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Graf Von Spee Given Hostile Reception
ANTI-NAZI SCENES IN MONTEVIDEO
MONTEVIDEO, TO-DAY.
REMARKABLE SCENES WERE WITNESSED IN THE URUGUAYAN CAPI- TAL YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AS A SEQUEL TO THE ARRIVAL OF THE BATTERED NAZI WARSHIP, GRAF VON SPEE.
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Copenhagen, To-day.
Over 20,000 persons staged a violent anti-Nazi de- monstration because of reports that she was be- ing permitted succour for thirty days, and the police were compelled on several occasions to charge the crowds.
Workmen in the local dockyard have threatened to go on strike if the Graf von Spee is put into dock for repair.
Meantime, the British au-
WARSHIPS ON WATCH
Communist organisations thorities have requested the Five British warships, including it is reported unofficially, H.M.S. Barham, here are distributing anti-Uruguayan Government to are now standing 30 miles off shore. Finnish pamphlets.
take measures to intern the Another report suggests that the Graf von Spee for the dura-Graf von Spec had sunk two British in rapid succession tion of the war, or, alterna-before she was engaged by the British tively, to compel her to leave. light cruiser squadron.-Reuter.
The tenor of the pamphlets is such as to justify enforcement of the law prohibiting insults against foreign na-
tions.
Copenhagen University students have expelled from. the campus three fellow students found dis- tributing this propaganda.
The propagandists were subsequent- ly arrested when they continued their activities in the streets of the Danish capital. Havas.
STUPID NAZI LIE DISPROVED
MONTEVIDEO, TO-DAY,
THE MUSTARD GAS SHELL AL-
Authoritative sources state that in her present condition, the Graf von Spee could not possibly put to sea.
It is, novertheless, contended that when a bolligerent warship is hotly pursued Into a neutral harbour, she cannot clalm refuge for more than 24 hours. The Bri. tish authorities, on instructions from London, håve made strong representations, to this effect, and request Internmont,
It is intimated, however, that no ob- jection would be taken for a brief ex- tension of the period of grace in order that the von Spec's dead may be given a naval funeral,
The commander of the "Achilles" LEGATIONS PUT OUT BY THE has expressed a wish to send a con- NAZI LEGATION HAVE BEEN COM-tingent ashore to attend the funeral. PLETELY EXPLODED BY AN EX- AMINATION OF THE casualTIES
BY
URUGUAYAN
OFFICERS.
MEDICAL
The Medical Officer in charge of the port says that all the injured were wounded by shell splinters. Not one was suffering from eye injuries associated with mustard gas. Reuter.
the
EPIC NAVAL ACTION
London, To-day.
merchant ships
SHARP CLASHES ON WESTERN FRONT
DUSSELDORF SLIPS OUT TO SEA
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Santiago de Chile, To-day. The German freighter Dus- seldorf yesterday slipped out of Valparaiso for an unknown des- tination.
The ship had been in Valpar. also harbour for several weeks. -Havas.
NAZI PACT WITH SOVIET RATIFIED
that -For- Am-
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Berlin, To-day. Paris, To-day,
officially announced It is Sharp engagements between re-Joachim von Ribbentrop, the connaissance units are reported from eign Minister, and the Soviet
Wilhelmstrasse the Vosges region, and there is con-bassador met at the siderable activity along the whole yesterday and exchange ratifications front from the Moselle to the Rhine. of the treaty of friendship and fron- -Reuter.
tiers of September 28.-Havas.
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No official account of the naval engagement which has
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London, To-day.
Lord Chatfeld, Minister for Cor Ordination of Defence, eulogising the men of the Exeter, Ajax, and Achilles in a House of Lords statement, said that British, warcraft had been hunt- ing for the Nazi pocket-battleship for weeks.
Any ship which got into touch with her was not.going to lose her even if it meant a battle against great odds. Reuter.
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the Graf von Spee is yet available.
It is evident, from the messages rocdived at the Admiralty, however, that the British ships mado valuable smoke-screens, laying thom use of with such skill that the slower Gor- man ship was outmanoeuvred.
The action is described in naval circles as one of the most daring and brilliant in the history of the Royal Navy-Reuter.
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