MERCHANT SHIPPING
BRITISH AND ENEMY LOSSES. NO ALLIED TRANSPORTS LOST ON NORWAY ROUTE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day. 10.5 a.m.) LONDON. April 23. British losses as the result of enemj" action last week were three ships, tototalling 11.352 tons. There were no neutral losses. German losses include the Turfenfritzen, of 4,465 tons, reported to have been sunk south of Stockholm, possibly by a mine. British warships captured the trawler Rhein and submarines sank a 3.000 tonner. a 6000 tonner, also another ship while in a convoy on April 20. in addition to four others on April 15. The total German losses are now estimated at 450.000 tons and their losses at Narvik arc believed to have been 52.108 tons, including the Jan Wellem. The British total losses of merchantmen is 672,778 tons. There are still no transports lost in the Norwegian campaign.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 April 1940, Page 7
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