SHIPPING LOSSES
- ACTIVITIES OF U-BOATS. FACILITATED BY USE OF FRENCH BASES. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 2. The British, Allied and neutral shipping losses for the week ended September 22, which were officially stated to be 159,288 tons, were nearly 50,000 tons more than in the previous heaviest week (ended August 25). The temporary upward trend in losses is considered to be not unexpected, since the German occupation of the French ports in the Bay of Biscay was bound to result in increased activity by enemy submarines in the Atlantic. Based on Brest, L’Orient and Bordeaux they are many hundreds of miles nearer their Atlantic hunting grounds than at j Keil and Wilhelmshaven. I
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 October 1940, Page 5
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