SHIPPING LOSSES
HEAVIER IN LATEST WEEK BUT BELOW WAR AVERAGE. VIEWS OF NAVAL EXPERTS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Dav. 9.20 a.m.) RUGBY. February 11. Mercantile shipping losses due to enemy action for the week ended at midnight on February 2 totalled fifteen ships of 57,263 tons, comprising eleven British vessels of 40,429 tons, three Allied ships of 13,872 tons, and one neutral of 2962 tons. The Germans claimed during this period to have sunk 63.877 tons of merchant shipping and the Italians 25.000 tons, making the total enemy claim 88.877 tons. Naval experts say these losses in no way out of the ordinary. The January weekly average certainly was as low as 34.000 tons, but the December average was 69.000 tons, that of November. 86.000 tons and that of September. 100.000 tons. Britain definitely is holding her own in mercantile traffic, but it must be remembered that the arrival of spring may mean an intensification of the U-boat campaign.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 February 1941, Page 5
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160SHIPPING LOSSES Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 February 1941, Page 5
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