,000 tons a week The year’s total is made up as follows:—British. 1.539,196 tons: Allied. 462.924; neutral, 769,213 Britain’s losses have been counterbalanced bj new construction, plus the addition of 1,500.000 tons of Belgian, Dutch, French, and Norwegian ships. Additions undei these two headings constitute a greater aggregate tonnage lhan was available at the outbreak of war
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24417, 1 October 1940, Page 7
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151FAILURE AT SEA Otago Daily Times, Issue 24417, 1 October 1940, Page 7
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