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Show HEAVY FLEET LOSS FOR BRITISH SINCE WAR BEGAN The British Information Service ning of the war until Aug. 13, the British Empire lost 561 fighting announces that from the begin-ships, begin-ships, including three battleships, two battle-cruisers, five aircraft carriers, twenty-eight cruisers, 14 armed merchant cruisers, 124 destroyers, de-stroyers, 64 submarines, seven frigates fri-gates 23 corvettes and 289 miscellaneous miscel-laneous small craft. The United States, despite far-flung far-flung naval warfare against Japan, Jap-an, has lost only 173 warships, including in-cluding one battleship, six carriers, car-riers, nine cruisers and 27 destroyers. destroy-ers. While losses do not necessarily reveal the relative contribution made by the two navies, the heavy losses suffered by the British fleet indicates the dangerous task it performed in the days when the Empire stood alone against Germany Ger-many and Italy. The United States, at that time, was busily preparing for possible warfare and our stupendous success suc-cess has been due, in part, to the time enjoyed while the British Navy Na-vy stood between us and potential foes. The British reveal that today their fleet is more powerful than when war began and everybody in this country knows that the United Unit-ed States navy has become the greatest fleet in the history of the world. If the two nations are wise enough to maintairf their overwhelming over-whelming naval superiority it will be a powerful force for future peace. |