ALLIED SUPREMACY AT SEA
U.S. Admiral Confident (Received April 18, 7.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, April 17. The Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Stark, continuing his testimony before the Senate Naval Affairs. Committee, said that there was no evidence that the Allied supremacy at sea was threatened. Aircraft had been respou sible for sinking only one warcrali, namely, the destroyer Gurkha. Admiral Stark said he estimated the Allied and neutral merchant shipping losses for the last six months io be 1.55G.000 tons, which was only onethird thar suffered during the corresponding period of unrestricted submarine warfare in 1917. He estimated the British loss at SIS,OOO tons, which was under a twentieth of the tonnage at the outbreak of Ihe war. and only 1 per cent, of these sinkings were of vessels in convoy.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 175, 19 April 1940, Page 9
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