"Prodigal efforts were made to bring cargoes and to protect the ships, and these exertions have not failed, It is much easier to sink ships than to build them or to bring them safely across the ocean, We have lately been taking a stronger hand Ín this sinking process ourselves, It is a most astonishing fact that in the month of May we sank or captured or caused to be scuttled no less than 257,000 tons of enemy shipping, "although they present us with a target which is perhaps one-Month as great as that we present to them, While they slink from port to port under the protection of their air umbrella, and make short furtive voyages from port to port across the sea, we maintain our whole—worldwide traffic with never less than 2,000 ships on the seas or less than 40 in the danger zones on why day.
"Yet the losses we inflicted upon them in the month of May, "Mr, Churchill concluded," were in the vicinity of three-quarters of the losses they inflicted upon us, This has a bearing on the possibility of seaborne invasion because the destruction of enemy tonnage is proceeding.at a most rapid and satisfactory rate,""—Reuter,
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