MERCHANT SHIPPING
LOSSES UNDER ENEMY ATTACKS SOMEWHAT HIGHER AGAIN. BUT MUCH BELOW NAZI CLAIMS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 22. Mercantile losses by enemy action are somewhat higher again, though not much in excess of the average for the whole of the past year and only about half the German claims. Figures relating to the week ended at midnight on October 13 show that seven British vessels totalling 32,370 tons gross were lost and that three Allied and three neutral vessels totalling 17,537 and 13,353 tons respectively, were also lost. The grand total was 63,265 tons, compared with 122,041 tons which the enemy claimed to have sunk in this period.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 October 1940, Page 5
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