ENEMY SHIPS SUNK
MEDITERRANEAN REOPENED LONDON, June 12 The Mediterranean was reopened by British mine-sweepers last month. Ine extent of the Allied domination of that sea is shown in a message of congratulation on the Navy’s work which Mr Churchill has sent to Admiral of the Fleet Sir Andrew Cunningham. This stages that the Axis lost a third of its shipping in the Tunisian campaign, while the Allies lost just over 2 per cent of the vast convoys which carried and maintained their North African armies. Mr Churchill states that our submarines sank 47 ships, and surface forces sank 42. Added to sinkings by air, this makes a grand total of 137 ships, aggregating 433,400 tons. This is 32 per cent of the estimated shipping available to the Axis at the beginning of the Tunisian campaign. During the long struggle on the mainland the Navy and Air Force, working in the closest co-operation, sank 21 enemy destroyers or tor-pedo-boats and many small craft. They also prevented 35 per cent of the enemy supply ships and transports from reaching Tunisia.
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Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22063, 14 June 1943, Page 3
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