ALLEGED LOSSES

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 21, 25 January 1940, Page 11

ALLEGED LOSSES

CLAIMS BY GERMAN PRESS AND RADIO

(Received January 25, Ip.m.) RUGBY, January 24. ' The German Press and broadcasts in foreign languages continue to proclaim ..that the losses of British oil tankers have been, very heavy. Sinkings of more than 20, British tankers have been claimed.

A list of British ships alleged to have been sunk was.published in the "Bremer Zeitung" oh December ,29. This list contained the names of 20 or more so-called British tankers which* Germany claimed to have sunk. Six of the vessels shown as tankers were 'ordinary cargo vessels and not tankers at all—namely, the Rio Claro, the Gartavon, the Aviemore, the Kafiristan, the Akenside, iand the Horsted. These ships total about 20,000 tons gross. The same list claimed as having been sunk the tankers Appalachee, Tornus, and Abbey dale. These ships, which total some 25,000 tons\gross, are all safe. The coastal tanker Africa Shell (706 tons) is shown in the list as of 7060 tons. She was sunk by the great guns of the 10,000-ton battleship Admiral Graf Spec. r