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All But Blown Out of Water'
Air Mail Story Of Graf Spee Sequel
From JOHN RAWLE
Montevideo. RUSSELL LEWIS, a Mon- Levideo photographer, WAR allowed on board the Graf Spee before she was scuttled. When he returned he told me, "It beats me how the ship held together. She looks as if she's been hit by the ven geance of God.
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"Her turret is smashed into a mass of twisted steel, and there are two huge shell holes' right Secretary and Manager. through the heart of the ship
from one side to the other.
C. M. MANNERS,
Hongkong, 25th January, 1940.
ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE,
STANLEY
re-open on
"The Liritlu gunnery must have been terrific. Her thick armoured plates are buckled and twisted until they looft like a jigsaw puzzle.
"As I walked along the deck I had to step among a musu of, wreckage
The Middle School and Preparn- | Which was once un aeroplane büt
will
which a Eritish shell had made into ory School
junic, Tuesday, February 13, at 8.15 a.m.The sullors I saw looked in ter- New Students should attend the ribic shape. Most are bandaged. same day at 9 nm.
Control Tower Hit
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"The offlecra' mess Just doesn't tell you there's a huge hole in the exist any more and-oh, I forgot to bridge and the thing looks as if were hanging on a thread...
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"I guess the Graf Spee's daya_org aver for good. The British ald everything but blow her out of the water." One
́of the holes" in the warship's side is 5ft. from the water-line, and nn internal explosion appears to have taken place.
There are holes, on each side of the
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Manikin and King Six cigars, is giving 100,000 Manikins to the Navy Comforts Committee for distribution umong sailors of all tanks serving on mine-sweepers. trawlers, drifters, small destroyers and other craft.
KING'S
through without exploding.
that a shell probably passed
The
Graf Spee is unlikely to be able to carry out extensive repairs here. There are only three docks, of which are British-owned,
two
while a Fr
Frenchman bas.part-control of the third.
Mounted police had to break up o violent anti-German demonstration here during the day. Ten thousand people on the waterfront near the Grat Spee surged forward shouting with Hitler" when German officers came ashore to confer with Urugunyan authorities.
the
It looked as if the Nazis would be NEXT CHANGEbbed, but police charged the
crowd and drove them from dockside. Earlier the Uruguayans cheered as captured. British sailors were escorted ashore from the Graf
THRILLI
TO THE STORY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN THAT HAS NEVER
BEEN TOLD BEFORE!
· Twentieth Canttuty-Foil'presen DARRYL, P. ZANUCK'S production ai
YOUNG Mr. LINCOLN
HDHRY
FONDA: BRADY
MARJORIE HAZE
WEAVER WHELAN
Directed by JOHN FORD AS
· Aavichate PridvİN KİNETH MAC GOWAN. Orignal Belion Thès by LAMAR TADINI !
A COSMOPOLITAN PRODUCTION:
Spec.
One of the British scamen (says the B.U.P.) said: "We were well- treated by the Germans, They seemed more willing to seize iner- chantmen than to rlak fighting war- ships."
Steamor's Rescue
AN account of how the French steamer Formose, whose encounter with the Grat Spee began the sen battle, was rescued from the Nazi warship by the British cruiser Ajax, was given by one of the passengers,, Senor Alberto Tarrangona.
prepare to abandon ship," he said. "We put on lite Jackets and lined up on the decks.
The captain ordered us to
"Some of us who were standing aft saw the German warship follow- Ing at a considerable distance.
Shortly after we heard gunfire
and we KOW 1
British cruiser
manoeuvring to attempt to attract the raider away, from the Formose.
"We went on at full steam on a |zigzon course,
"We knew nothing inore until we saw tie Grat Spee in the harbour of Montevideo."
an
MAN
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AND THIS IS HOW AN ARTIST HAS ILLUSTRATED THE FAMOUS BATTLE FOR "TELEGRAPH” READERS
“A vòry gallant action has bean fought by throo comparatively small British ships against a much hoavily armod adversary, The Prime Minister used these words in the House of Commons about the battle of the cruisers Exofer, Achilles, and Ajak against the German battleship, Admiral-Graf Spec.
In the artist's impression above, the Graf, Speo is soon with threo of her six 11-inch guns in action under a hail of sholls- from the British oight-Inch and six-inch batterice,
MGS IN
Nazi Flyers' Umbrella
For Premier
NAZI airmen 'dropped an umbrella over the British lines as a gift to Mr. Cham- berlain during his visit to the Front, says the German Official News 'Agency.
URBAN COUNCIL Verandah Obstructions. On Fortnightly Agenda Correspondence relative to the obstruction of verandahs in to be Infd. on the table at the fortnightly, meet- ing of the Urban Council to-morrow. Other business on the agenda'in- cludes applications for
cating house Ileence for No. 85 Parkes Street; Yaunial; for an eating holise licence for No. 51, Haiphong Hoad, floor, Tsimshatsul; for a food
licence
for No. 30, Queen's Street, third floor; for a bird shap licence for the premises on Lot No. Wathanford, ground floor the Orst shop in the left de of Argyle Street) for an offen- sive trade licence for No. 37, Sa Po?* Road, ground floor, Kowloon City.
It was an English one,
and bore this
Thus onded, the Graf Spoe, instrument of Hitler's piracy:
Battlefield
Pacifist
Pleads for Conchie
CONVERTED to pacifism on the battlefield twenty-one years ngo, Mr. Harry Ware, of Leven-road, Poplar, E., successfully pleaded for his son to be excused combatant service at n London, Conscientious Objectors' Tribunal.
It was just after he had taken
letter
"When my son had to appear be- twenty German prisoners during the fore the tribunal I wrote big push of 1918 that Mr. Ware came appealing for his exemption. face to face with German officør, who threatened him with revolver.
***CITY | VIGILANTES”, Exergency Organisation Suspends Work
The Chinese volunteer police, Hongkong's wartime » organisation, which has been doing excellent work in all parts of the Colony since its Inauguration Inst September, aus handed netivitiosas from
Chinese
The organisation 3,000 members. They covered 16 dis tricts on the island and the mainland and the considerable decrease In the number of handbag snatchings, pick- ing of pockets and minor burglaries
Now Year's day wigs las
C
"There were only half a dozen of attelbuled in no small degree, to the vigilance of these men. It was
"German airmen regret.in. perfect. English, the officery company left alive when we purclyn Chinese, organisation. A
that Chamberlain is forced to go without an unbrella In such bad weather and are sending him useful, proter- tion
aid to me, why had thrown down and I feel I
"Why should we kill each made the push in September 1018,
to large number of the mon kud re WOO prescrvel atllert and
| celved: first-did training my rifle he handed me ever as a Buread the ideals of pacifism."
Sir Robert Kotowall is expected German prisoner.
The Bon
son, Herry James Ware. to give a broadens tall on the sub "From that moment I war con- sheet metal worker, was excused fret this week. It is understisod that -to-absorb the verted to pacifier, and made up f combatant service, but he is to ap- there is a scheme P. orgutilad=
Vigilantes in the A. tion.
my mind any children: I had would þenke na hè, wants complete exemp be taught to become paclists,”
lion from military duties-