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Show Heavy Fleet Losses The British Information Service announces that from the beginning begin-ning of the war until August 13th, the British Empire lost 561 fighting ships, including three battleships, two battle-cruisers, I five aircraft carriers, twenty-eight ! j cruisers, fourteen armed merchant mer-chant cruisers, 124 destroyers, 64 submarines, seven frigates, twenty-three corvettes and 289 miscellaneous mis-cellaneous smaller craft. The United States, despite far-flung far-flung naval warfare against Japan, Ja-pan, has lost only 173 warships, including one battleship, six carriers, car-riers, nine cruisers, and twenty-seven twenty-seven destroyers. While losses do not necessarily reveal the relatives contribution made by the two navies, the heavy losses suffered by the British fleet indicates the dangerous dan-gerous task it performed in the days when the Empire stood a-lone a-lone against Germany 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 stood between us and potential po-tential foes. The British reveal that Wij their fleet is more powerful to when war began and everybody in this country knows that the United States navy has becorot the greatest flet in the history o( the world. If the two nations are wise enough to malntiia their overwhelming naval superiority superi-ority it will be a powerful lord for future peace. |