BRITISH SHIPPING
LOSSES FOR ONE WEEK HEAVIEST OF THE WAR ißritish Official Wireless) RUGBY, Oct. 2. (Received Oct. 3. at 7 p.m.) The British, Allied and neutral shipping losses for the week ended September 22 are officially stated to be 159,288 tons, or nearly 50.000 more than the previous heaviest week (ended August 25 last) The temporary upward trend in losses was not unexpected since the German occupation of French ports on the Bay of Biscay was bound to result in increased activity by enemy submarines in the Atlantic. Based on Brest Lorient and Bordeaux, they are many hundreds of miles nearer the Atlantic hunting grounds than at Kiel and Wilhelmshaven
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24420, 4 October 1940, Page 7
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111BRITISH SHIPPING Otago Daily Times, Issue 24420, 4 October 1940, Page 7
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