TWELVE U-BOATS
SUNK BY FRENCH NAVY MINISTER’S REVIEW GERMANY’S TRIPLE THREAT BROKEN. SEA COMMUNICATIONS FREE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.5 a.m.) PARIS, March 7. The Minister for the Navy (M. Cesar Campinchi) announced that the destroyer Simoun had just increased to twelve the number of U-boats the French Navy has sunk since the outbreak of war. He added that France had captured 18,000 tons of German shipping and had sunk one submarine for every merchantman lost. The Germans had not sunk one French warship. The enemy had succeeded in sinking fifteen French merchantmen!, totalling 71.511 tons, but new French merchantmen and the incorporation of captured ships in the French commercial fleet had made the loss under two per cent. French ports and imperial sea communications were free, despite mines, submarines and planes. During six months the Navy had convoyed two thousand vessels, comprising three hundred convoys. Only four ships had been lost. The Allies had broken the back of Germany's triple sea threat.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 March 1940, Page 5
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