NOT ALL ONE-SIDED
The report of the destruction or irreparable damage done to 40,500 tons of enemy shipping in a week should help to correct the perspective in which we view the sea war. Hitherto our attention has been given mainly to the defensive aspect, especially in the Battle of the Atlantic. It is not always remembered that our losses are heavy because our shipping is still on all the seven seas. Enemy merchant and supply ships, on the other hand, provide only a small and shrinking target. Yet even in the coastal waters of the North Sea and the narrow straits of the middle Mediterranean enemy shipping finds no safe passage. The tremendous defensive measures necessary in the Battle of the Atlantic and in great troop and supply movements to the Middle East have not prevented us from hunting offensive action wherever enemy ships slink cautiously along the edge of, the blockade. All this traffic cannot be stopped, but it can be made most perilous and costly; and a probable loss of 40,500 tons in a week shows that the Navy and the Air Force are hitting hard wherever a head is seen.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 119, 22 May 1941, Page 8
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194NOT ALL ONE-SIDED Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 119, 22 May 1941, Page 8
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