The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-07
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 WEET WITH DEATH
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(Continued from Page D ed bomberS at flying field and it was claimed that railroad lines were hit and that bombs fell on a chemical and a ball bearing fac tory.
 A communique said that German bomberS raided London several times, shooting down several bar rage balloons in flames during one raid.
 German long range batteries en- placed on the French coast were said to have fired on British craft attempting to approach the French coast.
 There were no British raids on Germany last night, said the high command. It was admitted that one German plane failed to return from raids against the British Isles, which were described officially as armed reconnaissance flights.
 Sniped At London
 London, January '. CUP) = German hit-and-run raiders sniped at London through cover of clouds today, dropping a few bombs in at least four sections of the metropolis.
 The German planes took advan- tage of cloud blanket to sneak over the city in daylight but there was no air raid alarm sounded in London except after one afternoon attack.
 Ten high explosive bombs were reported dropped in one section and seven in another. However, casual ties were said to be few.
 The daylight action came after German night activity over Bri- tain had been sharply limited by a s1lowstorm and high winds over the English Channel.
 Early today a single German raider dropped a bomb in a field near London and anti-aircraft guns went into action but no alarm sounded.
 Shipping Losses Less london, Jan. 7.-(UP)-British Allied and neutral shipping losses by enemy action in 1940 totalied B. 519, ,408 tons, more than for any year of the World War except 1Gl7, but the admiralty announced today there had been a sharp decrease during the last three weeks of De- cember.
 Total British, Allied and neutral losses since the start of the war amounted to 1,067 vessel, whose ton mage was 4,248,558 Of this total, the British lost 636 ships of 2,672,000 tons.
 The 1940 shipping losses were sur passed in the World War only in 1917 when the Germans sent G. 623,6 ,623 tons to the bottom. British losses in 1940 amounted to 520 ships totalling 2,257, 900 tons.
 During the week ended Dec. 30, the admiralty said, the British lost three ships tota!ing 18,208 tons by enemy action. Four Allied ships totaling 19,348 tons, were lost, making the total loss for the week 37,556 tons.
 Weekly losses have averaged 69,- 666 tons.
 Coincident with the announce ment, however, Lord Woolton, min- ister of food, said the meat supply situation in the British Isles was difficult and that little relief could be expected for a fortnight. Last week Woolton explained that ship ping, instead of carrying meat to the British Isles, was munitioning the British army in North Africa.
 During the week ended Dec. 30 the Germans claimed to have sunk 130,163 tons of shipping.
 Authoritative naval circles said it was difficult to give precise reasons for rises and falls in shipping losses. They said that new devices for deal ing with the submarine menace were being tried out at all times and that the same was true of attempts to meet the menace of German air at tacks on shipping.
 Not Always Successful
 Sometimes experiments are suc- cessful and at other times there is no apparent success" it was said.
 Naval circles pointed out that when ShiOniOO losses merp fNorfin,1.