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ALL OF CREW SAVED SIGNS OF STRAIN YOUTHFUL SEAMEN INTERNMENT FACED (Reed. Dec. 19, 3 p.m.) BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 18 With the torn and twisted wrec'Kage of the Graf Spee still burning 20 hours after the vessel had been scuttled . and occasional explosions continuing to emphasise the melodramatic end, its weaxy officers and crew, surrounded by thousands of curious spectators, learned that the fate which they had hoped to escape in Uruguay none the less had overtaken them the moment they readied Argentina, namely internment The commander, Captain Langsdorff. upon arrival with his men at Buenos * Aires from the other side ot the month of the Plata in tugboats and a barge said: “I am satisfied. I saved all of my men.” Captain Langsdorff plainly showed the strain of the ordeal. The crew, mainly youngsters of J 8 to 21 years, similarly showed fatigue ana tension. ' ...
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20125, 20 December 1939, Page 7
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