London, Aug. 10.
Loss by sinking or damage vf "almost one million tons of British shipping in the last three weeks" is claimed by the official German news agency.
The exact figures of British losses in the first week of August are not yet available, but Admiralty figures for sinkings in the last two weeks of July amounted to 103,000 tons. If the German claim were true, it would be necessary to sink nearly 900,000 tons of British shipping in a single week. It emphasize the absurdity The claim."—Reuter.
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