ITALY'S LOSSES AT SEA
SUBSTANTIAL RISE
ESTIMATE OF FLEET'S
STRENGTH
RUGBY, October 25,
"It is a wonder to me that Italian merchantmen k are still willing to go to sea, in vie-fy of the extraordinary losses they have sustained, but probably they are driven to it," said Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, Com-mander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean, in an interview today. "The enemy losses have substantially increased above the losses of previous months, when they were estimated at 20 per cent, of the sailings."
Admiral Cunningham said he estimated that the Italian fleet, having had time to carry out repairs, and taking into account new launchings, probably now consisted of four or five battleships, two or probably four cruisers with eight-inch guns, up to 14 cruisers with six-inch guns, and numerous destroyers, the total of which it was impossible to estimate. The Italian submarine losses were about 33 per cent. —8.0. W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 102, 27 October 1941, Page 7
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