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BRITISH LOSSES AT SEA FIGURES FOR LATEST WEEK. FIFTH-LOWEST SINCE WAR BEGAN. • By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright i LONDON. January 14. British merchant shipping losses for the first week of the new year were the fifth lowest for any week since the war began. The Admiralty announced today that during this week only four British ships were lost, totalling less than 15.000 tons. There were no allied or neutral losses. Those losses are also the lowest since the week ended May 5. when three ships totalling less than 14.000 tons were lost.
Naval authorities think, the reduction in losses maybe due to the heavy and sustained R.A.F. attacks on bases m Germany and France from which German and Italian submarines operate. and also to the strengthening of convoy escorts.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 January 1941, Page 4
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