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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 141, 9 March 1940, Page 11

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Nazis’ Triple Threat At Sea SURVEY IN PARIS Reported British Sinking Of Another U-Boat (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) LONDON, March 7. The Rome radio announced that according to a message from Gibraltar a British warship sank a Üboat. Declaring that the Allies have broken the back of Germany’s triple sea threat, the French Naval Minister, M. Campinchi, announced that the destroyer Simoun had increased to 12 the number of U-boats which the French Navy has sunk since the outbreak of the war. M. Campinchi said tiiat IS,OOO tons of German shipping had been captured, and that France had sunk one submarine for every merchantman lost. The Germans had not sunk a single French warship. The enemy had succeeded in sinking 15 French merchantmen, totalling 71,511 tons, but new French merchantmen and the incorporation of captured ships in the French commercial fleet made the loss less than 2 per cent. The French ports and the imperial sea communications were free, despite mines, submarines, and planes. During the past six months, he said, the navy had convoyed 2000 vessels, comprising 300 convoys. Only four ships had been lost.