At sea an Increased number of escorts will enable us fo provide greater prosection for convoys and to these advantages will be added Ni improvements in anti-submarine tac tes. In the meantime we shall continue t@ inflict loss upon enemy submarine flotillas. To give the German naval staff their due, they change U-boat tactics when they become too costly, and now tactics demand changes in our own measures which take time to perfect. Defensive arming of merchant ships has been justified by the timely and resolute use of guns which have often enabled merchant seamen to preserve themselves and turn the tables on the Claims of enemy official communi ques about merchant tonnage sunk amour, to double our actual losses. even though some of those losses cannot be known to the Germans, "We faithfully publish the whole of our losses due to enemy action. On the other hand, Hitler never informs us of his internal diffeulties." said Mr. Alexander.
New ships delivered from British yards, plus tonnage acquired from Abroad and the volume of captured enemy ships now in our service has replaced more than two-thirds of the tonnage of British ships lost enemy action, he revealed. In addi-ips by tion we had the advantage of chartering ships of states overrun by the enemy.
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