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Show JUNE SHIPPING LOSS SHOWS DECREASE Lowest Record for Any Month Since September, 1916, Says Report. LONDON, July 24. The losses to British Brit-ish and allied shioping due lo enemy action ac-tion or marine risk for the month of June totaled 275.6l'9 gross tons, this being the lowest record fur any month since September, Sep-tember, 191 6. The British losses totaled 1G1.0K2 tons and allied and neutral losses 1 l,f.G7. The total losses for the quarter ending June SO amounted to y 4 , 5 7 1 tons, which was the lowest record for any quart or since the third nu;irter of HUti. failings continue at the high level of rerent months. The tonnage of steamships steam-ships of 500 trross tuns and over entering or clearing from United Kingdom ports, other than coastwise and ci oss-channel vessels, totals 7, 410, 36 tons. The total sailings for the quarrer ending June ::0 was considerably higher than the sailings sail-ings of the two preceding quarters. The above figures were announced by the admiralty tonight. The statement shows for June a drop in the world's sinkings of SI, 905 tons, as compared with May; 3T,7Sf tons, as compared with April, and 125. Soi tons, as compared with March of the present year. Compared with June of last year the falling off is 4:7,orc tons. The decrease in purely Rritish tonnage is f 4 . 6 J 7 tons, as compared with the May figures; 67,00.", tons, as compared with April, and 6:-;.fir,4 tons, as compared with March of the present year, and as compared with June of last year. |