Delayed Greetings to Hitler
Torpedoes From the Achilles That Did Not Go DOMINION SAILOR’S REGRET United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyrlgh t. Received Friday, 9.20 p.m. BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 4. Amid the general celebration of the victory over the Graf Spee one of the Achilles’ New Zealand ratings expressed keen disappointment. At one phase of the battle, he explained, when an order was given to stand by to release the torpedoes, he hurriedly wrote on the heads of four torpedoes,” “Greetings to Herr Hitler,” but the Ajax manoeuvred in between, preventing the Achilles loosing the torpedoes. However, two ratings, Brush and Weston, were winners of Captain Parry’s one sovereign premium for sighting the enemy warship and were thoroughly happy. They said they were keeping them permanently as souvenirs.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 5, 6 January 1940, Page 7
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