ALLIED SHIPPING
HUGE TONNAGE AVAILABLE WASHINGTON, (Rec. 0.55 a.m.) Jan. 10. “The United Nations will have 40,000,000 tons of shipping by April, which German military opinion c .insiders is the most favourable month for the invasion of Europe,” says Commander Eric Oesberg, the former head of the Swedish naval college, in an article in the Stockholm paper Tidningen. “Allowing five tons of shipping for every soldier carried, it will be possible to throw a great force against the Continent. This will be the greatest Allied strategic success of the war. Britain from the outbreak to the end of November, 1943, built 3,940,000 tons, America 18,000,000 tons, Canada 1,700,000 tons, and Australia 700,000 tons.”
Commander Oesberg rejects as exaggerated the German claim to have sunk a total of 35,000,000 tons.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25430, 11 January 1944, Page 3
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