ON THE SEA.
LOSSES IN SEPTEMBER. LOWEST SINCE AUGUST, 1918. Received Oct. 25, 1.25 a.m. London, Oct. 23. The Admiralty announces that the British merchant tonnage losses in September totalled 152,000 tons gross. Allied and and neutral combined totalled 88,000 tons. The aggregate constitutes the lowest monthly sinkings since August, 1016, and is below that year's monthly average. The total losses for the three months ended September are 893,000 tons, compared with 964,000 tons for the previous quarter, and 1,500,000 tons for the corresponding quarter of last year. Sailings of steamships exceeding Ave hundred gross tons, between the United Kingdom and overseas ports, excluding the cross-Channel traffic, was 7,500,000 tons during September.—Aus. and N.Z. I Cable Assoc and Reuter.
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Taranaki Daily News, 25 October 1918, Page 5
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119ON THE SEA. Taranaki Daily News, 25 October 1918, Page 5
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