MERCANTILE SHIPPING
FALL IN BRITISH LOSSES DESPITE SINKING OF EMPRESS OF BRITAIN. ADDITIONAL ENEMY VESSELS CAPTURED OR SUNK. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 9.20 a.m.) RUGBY, November 5. Mercantile shipping losses due to enemy action for the week ending October 28 were eight ships of 16,860 total tonnage, comprising six British ships of 9986 tons and two Allied ships of 6874 tons. Besides there was the loss of the 42,348 tons Empress of Britain, which has already been announced. The Germans claim a total of 33,000 tons of merchant shipping sunk, excluding the Empress of Britain. Enemy losses to October 31 are:— German, 226 ships of 1,132,639 tons, an increase of 65,639 tons since September 29; Italian. 72 ships of 365,661 tons, an increase 71,661 tons, and 27 other enemy vessels of 44,190 tons, under enemy control or useful to the enemy, an increase of 11,190 tons.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 November 1940, Page 5
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