FIGURES FOR WEEK
(British Official Wlreles3.) (Received November 27, 10 a.m.)
RUGBY, November 26.
Mercantile shipping losses, British, Allied, and neutral, due to enemy action in the week ending November 17 totalled 59,534 tons —slightly less than the average for the whole war, but considerably less than the average since intensified attacks began at the end of May. The total.is made up of fourteen British ships, 50,449 tons; two Allied, 7769 tons; and one neutral, 1316 tons.
The Germans claim to have sunk, during the same period, 131,340 tons —an exaggeration of 120 per cent.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 129, 27 November 1940, Page 7
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