... ALLIES LOST 17 SHIPS IN DAWN ...

... No Allied Ships Lost A naval officer, who was engaged in the minesweep.ng operations, stated in London yesterday that from the time of the Allied landings in North Africa until he loft not one Allied merchant ship had been sunk by enemy mines. went out ...

... EIRE SHIPS LOST Mr. de Valera stated in the Dail yesterday that in the last eighteen mpnths Eire had lost three vessels. The City of Bremen had been sunk by German aircraft and a strong protest made. Tavo other vessels had since been presumed lost, but ...

... ONLY 3 PER CENT. OF SHIPS LOST THE first detailed picture of the effect of closing the air gap in mid-Atlantic was given last night in joint Admiralty and Air Ministry communique, which told of a 120-hour battle last month against one of the fiercest ...

... WAGES IN FULL NEW PLAN FOR SEAMEN OF LOST SHIPS In future master, officer, or seaman, whose ship is lost or wrecked, whether by enemy action or otherwise, will continue to receive full wages until he returns home or is offered alternative employment abroad ...

... “SHARK-PROOF” PAINT India’s waters may Ipse their terrors for survivors of lost ships and aircraft, as the result of Australian discovery that sharks are repelled by certain colours, and attracted by others. The possibilities of a new shark-proof paint ...

... the Owen Stanley Mountains, in New Guinea, but in spite of this the ship was ready for towing to Australia for refitting within nine weeks Only the funnel and top struc:ure of the ship at first showed above the water and there were japing holes in her ...

... them at the late nearly one day. with others being damaged August was again a record month, with more U-boats sunk than lost ships. TOO LATE MR. CHURCHILL ...

... has had board: 15.000 civilian passengers, including 3,000 evacuee children; 2.000 prisoners of war; 2,500 survivors from lost ships; and 34.000 troops of Allied nations. In addition she has carried: 119.000 tons of general cargo to the United Kingdom; ...

... NAZI SHIPPING CLAIMS German radio, quoting expert circles,” claimed today that the Allied nations had lost 8,000 ships, totalling 28 million tons, in the war to date.—Associated Press. ...

... Britain and the United States, the shipping tonnage lost up to midnight, August 17, was slightly less than 85,000. . The Italian and German authorities,” he said, were either csnpletely ignorant of the cost to us in shipping or so appalled by the truth that ...

... Precisely those ships were required which were in such great demand for the Battle of tne Atlantic. The price we paid for the passage of the Russian convoys is not only to be measured by the ships lost on each convoy operation, but by the ships ...