LOSSES AT SEA

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 129, 27 November 1940, Page 7

LOSSES AT SEA

WHAT AXIS FORGETS

EMPIRE'S HUGE RESOURCES

FILLING THE GAPS ',

LONDON, November 26,

The total allied shipping losses through enemy action for the week ended November 17 were a little less than the weekly average since the war began, and much less than the average since intensified attacks on shipping began some weeks ago.

German propaganda about British shipping losses invariably ignores the huge shipping resources behind the Empire. A number of big merchant vessels are to be constructed for the British Government in Canada and new shipyards are being built in Australia. The British shipping mission in the United States is making plans for huge assembly plants turning ' out standardised freighters, and a significant article in the "New York Times" recently advocated pooling 11,000,000 tons of American merchant shipping with the British Merchant Service. Despite the loss of Zl million tons up to November 10, British additional tonnage by new building, purchase, and capture amounts to about 2,000,000 tons up to the end of August. Furthermore, the Axis Powers have already lost 1| million tons of shipping.