WARFARE AT SEA
LOSS OF ALLIED SHIPS GERMAN CLAIMS DENIED COMPARISON WITH LAST WAR (omcial Wireless) (Received August 9, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, August 8 Although it is not pretended that the German success against shipping is slight, so far the highest figure of tonnage sunk in any four weeks has not reached half the total sunk at the peak in four weeks of the last war. In spite, of German boasts, headlined in the Nazi press yesterday, that their fleet and air arm had exceeded the successes scored against Britain by the Imperial Navy in 1917, the figures show that in a single month, April of that year, the German Navy sank 881,000 tons, being the highest total reached, whereas the present peak of the four weeks from June 2 to June 30 shows that 377,260 tons of British, Allied and neutral shipping fell victims to all forms of German action. The next four-week period, from July 1 to July 28, shows a slight reduction. During that period 310,249 tons were sunk by the combined efforts of submarines, U-boats, air and mine attacks.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21187, 9 August 1940, Page 5
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183WARFARE AT SEA Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21187, 9 August 1940, Page 5
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