GERMAN U BOATS
RESULTS OF NAVAL HUNT AVERAGE OF MORE THAN THREE A WEEK SUNK. IMPROVEMENT ON GREAT WAR FIGURES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON. September 21. A communique issued by the Ministry of Information announced that the sinkings of submarines in a fortnight worked out at an average of three to three and a half weekly, compared with an average of just over one a week in 1917 and one and a half a week in 1918. A Daventry broadcast said that when the present war began it was believed ,that Germany possessed about 30 ocean-going submarines ready for sea.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 September 1939, Page 4
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100GERMAN U BOATS Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 September 1939, Page 4
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