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SHIP LOSSES IN JULY U.S. COUNTERS U-BOATS SUCCESS OF MEASURES (British Official Wireless.) (10.30 a.m.) RUGBY, Aug. 12 Losses suffered by the Norwegian mercantile marine in July were less than half those suffered in the best of the six previous months, states the Norwegian Minister of Shipping, Major Arne Lund, who has just returned from America. Major Lund said that provisional estimates of shipping losses for the past month made by the United States authorities showed there had been a considerable reduction. The American authorities believed that they had gone a long way in combating the U-boat menace on .the east coast.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20861, 13 August 1942, Page 3
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