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END WITHOUT FIGHT SUICIDE OF SHIP {Reed Dec. 19. 10 a.m.) ROME, Dec. 18. “Incredible,” exclaimed a group ot Italian naval men at midnight when they heard the news of the scuttling of the Graf von Spee, which is regarded as proof that she was more badly damaged than Berlin had admitted. I Italian naval authorities consider it would have been better to submit to internment than to condemn a fine ship to ignominious suicide without a fight,
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20124, 19 December 1939, Page 5
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