GERMAN BLOCKADE
23 Ships Sunk in Week RUGJ3Y, December 17. Although representing half the amount claimed by the enemy, the latest return discloses shipping losses which constitute what can only be i-rmed as a bad week. For the - seven days ended at midnight on December 8 101,190 tons of merchant shipping was sunk by enemy action, of these ships, totalling, 86,740 tons were British,, three Allied (12,937 tons) and one neutral (1513 tons). A German communique reports that motor torpedo-boats met a superior force of British destroyers during a sortie in the English Channel Q.n the night of December 15-10, and lost sight of the enemy, after a short engagement. They returned without sustaining damage.
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Grey River Argus, 19 December 1940, Page 6
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