NAVY’S WORK
ACTIVITIES DURING FOUR MONTHS. GOODS SEIZED BY CONTRABAND CONTROL. Though mine and submarine were used to the limit against British merchant shipping from the first day of this war. the monthly average of tonnage lost in the first four months is only two-thirds of the average monthly losses during the 1914-1918 war. It is only about one-third of the average monthly losses of 1917. the worst year. Naval losses are barely one-half of those in the first four months of the last war. Up to January 6, 1940, 5.911 ships had sailed in convoy. Only 12 of these were lost by enemy action. For every 1.000 tons of British shipping sunk. 110,000 has safely entered British ports. Up to December 30. 1939. cargoes destined for Germany seized in prize by British contraband control amounted to 538,100 tons —212,300 tons more than the total loss, in the same period, of cargoes consigned to Britain in British ships.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 February 1940, Page 9
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158NAVY’S WORK Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 February 1940, Page 9
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