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Gracie Upsets A Vicar
AN aside made by Gracie Fields while she was entertain- ing troops in France is described as an unworthy jest by the viene of Eastbourne, Canon F. P. Hughes, in his parish magazine. The words were said when Gracie was singing "I never cried so much in all my life."
Canon Hughes sild: "Grace Fields is a person of extraordinary goodness and kindness as far as I know, but a number of people were distressed about that
the broadcast, part of emming from one whom people love, and always had an admiration for."
Mr. Bert Aza, Gracie's manager, | kuld: *11 Gracle felt she had offend- ed one person in a million she would be very upset about it,"
Miss Hughes, the vicar's daugh- ter, said the words he heard were, "Up the road came the father of her child-Oh! she was not mur- ried, but he was.'
TOLD FOR THE FIRST TIME
NI USHMILI
) OF THE GRAF
SPEE'S DEPREDATIONS
By RICARDO DIAZ HERRERO
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY, (UP——BY AIR MAIL).—THE STORY OF THE GERMAN POCKET BATTLESHIP ADMIRAL GRAF SPEE'S LONG PROWL OVER THE SOUTH ATLANTIC AS A SEA RAIDER WAS TOLD -BY THE 61 BRITISH MERCHANTMAN OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE NINE SHIPS SHE HAD SUNK.
Assembled at the British Consulate after their release from the Graf Spee, the Britons told a story of a gallant foe whose captain once said of his captures:
"I am proud to say that not, a single British life has been lost.”
Warship's Technique The Gruf Spee would overlake a British merchantman and wireless it
It would come not to use its radio. up and a prize crew would bourd the prey. If the ships were near Jand, the crew would be given the choice of rowing ashore in their lifeboats or boarding the Gral Spee.
Sometinies few well placed bombin would sink the British ships at once; at times one of the ships would trall the Graf Spee for a week or so, per- haps taking aboard prisoners from another vicilm.
voyage. When the Graf Spee begin] Itable to execution if captured by the to fight the British cruisers which Germans again. drove it into port, the door of the big single room in which they were kept was bolled un them.
One small icl from a British cruiser smashed through a nice wall into their room but caused no casual-
tles.
Skipper's Dry Comment "I never thought I'd get a bit of old England right in German battleship," commented Capt. Charles the Ashley, Pottinger muster of second of the Graf's victims.
An Uruguayan tug look off the pri soners. Omcers of the Graf Spee naluted them as they left and called:
"Good bye!"
As they landed, the younger ones among the prisoners, capering on the dock, laughed and shouted at the smiling people who watched them. Uruguayan marines formed. guard of honour.
Bronzed And In Good Health
The Britons were in good health. The men had known that their They were mostly unshaven and own ships were trying to send them, lean, but they were bronzed und -Al with the Germans, to the bottom of looking. Most of then had lost all the sea. The first they knew of the their possessions. One wore high sea outcome of the long fight was when, boots und a pair of shorts. alter the Gra.' put Into Montevideo, į Taken to the naval prefecture, the one of the Gral Spee seaman comprisoners were formally handed over
by the German
man nav attache and the commander of the Graf Spec. both in full dress uniform,
The British sailors said that they were treated well, fed well, housed well. One laughingly called atten- tion to his suit. He had been wear- Ing tropical weight clothes when tismented: ship was sunk. The German ship's "You've been our prisoners. Now tailor, by, the captain's order, mode] I guest we'll be yours," him a suit when the weather turned cold.
There was just 0110 thing the Britons could not tell about their
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Beltish Consular attaches took the prisoners over from the Uruguayan prefect and took them to the British Consulate to talk. They had not caten, in the exeltenient of the night, since the day before,
The Grat Spee sank the steamship Clement Oct. 2. It sank eight more. confiscating all provisions in euch instance,
The Brilons said the food had been plan but ample. They were fre- quently allowed on decks and never more than two sentits guarded the big room where all were kept, of Beers and men.
How Ashley Was Sunk
Capt. Pottinger of the Ashley sakl: "It was 8.30 am, Oct. 7 when I saw a cruiser coming up across our bows. She Bew no ensign but thought she was a Freneksantin. She came heading on for us and fully when she came alongside she hoisted the German ensigh. saw them' she was a pocket battleship and not a cruiser. Sho put up dag signals:
Don't use your radio. "They sent over a a boarding party. Its commander gave me 10 minutes to get my men off in lifeboats, "Thic Graf had previously tured the Newton Heech and had kept her nearby. We were trans- fared to the Newton Beech. Then the Germans took off our provisions and set bombs aboard and the Ashley blew up.
It took only five minutes for the explosion but it was nearly an hour before she sank. We were treated find aboard the Spee,
Played Rummy
cap-
"Mostly we prisonem played rum- my, and sat around and smoked. The Germans let us keep our money when we were captured and allowed jus to buy cigarettes from their stores." Capt. Patrick Gerald Gordon Dave of the 750-ton Arlen Shell told his story of the fight.
"When the battle started they took off our guards and bolled the door, We didn't know where we ware or wlint was happening, until we heard the Graf Spee's guns and følt_the Impact of British shells. It was a funny feeling. We wanted the Grat sunk but we couldn't help wonder- ing what would happen to us if she was,"
Dave, big and jovial, has a wife and a son who is going to be a sailor. "Do you still think your son nught to be a sailor?" I asked.
"I guess he'd better go to zên like his father," kald Dove.
The Huntsman's Fato Alfred Holt Thompson, chief of flcer of the Huntsman fourth of tho, Graf's prey, snid:
"It was 6 p.m. Oct. 10 when we sighted a warship coming bow on. We were 000 miles of Africa. We jsaw no flag but we whreleased that
a cruiser was approaching us.
"The cruiser came alongside and Įvaleza the German flag, Sho signulled;
“You must not use your radio,' *She rent a boarding party aboard and we were told that since we had already wirelessed our help wo would have to stay in our host and accompany the Graf. We tralled her for a week with a prize crew aboard in order to hide our location. Then the prize-crew-look us off and set: bombs, to sink, the Huntsman. But Arst the Grat-'took aboard-, all our provisions."
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