GAIN IN SHIPPING
DESPITE ENEMY ACTION. MR CHURCHILL GIVES FIGURES. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.10 a.m.) LONDON, October 11. Mr Winston Churchill stated in the House of Commons: “Between September 24 and October 9 we had lost by submarine action 5,809 tons of shipping. but had taken from the enemy 13,615 tons, so that there was a balance in our favour of 7,806 tons,” he added. "There have been no further losses since October 9, and during the period fifty thousand tons of new shipping has come into commission, so we are 58,000 tons better off than when I made my last statement.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 October 1939, Page 8
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