LOSSES ON ACHILLES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 December 1939, Page 7

LOSSES ON ACHILLES

' FOUR MEMBERS OF CREW KILLED TWO NEW ZEALANDERS INCLUDED. OTHERS SERIOUSLY INJURED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. i Received This Day. 10 a.m.) LONDON. December 15. Four members of the A.chilles complemenji were killed. They include Able Seaman A. C. H. Shaw, of Rotorua and Seaman I. W. Grant, of Dunedin. The seriously injured include Able Seamen E. V. Sherley. of Te Awamutu, and L. C. Martinson, of Auckland. Only the captain and four other officers of the Doric Star were aboard the Graf Spee. the members of the crew having been placed aboard other enemy ships and being still missing.

BURIAL OF VICTIMS WREATH FROM BRITISH SEAMEN. PARADE IN CITY PROHIBITED. (Received This Day. 10 a.m.) MONTEVIDEO, December 15. Some 5000 people watched the landing of coffins containing the bodies of the Graf Spee victims. Fourteen bus loads of the Graf Spee's crew. Uruguayan and German officers followed the bodies to the cemetery. One wreath was inscribed: “To the memory of brave men of the sea from comrades of the British Merchant Service.” The authorities banned a parade in the city to avoid incidents, because of the general ill feeling against the Graf Spee.

OFFICIAL WARNING GRAF SPEE TO LEAVE WITHIN 72 HOURS. OR ACCEPT INTERNMENT. (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) MONTREAL. December 15. The United Press Montevideo correspondent says Uruguay has warned the Admiral Graf Spee to leave within seventy-two hours or be interned. The ordqr followed on a Cabinet meeting. German sources declare without confirmation that German warships and possibly submarines are assembling to meet the waiting cruisers in combat. They add that German prestige will not permit the internment of the Graf Spee.