SUPREMACY AT SEA
FIRMLY HELD BY ALLIES. AMERICAN ADMIRAL’S VIEW. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. WASHINGTON. April 17. The Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Stark, continuing his testimony before the Senate Naval Affairs Committee. said that there was no evidence that the Allied supremacy at sea was threatened. Aircraft had been responsible for sinking only one warcraft, namely, the destroyer Gurkha. Admiral Stark said he estimated the Allied and neutral merchant shipping losses for the last six months to be 1.586,000 tons, which was only onethird that suffered during the corresponding period of unrestricted submarine warfare in 1917. He estimated the British loss at 818.000 tons, which was under a twentieth of the tonnage at the outbreak of the war. and only 1 per cent, of these sinkings were of vessels in convoy.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 April 1940, Page 4
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