German Ships Make Dash for Home
LONDON, Dec. 27. The llio de Jauiero correspondent of tho Now York Times says that 15 German ships in Brazilian jiorts are keeping steam up ready to depart. Some arc already loaded, and others aro loading. It is believed that they will leave singly. It is now learned in Buenos Aires, states a Reuters message, that the flag in which the commander of the Admiral Graf Spee, Captain Langsdorff, draped himself before committing suicide, was the flag of old Imperial Germany. Five British captains and 55 seamen, who were captives aboard tho Admiral Graf Spec, have embarked on a British liner.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 307, 29 December 1939, Page 7
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