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Show BRITISH LOSSES : REACH 120 SHIPS By Associated Press Britain's known sea losses rose to IX craft today when the Norwegian Nor-wegian freighter Sekstant reported seeing a U-boat sink an unidentified unidenti-fied English freighter off the west coast of Norway. The new sinking came as un- confirmed reports said the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer had engaged and sunk the smaller British cruiser Achilles off the coast of Uruguay, South America. Disaster struck the soviet merchant mer-chant marine when the steamer Indigirka ran aground In a blizzard and sank off northern Japan with a known death toll of 87 and 700 more reported missing. The Sekstant said that the British Brit-ish steamer sank raptdly and that three of her crew were saved by near-by vessels. Her loss sent the know toll of II nations to 223 ships with a tonnage ton-nage of at least MtunU the war begaa at treat 342T persons have been killed er dnwwawd and snany more are listed ae "msas-lns." Other developments: The t7B-toa Swedish freighter Algol struck a mine between Den- mark and Sweden. Warships rushed to her assistance. A sailor, believed to be the sole survivor of a crew of 26 of a Danish Dan-ish ship sunk by a submarine, was rescued after drifting on a raft for four days. He was found clinging to the body of a dead officer and lost consciousness before he could name his ship. |