WARFARE AT SEA
ATTACKS ON SHIPPING INTERESTING COMPARISON NAZIS’ HUGE LOSSES (Official Wireless) (Received Sept. 4, 3.15 p.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 3 The mercantile losses due to enemy action in the week ended August 25 were thirteen British ships, totalling 69,340 tons; one Allied vessel, 1718 tons; and two neutral ships, totalling 8692 tons, making 16 vessels in all, totalling 79,750 tons. This total is in excess of the average weekly loss since the commencement of hostilities, which was 52,500 tons. It is, however, below the average weekly loss of British. Allied and neutral shipping since May 27, when the enemy intensified its war on shipping. The weekly average over this period is 88,700 tons. For the week under review the enemy claims to have sunk 183,964 tons of shipping, which is considerably over twice the actual losses.
The German tonnage losses in ships captured, scuttled or sunk since the outbreak of the war amounted to approximately 923,000 tons and the Italian losses of 273,000 tons, making a grand total of 1,196,000 tons. The Allies also sunk 32.000 tons of shipping formerly neutral which had been seized by the enemy.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21209, 4 September 1940, Page 8
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189WARFARE AT SEA Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21209, 4 September 1940, Page 8
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