LAST WEEK'S LOSSES

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 19, 23 January 1940, Page 8

LAST WEEK'S LOSSES

SHIPPING WAR

FOUR BRITISH, TEN NEUTRAL

{Received January 23, 2 p.m.) ' LONDON, January 22. - Four British and ten neutral ships, \ totalling 59,266 tons, were lost last ' week. All the British vessels were <* Bunk by mines on the west coast, indicating that the campaign is widespread - outside the North Sea. The Admiralty announced the jaames of two officers and 25 ratings 1 trom the liner Rawalpindi who are prisoners in Germany. V ' (Daventry Broadcast.). LONDON, Monday Night. 1 ' A Greek steamer of 5000 tons has f been sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Portugal. Six of the crew f were killed, and 12 were picked up by 1 an Italian steamer. Two Portuguese - naval vessels are searching for a lifeboat in which there are ten other survivors. A small naval trawler is overdue, and ■ must be presumed to have been sunk. ' She carried a crew of nine.. '.. 1 ': BLOW TO NEUTRAL SHIPPING ~. J * (Daventry Broadcast.) LONDON, Monday Night.-,' Neutral shipping has been- dealt a « ftirther blow by Germany's decision to I her pilot service through the' ; STazi minefields. Sailings from the ' Danish coast have had to be suspended ,; "because of the danger from amines. The ■ German decision is said to have been " taken because of ice which is drastic- ' ally curtailing the movement, of ships. ,> Big steamers can no lortger .enter ■ " Copenhagen harbour without help, and . most of the; ice-breakers have more to i do than they can manage. .