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BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 18 (UP)—Argentine has to intern about 700 officers and men of the Admiral Graf von Spec, followed their arrival on two tugs, a barge and a launch.
It is understood that the crew will be interned at Martin Garcia Immigration Island where the officers will be accorded special treat-
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VICTIMS
Nazi Raider Sank Only 48,000 Tons
LONDON, Dec. 18 (Renter).| -At least two British ships scuttled themselves when the Graf Spee tried to capture them, it Was learned to-day when fuller details of the raider's career became available.
On October 7, the Graf Spee's first victim, the 5,000 ton steamer Clement was encounter- jed.
As the German ship opened fire on the Clement, her captain ordered the destruction the
ship' wireless. cozines and stores,
The seacocks were opened and the
crew took to their boats.
Later they were placed aboard a Greek steamer, the master of which was threatened with sinking when lie
refused to take them on board with
Jout payment.
Ships Sunk By Bombs Other ships. Including the Ashley and Huntsman, were sunk by bombs during October when the Graf Spee crept up on them unawares by flylug
the French flag.
Her "bag" for October was five ships.
November was a poor month, for
It was not until November 16 that
Omcbals quoted Captain Langsdorf as saying: "I am satisfied. I saved all my men.'
ST
Three thousand people along the
and his offers land at 2.43 pan. The first land of 250 members of the crew
waterfront saw Captain Langsdorf
landed at 3.25 p.m.
Sightseers View Burning Warship studying the Foreign circles ore legal naprets of the sinking in its relation to the Hague Convention, to determine whether or not the crew will be classified DS shipwrecked sallors or combatants.
Reports from Montevideo suy that at 4 p.m., the Graf von Spee was still burning after 20 hours. It is sur rounded by excuraton bont loaded with sightseers.
LONDON, Dec. 18 (Reu- ter) The disclosure that the leading division of the Canadian Army, strongly escorted across the ocean - and guarded by our main battle fleet, has disembarked safely and smoothly in one of our harbours for a period of Intensive training before joining their comrades on the Western Front, was made
Mr. by
Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, in a broadcast to-night.
ITALIAN
POLICY PRAISED
British Press And Ciano's Speech
Nazi Protest To Uruguay, MONTEVIDEO, Dec. 18 (Router).|
protest has been sent to the Uruguayan Government by the Nazi Government alleging that the Uru- guayan Government failed to give (Reuter).-The British the Grat Spee the necessary time to
make her seaworthy, thus committing
gross breach of international law and usage."
The Nazi note takes the same line the letter sent by Capt. Langsdorf video before he look his ship out and
to the German Minister at Monte-
scuttled her in obedience to Hitler's orders.
In this letter, Capt. Langsdorf sald that although the fighting powers of the ship were not diminished she was no! seaworthy as her kitchens and
bakeries were damaged,
He could not put to sea with a crew of 1,000 men when she was In that condition.
The Captain's note alleges that the she came eross another merchant- Uruguayan Government, by refusing man, the 900-ton tanker, Afrien Shell, to extend the Graf Spes's time limit, which was sunk in Portuguese terti-failed to live up to the Hague Con torial waters.
The Graf Spee's captain told the master of the tanker that for the past two weeks he had been straddling Uie Australia-Cupe chipping route, without sighting any British
but
skipa.
Daric Star Scuttled
vention.
Captain's Admission
The Captain also admits having fired at a British warship while la Uruguayan territorial waters.
The Uruguayaur authorities are now investigating the way in which the Grof Spee was sunk.
The Graf Spee, followed by her
They questioned the Chief Engineer supply ship, on which most of the and three members of the crew who British crews were being kept, con- were among the last to leave the slip, All members of the Grat Spec's Įtinued to cruise around but it was!
not until December that she sighted} crew aboard the Tacoma will be in- another ship.
This was the 10,000 ton
Dorla
terned.
There is considerable resentment Star which sent out an 8. D. 8. and at the Graf Spee's choice of final then opened her seacocks,
(anchorage right in the middle of the The boarding party arrived to find main fairway in only 25 feet of the ship sinking under them, where-water, where she may become a upon the Gruf Spee shelled and danger to navigation. torpedoed her.
LONDON, Dec. 18
December 19. 1939.
Churchill Compares Ignomy with Rawalpindi ADMIRAL GRAF SPEE FUNKED SEA BATTLE
LONDON, Dec. 18 - (Reuter). -Referring to the Graf Spee battle in the course of a broad-| cast speech to-night, Mr. Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Ad- mirally, said that despite her far! heavier armament and com- manding range, the Graf Spee! was driven to take refuge in a neutral harbour, and then had the alternative of submitting to internment or going down in battle like the Rawalpindi, which would have been honourable for her.
She found #1 third alternative, emerging not to fight but to sink her- self in the fairway of a neutral State from which she had received shelter inter- and succour un prescribed by national law.
She knew that the British heavy ships, Renown and Ark Royal, were s a thousand miles away oiling at Rlo.
All that awalted her outside the harbour were two six-inch gun cruisers, Ajnx and Achilles, and the eight-Inch gun Cumberland, which had arrived to replace the damaged Exeter.
Our Losses Not Slight Our losses had not been slight, The Ajax had two out of four tur-
Press is extremely interest-rets knocked out, while the Exeter ed in Italian policy follow-bore up against 40 to 50 hits, many ing Saturday's speech by she could fire back. Count Ciano, the Italian smashed and she sustained nearly 100 Foreign Minister.
The "Manchester Guardian" calls the speech one of the most important of the war,
When the Soviet-Nazi Pact was signed, says the paper, the Italian Foreign Minister was as surprised as the rest of Europe.
Typical Of Hitler
Hitler göve Italy less notice thon
is customary and expected between Pariners.
shells twice the weight of those
Three of her 8-inch gun
casualties, by far a greater part kill- cd,
Nevertheless the Exuter remained
outside Montevideo, ready, though crippled, lo participate in a fresh al- tack, and only departed to care for her casualties when relieved by the Cumberland,
Our Submarines' Best Weak
In the North Sea, British sub- marines have had the best week I can remember either in this war or the last sald Mr. Churchill, "British submarines suffer a serious
reference to the fact that Italy and
The paper stresses Count Ciano's disability in that they are not allow
ed to sink merchantships without pro- Germany had agreed that they mustviding for the safety of the crew, do their not attack neutral vessels and hum- nvold war for some years in own interests.
ble fishing boats, and the fact that German warships hardly ever venture out of port."
The exploits of the submarine Salmon were praiseworthy in the highest degree. She abstained from torpedoing the Bremen when she was at her mercy.
This says the "Manchester Guar dan. would be disturbing reading for Germans if the German people were over allowed to read it.
The paper also points out that in
anything for march this year Germany had agreed five years, during which time could organise her military resources.
some four or
she
The Timelini Landed
praises Signor Mus- solini's efforts to preserve peace.
Hitler replied with a refusa! 18 days before the invasion of Poland.
So much for the often reiterated Nazi Slogan about the "patience of Entire Crow Return
the Fuehrer."
also The "Manchester Guardian" BUENOS AIRES, Dez. 18 (Reuter) looks forward into the future The Tairoa, which tried to get away-The Commander of the Graf Spee lost war, it points out, was followed -and-did-not-stop-until--the--life- | and_the_whole crew, except those.
[by a great epidemic. boats, steering wheel and officers' wounded in battle, have arrived quarters had been shot away. She, too, was sunk by bombs from the Graf Spee's acroplanes.
A few days later, she saw the
Comparison With Emden The Graf Spee then returned to her supply ship and transferred to her all the crews board, with the exception of the officers,
Finally on December 7, she sank by bumbu the Treonshall, her last; victim.
In two and a half months, she ac- counted for nine ships totalling 49,- 000 tons, which is less than half the damage done by the Emden, which was only one-third the Graf Spee's size, in the Inst war.
American's Comment
aboard trawlers.
The
What strength will the populations of Poland and Cxecho-Slovakis have to resist the disease?
"And what
of the
impoverished
crew will be interned, Hitler Forgot His History LONDON, Dec. 18 (Reuter)-Ac-population of the Reich!" the paper cording to a special commentary asks, issued to-day, the scuttling of the Graf Spee constitutes an ignominious departure from the honourable tradition of all navies, exemplied by the following:
Sir
1.---Tho famous fight of Richard Grenville in the Revenge, which fought 53 ships single- handed in 1591;
2.---Admiral Craddock, who faced almost certain destruction at the hands of a vastly superior fleet at Coronel In 1914:
Slap In The Eye For Goebbels
India Laughs At Crude Propaganda
LONDON, Dec. 18 (Router)—A
"Bombay Chronicle" snyst
3.-The Spanish Republican special commentary states that the
destroyer, "Lol Diaz," which after undergoing repairs at Gibraltar in the Civil War, came out and faced powerful force of the Nationalist NAVY.
NEW YORK, Dec. 18 (Reuter), Commenting on the sinking of the
The Berlin broadcasts are dolly Admiral Graf Spec, Major Fielding
trying to present the rulers of Ger- Elliott, the noted American military
any as the friends of India. It is in keeping with their tradition of perfidy commentator, says that a forlorn hope hes time and
and hypocrisy that the Nazis, who again produced
The scuttling indicates not only af magnificent results. "but forlorn lack of will to fight, but the absence only a few weeks ago were slander- kopes
Gandhi and Pandit ing Mahaima are not in German of confidence of final victory when Nehru 08 'agents of World Jewry, tradition,"
the vessel, if interned, would have are new praising them for their stand The Graf Spec will raid no more been restored, and Argentine beef and wheat will, continue Beltatr
to
the
travel to ports
12.onour Of Naxi Navy"
TO
en the war fasue.
"They are sadly mistaken,
Tacoma's Fate Unknown
course, SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" in
LONDON, Dec. 18 (Reuter)-Uption or flattery that they can shake if they Imagine that either by vilifea- to now there is no confirmation that Nationalist India's firm Anti-Nazi the Tacoma is to be interned.
THE "TELEGRAPH" BERLIN, Dec. 18 (Reuter).—At- cording to the German news agency, the opinion in Berlin political circles in that the "honour of German sea- manship, stands too high to make it necessary to defend it against the in- sults of the British Press,"
The Press, commenting upon the Graf Spee's career, states tint her task was, to attack ocean trade routes and to avoid hostile warships,""
Ajax Casualties LONDON, Dec, 18 (British Wire- less)--An Admirally announcement regarding the casualties sustained in Inst Wednesday's action by H.M.S. Ajax confirms that seven were klifed as previously stated.
that
The announcement gives the names of two other members of the crow seriously injured, and adds cleven other men received minor in- juries only, and all are progressing satisfactorily.
New Contraband Control Base
ADEN, Dec. 10 (Reuter)-A now been established here to supplement British Contraband Control base has those in the Mediterranean.
position."
BICKFORD AND CREW
GET GREAT WELCOME
LONDON, Dec. 18 (Br. Wireless) ----ILM.S. Salmon, the 670-ton British submarino which sank the Nazi cruiser Leipzig, torpedoed another cruiser of the Bincher class, sank an ocean-going U-Boat and permitted the Bremen to escape destruction, returned to her home port to-day.
Lieut. Cmdr. Bickford and his crew of 40 men had an enthusiastic welcome when their small crafi entered port.
As the Balmon entered the harbour, sirens shrieked on overy vessel present among them two destroyers of the Polish Navy which are at present co-operating with the British Navy.
The patrol from which H.M.B. Salmon returned is described In naval circles as the most oventful which has fallen to any submarine in this or the last war.
WAS IN HONGKONG
The man who Bank the Nazi cruiser Leipzig was Lieut. Commander E. O. Bickford, who was in Hongkong until late in 1937 and is well known in sporting circles here..
Lieut. Commander Blckford served in Hongkong as First Lieutenant aboard ILMS, Odin.
He was transferred from Hongkong in 1937 to take up the Submarine Commanding Officers' course at Fort Blockhouse (II.M.S. just over a year ago, and was then placed in command of H.M.S Dolphin, Portsmouth).” He received his promotion in August, 1938
Salmon on Mediterranean Station. He was still in H.M.S. Salmon The base is also to be used for when he performed his remarkable fest of torpedoing two German examination of cargoes of German cruisers this week, a sas | origin on outward bound ships.--
When she observed Nazi war vessels
WINSTON CHURCHILL
hit two cruisers which may have been
were able to Himp, but
forced to abandon whatever enterprise they Bad had.
Ursula Sinks Cruiser
To-day, the Ursul reported sinking a cruiser although surrounded by German destroyers.
A considerable tots) of the German cruiser strength was put out of action in a single week.
The Nazi Navy and Air Force were venting their wrath by redoubling their efforts to sink fishing smacks and drowning fishermen.
Their air force yesterday and to- day was trying to bomb" unarmed merchantmen, including an Italian ship.
Machine-Gunned Survivors
Home
спаса, they even machine-gunned sallors in boats,
In
but
their fury exceeded their Accuracy.
the vast movement of British traffic- was proceeding uninterrupted,
Canadians Landed
Mr. Churchill then referred to the landing of the Canadians and con- tinued that the present satisfactory In the naval war was due to position the care and conduct of operations by Admiral Sir Dudley Pound and the Naval Staff at the Admirally, of which Rear Admiral Phillipa la De- puty Commander-in-Chief of the
The
Chlet
main fleet, from the beginning of the war, maintained that a strong watch was required in the Atlantic and the North Sco in keeping ships almost continuously at sea under the con- tinued menace of U-boat, aircraft and mincs.
The main fleet had been more days nt sen since the war began than it had ever been required in any equal period of modern naval war, but no leadership could be successful unless supported by the whole body of officers and men of the Navy,
Faithful & Trusty
Sorvants
Upon these faithful and trusty scr- vants the burden fell directly.
In particular, the flotillas of des- troyers and submarines watching in the throat of the Elbe against sub- marine craft and the minesweepers were undergoing toll and strain which only those who knew the details can understand.
Brilliant And Resoluto "We have to go a long way back to find more brillant and resolute fighting than by the Exeter, Ajax and Achilles, but if the call had come elsewhere still and courage of an equal quality would have been forth- coming.
"Rough times lie ahead, but every- thing that has happened hitherto would give the nation confidence that in the end the difficulties will be sur-- mounted, the problems solved and duty done," concluded Mr. Churchill,
WESTERN FRONT Bitter Winter Weather
Only six small boats were sunk Military Activity Dies
and the bulk were not even bit,
These outragen were the tactles of a guilty regime, which felt the strang arms of scapower Inid upon its shoulder.
Down
PARIS, Dec. 18 (Reuter),- Bitter winter weather prevails. Although German mines of all on the Western Front with low on one of their rare excursions, she kinds were being scattered profusely, temperature, snow and strong
winds.
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Milliary activity has been less than on the previous day except in a fairly large area between Saar and Vosges, where numerous patrols have been constantly patrolling.
The Germans made another rafd in this area, but were driven off by French Are, and the raids, as a result,. were completely negative.
Tommies Versus Naxis. PARIS, Dec. 18 (Reuter)-A com- munique issued to-day states that to- wards mid-day a sharp engagement occurred in the Vosges area between one of our reconnoltring parties, and German units.
We took some prisoners, including. officers,
British Envoy In Nazi Hands
German Abuse Of Diplomatic Immunity 7
LONDON, Dec. 18 (British Wireless)-Regarding the re- port that Mr. Gordon Vereker, the British Minister-Designate to La Paz, has been captured by the Germans from a neutral ship in the Bustic, nolming is yet known in official quarters in London of the circum- [sturices.
It cannot be confirmed that Mr. Vereker is in Germany, though it is a fact that he was in a neutral ship. Jon the way from Tallina to Stock-
holm when intercepted by a German. warship.
If Mr. Vercker has been detained. despite diplomatic privilege, the: United States Government, which has. taken charge of British interests in. Germany, will be asked to take up the matter and procure his release.
Mr. Vereker is coming home"Trem. Moscow to prepare to take up his appointment in Bolivia,
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