ENEMY SHIPPING LOSSES
LONDON, August If) It is officially revealed in London that the total enemy tonnage lost (captured, sunk or scuttled) to August 16 was 4,007,000 tons, comprising 2,321,000 tons of German, 1,533,000 tons of Italian, 34,000 tons of Finnish and 119,000 tons useful to the enemy. Of just ofer 4,000,000 tons, 696,000 tons has been sunk since June 10. These figures include 51 ships of an estimated tonnage of 200,000 claimed to have been sunk by the Russians.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24049, 21 August 1941, Page 10
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