A. German single-seater fighter-bomber flying nearly five miles high over Dover yesterday was shot down in flames by anti-aircraft gunners. The raider was only a white speck in a clear blue sky when the gunners, after firing a few rounds, scored a direct This was one of the incidents in yesterday's raids on Britain which again saw fighters and ground defences constantly in action. In addition to isolated raiders they had to coal with several formations of from a score to 50 fighters, some of which entered the Portsmouth region. Others tried their luck in the direction of London. An official communique states the formations were quickly dispersed and repelled. Damage and casualties were small.
The British press analyzes the latest phase of the air war over BritReuter.
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Huge Losses by Warfare Revealed in London London, Nov. 2.
During the first year of the war, 1,089 ships of all nationalities, repre. senting 4,096,000 gross tons of shipping were destroyed, according to an authoritative summary yesterday in the Burnt Island Shipyard journal.
If it were assumed that natural obsolescence ' would have caused scrapping of at least 96,000 tons, the world's losses by war alone were about 4,000,000 gross tons the journal sai ritain's loses were 396 ships representing 1,561,000 tons. Axis losses by capture, sinking or scuttlines were 330 ships representing 1.300.000, tons.
Allied and neutral losses were 363 ships totalling 1,235.000 ton Britain's losses in the first year of the war averaged 30.000 tons of shiv-ping weekly and during the second year they averaged 62,000 tons weekly.
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