VALUE OF CONVOY SYSTEM
EFFICIENCY OF NAVAL GUARDS FEW MARINE LOSSES. Loudon, Jan. 29. Sir Leo Chiozza Money states tliat tlie ocean convoy “system for ships has proved satisfactory. Fourteen million gross of tonnage have been convoyed till the 19th Jannary with a loss equivalent to only 1.44 per cent. WAR VESSELS SUNK. London, Jan. 29. The armed escort vessel Mechanician was torpedoed and subsequently stranded in the English Channel on 20th January, and became a total wreck. Thirteen lives were lost.
The torpedo boat Hazard was sunk in the Channel on 39th January as the result of a collision. Three lives were lost-
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11449, 31 January 1918, Page 5
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104VALUE OF CONVOY SYSTEM Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11449, 31 January 1918, Page 5
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