wai London, Mar, 5.
Total Allied and neutral shipping losses for the week ending March 3 were eight vessels, representing 21231 tons. This figure was stated io be less than half of the average tonnage lost weekly since the*outbreak of the war. Five neutral ships were lost, representing 13,954 tons, It is officially stated that British mercantile tonnage sunk to date as a result of enemy attacks on shipping, totals approximately 620,000 tons, of which two-thirds have already been replaced by new construction and captures from the enemy, leaving a nei loss of less than one-third of the total.
German losses from captures and inkings for the first six months of the war are officially stated as approximately 271,000 tons; including 22 ships captured, with a total of 94,500 tons, and 25 scuttled with a tonnage of approximately 154,000—Reuter.
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