HEAVY TOLL

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 124, 24 April 1940, Page 9

HEAVY TOLL

GERMAN SHIPPING. LATEST SINKINGS. TOTAL STEADILY MOUNTS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Received April 24, 1u.5 a.m. LONDON, April 24. Tlic submarines Sea Lion, Snapper, and Sunfisli _ have returned to their base after sinking between 35,000 and 40,000 tons of enemy shipping, including transports. British losses as a result of enemy action last week were three ships, totalling 11,352 tons. There were no neutral losses.

‘ The German losses include the Jurgen Fritzen (4465 tons) reported to have been sunk south of Stockholm, possibly by a mine. British " warships captured the trawler Rhein and submarines sank a 3000-ton ship, a 6000-ton vessel, and also another ship while in convoy on April 20 in addition to lour others on April 15.

The total German losses are now estimated at 450,000 tons. Their losses at Narvik are believed to have been 52,108 tons, including the Jan Wellem. British total loss of merchantmen amount to 672,778 tons. Still no British transports have been lost in the Norwegian campaign. CONVOY SUCCESS. According to the British Official AYireless no vessel was lost in convoy in the week ended noon on April 17. An aggregate of 29 ships has been lost out of 17,746 British, Allied and neutral ships in British convoy, making the ratio of one in 612. Only three neutral ships have been lost out of 2830 convoyed—one ship in 943. Commander G. C. Phillips, of the submarine Ursula, which distinguished itself in December by torpedoing a Gorman cruiser and U-boat, besides sighting the Bremen, and sank the German ship Hecldernhcim on March 23, has been transferred by routine to another command.