The Archive · 1940

Naval Officers Arrive

Athens, Nov. 2. naval officers have arrived and a number of Greek "They are working at. full preparing for ce-operation with the Greeks. The Greek populace view this evidence of assistance for the first time in newspaper headlines yesterday and all papers carried appeal "to guard against the pro-Paganda. of friends of the enemy, which endeavours to sow doubt here jas elsewhere."

It is learned that the Hungarians! have been requested to look after pict re, passed by the British World Loses 4,000,000

Tons of Shipping London, Nov. 2.

During the first year of the war, 1.089 ships of all nationalities, representing 4.096.000 gross tons of ship were destroyed, according to an joritative summary yesterday in the Burnt Island Shipyard journal, Tt it were assumed that natural fobsoleseence would have caused of at least 96,000 tons, the world's losses by war alone were about 4,000,000 gross tons the journal ale loses were 396 ships ro+ 1,861,000 tons.

Axis Tosses re, sinking oF scutilings were ps representing 1,300,000 tons.

Allied and neutral losses were 363 ships totalling 1,235,000 tons. losses in the first year of averaged 20,000 tons of ship-ockly and during the second they averaged 62.000 tons weekly. United Press

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