WORLD SHIPPING
LOSSES DUE TO THE WAR. CHAMBER OF SHIPPING ESTIMATES. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) LONDON, February 24. The United Kingdom Chamber of Shipping Annual estimates that the total world loss of merchant shipping, due to the war, to the end of 1941, was between 13 million and 14 million tons. The world total of shipping in June, 1939 was 63 million tons. Allied losses are estimated at 8,600,000 tons, and Axis losses at between four and five million tons.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 February 1942, Page 4
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85WORLD SHIPPING Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 February 1942, Page 4
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