GERMAN LIES
RECEIVED WITH CONTEMPT IN U.S.A. EVIDENCE OF RADIOED PICTURES. SHOWING DAMAGE TO GRAF SPEE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, December 16. A Berlin message says the German official news agency continues Io tone down unfavourable aspects o')' Montevideo reports beyond recognition. It claims that several British reconnaissance planes joined in the battle and were shot down. A New York report says the reaction in the United States to the German shortwave account of the battle is one of contemptuous hilarity. Faced with radioed pictures of the Admiral Graf Spee showing the damage, Americans are chary of accepting the German assurances that' she bears no visible traces of the battle. The “New York Times" editorially comments that Germany lost another battle when she lied about, the Admiral Graf Spee. “The discount rate of official German statements has always been high ” it adds. “A few more like this and it will close at 100 per cent "
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 December 1939, Page 7
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