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Vice Admiral William S. Sims, Commander, United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters, to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations

Chronological Copy.                               File No.

Cablegram Sent 4 July 1918  RES

To Opnav Washington                               Serial No. 635

Prep. by  S-31                     SX  D.R.

48 ARD             

SECRET

635 British official return shipping losses for week ending June 29, 1918 reports as sunk 68,307 gross tonnage, allied and neutral ships; as damaged 10,040 gross tonnage British ships. 23104, 635

SIMS

Source Note: Cy, DNA, RG 45, Entry 517B.

Footnote 1: This presumably means that this report was prepared by someone in the Convoys and Miscellaneous section of Sims’ staff.

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