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GRAF SPEE

PROVISIONS OF HAGUE CONVENTION BRITAIN SEEKING ENFORCEMENT POSSIBLE MOVE BY ENEMY SHIP. MAY STAY WITHIN THREE MILE LIMIT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received This Day, Noon J LONDON, December 15. It is officially stated that Britain is doing her utmost to see that the provisions of the Hague Convention are carried out. Under Article 17, the .Admiral Graf Spee is allowed to carry out such repairs as to render her seaworthy, but may not add to her fighting strength. As apparently she is not damaged to such an extent that her speed is seriously curtailed, she may be regarded as seaworthy and therefore must put to sea in twenty-four hours or be interned. Of course the Graf Spee may go to sea and hug the coast within the three-mile limit. The German Radio declares that the Graf Spee is still seaworthy and needs only minor repairs. It describes members of the crew as visible cleaning the deck or sunbathing.

'YORK OF ACHILLES MESSAGE FROM FIRST LORD. EXPRESSION OF WARM ADMIRATION. (Received This Day, noon). LONDON. December 15. The First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr Winstcn Churchill) has sent a message to the New Zealand Minister of Defence: “May i express warm admiration of the most gallant action fought by the Achilles, whose services were so generously given at the outbreak of war/’ RAIDER VICTIMS SINKING OF THE ASHLEA AND HUNTSMAN. (Received This Day, noon.) MONTEVIDEO. December 15. Captain Pottinger said the Ashlea was sunk on October 2. He was given ten. minutes to abandon the 'ship. The crew was transferred to the Newton Beech, which followed the Graf Spee. Provisions were seized and the Ashlea was sunk with .bombs. The Huntsman’s Chief Officer, Mr Thompson, said a prize crew boarded the Huntsman on October 10 and she followed the Graf See for a week to disguise her position, because she had wirelessed a warning. She was later sunk with bombs.

RAIDER’S ROUTE COURSE TRACED BY ADMIRALTY. MOST OF TAIROA'S CREW ABOARD AUXILIARY. (Received This Day, 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, December 15. The Admiralty spokesman stated that the Admiralty had not heard anything from the British ships for some time. Since they were still at sea they were not operating the wireless and for this reason there was no knowledge of the damage sustained. There was no reason to suppose that the Achilles and the Ajax suffered severe damage, though no doubt the Exeter had a hard knock. The Admiralty has now traced the approximate course of the Graf Spec after sinking the Clement on September 30 off Pernambuco, after which she sank the Newton Beach on October 6. the Ashlea on October 7, Huntsman on October 10, and Trevannian on October 22, all north-east from St. Helena, whence she rounded the Cape and sank the Africa Shell on November 1, north-east from. Lourencomarque. She then again rounded the Cape and sank the Doric Star on December 2, southeast from St. Helena in latitude 20 and sank the Tairoa on December 3. She then steamed to Montevideo, sinking the Streonshalh en route. The Shaw Savill Co. has been advised from Montevideo that seven members of the crew of the Tairoa were aboard the Graf Spec but the commander and the remainder of the crew were aboard an enemy auxiliary.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 December 1939, Page 8

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GRAF SPEE Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 December 1939, Page 8

GRAF SPEE Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 December 1939, Page 8

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