WAR AT SEA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 September 1941, Page 5

WAR AT SEA

■ GOING WELL FOR BRITAIN LOSSES DURING PAST TWO MONTHS ENEMY’S THREE TIMES GREATER. IN SPITE OF PRESENTING FEWER TARGETS. LONDON, September 9. Speaking in the House of Commons on the war at sea, All- Churchill said it had gone well for Britain in the past two months, but he warned his hearers that there should be no vain talk about the Battle of the Atlantic having been won. Our shipping losses in July and August were only about one-third of the German and Italian losses in that period to our aircraft and submarines —this although British ships presented ten or perhaps 20 times the number of targets presented to us by enemy ships. Mr Churchill paid a glowing tribute to the work of British submarines. In 1941 they had sunk or severely damaged 17 enemy warships and 105 supply ships had fallen to their torpedoes. ENEMY SHIPS SUNK IN THE CHANNEL & MEDITERRANEAN. LONDON, September 9. An enemy supply ship of 4,000 tons has been sunk in the English Channel and another supply ship and an E-boat have probably been sunk. In the Mediterranean one of our submarines torpedoed and sank a large Italian schooner. Another submarine hit and damaged two supply lighters off Benghazi. One may have been sunk.