WAR ON SHIPPING
WEEK'S LOSSES
LITTLE OVER HALF THOSE OF PREVIOUS REPORT
(Received July 24, 9 ajn.)
LONDON, July 23.
The Admiralty states that British, Allied, and neutral merchant shipping losses totalled 61,032 tons for the week ended July 14, comprising nine British ships totalling 32,963 tons, four Allied ships totalling 7335 tons, and six neutral vessels totalling 20,734 tons.
These losses represent a little over half the previous week's total.
A German claim to have sunk 4,329,213 tons of "enemy shipping or shipping useful to the enemy" since the outbreak of the war is more than 2,000,000 tons in excess of the actual British, Allied, and neutral losses.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 21, 24 July 1940, Page 9
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