MERCHANT SHIPPING
GERMAN LOSS OF 600,000 TONS FORMER PLEASURE LINER. SUNK WHILE SERVING AS TROOPSHIP. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received This Day, 9.10 a.m.) LONDON, May 7. The Admiralty stated that the Germans have lost 300,000 tons of merchant shipping since April 1, and a total of 600,000 tons since the outbreak of war, which is 15 per cent of Germany’s pre-war tonnage. Four British merchantmen, totalling 6689 tons, one Allied ship, of 1458 tons, and two neutral ships of 298 tons, were sunk by enemy action during the week ending on April 28. The British loss was one-third of the weekly average since the outbreak of war.
German shipping losses include the Strength Through Joy pleasure liner Robert Ley, converted into a troopship, which sank in the Skagerrak on the night of April 12-13.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 May 1940, Page 5
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