FAILURE AT SEA
SINKINGS BY GERMANS ONE-TENTH OF ESTIMATE LONDON, Sept. 19 By failing to achieve their estimated rate of merchant ship sinkings, the Germans have suffered a naval defeat as serious as any surface battle with capital ships. At the outset, the enemy estimated that 500,000 tons of British and Allied shipping would be destroyed every week, says the naval correspondent of the. Manchester Guardian. Actually, dtiriny a year of war, ho says, the Germans have achieved only one-tenth of their hopes, as the total loss ol' 2,771,.'333 tons works out at only 55,000 tons a week. The year's total is made up as follows:—British, 1,530,190 tons; Allied, '162,921; neutral, 769,213. Britain's losses have been counterbalanced by new construction, plus the addition of 1,500,000 tons of Belgian, Dutch, French and Norwegian ships. Additions under these two headings constitute a greater aggregate tonnage than was available at the outbreak of war.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23772, 27 September 1940, Page 8
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