... NAZI SHIPPING CLAIMS German radio, quoting expert circles,” claimed today that the Allied nations had lost 8,000 ships, totalling 28 million tons, in the war to date.—Associated Press. ...

... She has carried 15,000 civilian passengers, including 3,000 evacuee children, 2,000 prisoners of war, 2,500 survivors from lost ships and 34,000 troops of Allied Nations. She has also proved her worth as a cargo carrier, having had on board 119,000 tons ...

... strong defence. Other U-boats in the North and ■South Atlantic sank 14 ships totalling 72.000 tons, mostly out of convoys. The enemy transport fleet has therefore again lost 16 ships, totalling 89.000 tons. —Reuter. Berlin today complaimed that the aim ...

... Precisely those ships were required which were in such great demand for the battle of the Atlantic. The price we paid for the passage of the Russian convoys is not only to be measured by the ships lost on each convoy operation, but by the ships ...

... of merchant shipping and the counter-attack on the U-boat should be given the highest priority. It is reduction of the losses and not their replacement which is vital. Replacement by war-time types will not restore the quality ships lost from the pre-war ...

... conditions. Rome Claim Rome claimed today: “The American Pacific Fleet lost 25 ships, including nine warships, during operations off Rendova Island in the Solomons. The enemy also lost 130 ’planes against 52 Japanese ’planes.” Tokio*s Latest Tokio radio ...

... submarines 4, minesweepers 1, and trawlers 6. With today’s additions the total number of ships lost by the Royal Navy since the war began is 435, as follows: Capital ships, 5; aircraft-carriers, 7; cruisers, 25; armed merchant cruisers, 14; destroyers, 98; ...

... aware no United Kingdom or Allied ship had been lost when carrying a full cargo of goods either to or from Eire on an ocean voyage. could not say whether goods ultimately destined for Eire were carried any ships lost on their voyages to this country. ...

... Reuter correspondent, cables this account of the landing operation at Gela, told by an officer of one of the ships screening the landing craft. The ships in the invasion fleet joined up on the night before the invasion. We slipped slowly inshore and about eleven ...

... Sholto Douglas, ■General R. E. TO KEEP OFF THE SHARKS Special Paint India’s waters may lose their terrors for survivors of lost ships and aircraft as the result of an Australian discovery that sharks are repelled by certain colours and attracted by others ...

... twice as many destroyed on the ground,” the announcer said. During the same period 187 Allied 'planes nave been lost. Forty-five supply ships have been sunk by our air and naval forces during the last five weeks in the Mediterranean.” Ten more of Hitler’s ...

... warfare that they did not know how to use the mortars or even the rifles with which they were equipped. Already Arnim has lost 25 small ships attempting to evacuate some of his men. They were sunk in the great Allied air assault on Thursdaythe biggest day of ...