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Uruguayans Cheer Themselves Hoarse In Welcome To The Ajax BRITISH WARSHIP'S TRIUMPHANT
INTO MONTEVIDEO
ENTRY
From Daily Mail Special Correspondent
MONTEVIDEO, Jan. 4.
HE British cruiser Ajax
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proudly into Montevideo Harbour to-day to receive a welcome which could not have been greater if she had been; entering her home port.
The tens of thousands of Uqoganyans who saw her light the Admiral Graf Speć once again crowded the waterfront. This time they cheered | themselves hourse and hurled confetti and streamers as the embarrassed British officers und men stepped ashore.
Across the River Plate at Buenos Aires, ILM.S. Achilles was given a similar reception by an Argentine crowd.
Many among the welcoming thousands here! waved Union Jacks.
Some carried huge posters marked "Hail the. Nelson touch" above their hobbing hands. ́Again and again they broke through the police lines.
It was a triumphant but strenuous return to port for the Ajax company. The men were mobbed by shouting, gesticulating people who almost bowled the sailors off their feet. A potty officer said he had "seen nothing like it since the Cup Final."
Police hati to force a way through the throng to help the sailors into buses which were to take them to a barbecue (feast) at the Shyago Polo *Club.
At the Plaza de la Independencia-Monte- video's Piccadilly-circus-the buses were held up for 15 minutes. by the crowds.
Girls leapt on to the running boards to present bouquets to the
nen und shake their hands.
No sign of life seems to remain in this former German village, some- where in No Man's Land on the Western Front. No humun is abroad no vehicle moves, not even a dog roams the streets of this deserted place. It's a ghost town now, for all the inhabitants left when war broke out. Note harricade set up by retreating French. Picture passed by German censor.
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"We must have damaged the Graf Speo-seriously, as after 10 minutes" The greatest cheer of all was firing, she emitted a smoke reserved
Sir and went towards the Plate at full whose speed.
for Rear-Adiniral Henry Harwood, the ma genius won the battle.
"We closed. She zig-zagged and throwing out smoke
Shy and a tle nonplusser by all continuedi the excitement, he ducked below screens, decks when he saw the crowd trying
to charge their way on to his ship.
At last the British Minister, Mr. Millington Drake, was able to struggle
him. Alter nboard to welcome conference they came ashore guarded by a strong loree of police.
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Mourners Rationed To One Dress
HITLER has just made a con- cession to Germany's women.
They are allowed to buy black materials for One mourning dress if they can produce docu- mentary proof that a near rela- tive has lost his life in action.
The Nazi authorities, however, seem to fear that this benefit for war widows may be misused.
forbidden
They have therefore cloth dealers to hand the cloth to the! customer. She must leave the ad- dress of her dressmaker behind.
The black cloth will then be sent to the dressmaker, who is warned that under no circumstances must it bei used for anything but a mourning dress.
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GERMAN
workers have been roused by the latest rianifestation of Nazi meanness,
A decree has been issued which In- structs employers that their workers must make up working time which
lose during an air raid warning. Working time cut short by such alarms must be made up within six weeks or workers will have 50 per cent. of their normat wages for the lost time deducted.
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"BRITAIN, the robber-State," is the subject of Munich's big New Year exhibition. It gives a picture of the "murderous activity of Britain during the last 140 years."
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Tlie Brst victim of Britain's "essasW. B.CORSETS. sination carnpaign," according to the Nazis, is Tsar Paul I of Russia, who was killed in 1801.
He was followed by Abraham Lin- of Portugal. coin and King Carlos Indeed, every murder, or even no- eldent that occurred to an inter- national personage during the lost! 110 years fu placed to the account of! the British Secret Service.
REYKJAVIK (Iceland),-Mrs., wife of the R.A.F. "The Ajax and Achilles closed in to four miles, frequently hitting the officer who landed in Iceland, went away, and then returned to
be interned, had her first lesson in Icelandic recently. Graf Sa
She is teaching herself the language left school I should ever again read
The table of crimes" includes, of 153. in Reykjavik.
Her husband sat in an armchair, course, the attack against tier in "The Ajax had two turrets out of
puffing a pipe. "I am not bothering the Munich beer-house, and the ex- She and her husband (their name to lears the lingo," he said.
hibition is described as the result ofį nction and the Achilles was also
are slaying is being kept secret) damaged, but both continued fighting with Dr. Olafson at Bessastadur, al side world, about which he thirsts
He is more interested in the out-many decades of research work. So it continued all day. There was a victory luncheon at the
"When the Graf Spee blew herself found her in the drawing-room for news. and to-night a
His wife, already more adapted to British Legation.
normal trying to master the thirty-three- clance is ing. We returned
letter Teetandle alphabet. formal dinner find
Iceland thin he, sat in thick brown patrol."
The doctor's wife and his pretty tweed ski-ing trousers and a Jasket į (daughter sluod over her correcting Lought in London.
She intends to take private tuition written letters,
In the language or to study in the H.M.S. Ajax sent £30 recently to Mrs--mild: "I
that University. the Lord Mayor's Red Cross and St. the first foreign language I should Holding, out her hand she said the Jolm Fund for the sick and wounded attempt should be Teelandic.. That "Goodbye" in Icelandic, The ward to relatives, as the in the war. The fund
at is something i owe to my husband, is "Bless" which means "Be blessed." Florida estate.
I never thought that once having
Hiven for officers and men.
ed
To-morrow they will be entertain-
to ou
mor the yun. Pro-Alles Ajax Aids Wounded her mistakes and praising her well-
Commitice.
To-day was not without its drama. To drop anchor at Montevideo the cruiser had to steam up harbour past the burned-nul wreck of the scuttled; Graf Spec.
lined the decks Omcers and men and saluted.
Soon after the Ajax fired a salute,, which was answered by the shore batteries and the sirens of ships in the harbour,
Ajax also passed near the interned Nazi supply ship Tacuma, which
s lying in the outer harbour under the command of Uruguayan naval watched seainen officials. German curiously the progress of the British ship.
Montevideans were surprised to see comparatively few signs of battle on the Ajax, though it was noticed that two of her lurrets were scarred.
No repairs will be carried out here.. The Ajax is paying a purely courtesy visit which is not expected to Inst more than two days-long enough to give the crew time to stretch their lega ashore.
The Battle-By Sir Henry
Sir Henry Harwood gave his first account of the battle, to-day. The Crat Spee, he said, was sighted ai 0.10 a.m. on December 13,
"She advanced and opened fire al 6.18, with one turret ring at the Excier and the other at the Ajax or Achilles,
"We all went at full speed and at- lucked in accordance with a pre- arranged plan,
"The Excier was on one flank, the Ajnx and the Achilles on the other.
The Exeter was hit early on. The bridge was wrecked and some stunn were pul out of action, but she went on closing in.
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