Torpedoes and bombs alike have been used by us frequently in the last few months in the course of our attacks on the German-controlled shipping that is endeavouring to keep the more distant sections of the German forces supplied with fuel, ammunition, and stores. This German attempt at blockade running is on a vastly greater scale than anything that occurred in the last war, and the consequence is that the amount of tonnage working for the enemy which we have sunk is far greater ban was the case between 1914 and 1918.
You may have noticed a statement recently that in the course of three months air attack alone against this shipping had destroyed an average of one, ship a day. The Germans are certainly not running large conveys. We often read of an attack on one merchant ship protected by two or even three escorts, so that the destruction of one a day must represent a fairly high proportion of the shipping actually at sea, We on the other hand have a daily movement in all the oceans of something like 2,000 ships, and the Prime Minister indicated not long ago that between three and four hundred of them are within the danger zone every day.
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