GRAF SPEE ECHO
AUSTRALIAN WOOL* CLIP If the Australian wool clip had not boon two weeks late the battle oil' Punta del Este never would have been fought and the German battleship Admiral Graf Spee would probably still be afloat. Captain Hans Langsdorff told the imprisoned British captains, when he had them as wardoom guests several times, that he went to South Africa to intercept steamers carrying Australian wool to Britain, Ordinarily these ships travel through the Mediterranean, but since the war started vessels from Australia have been travelling round the southern. end of the African continent. Australia's wool clip was two weeks Inter than usual this year, and Captain LangsdorlY got impatient and decided to go across to the South American coast to raid shipping from the River Plate.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 123, 14 February 1940, Page 7
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130GRAF SPEE ECHO Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 123, 14 February 1940, Page 7
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