EXTENSION OF TIME
SOUGHT FOR GRAF SPEE URUGUAYAN CABINET TO DECIDE. RENOWN AND ARK ROYAL AT RIO. MONTEVIDEO. December 17. The Admiral Graf Spee remains poised for flight while Cabinet meets to decide the German plea for an extension of her stay. It is officially learnt that Captain Langsdorfl' considered going to Buenos Aires, but when the subject was broached unofficially the Germans were informed that the Admiral Graf Spee would not be allowed to remain more than 24 hours in any Argentine port. Rio de Janeiro reports that the aircraft carrier Ark Royal has joined the Renown in the harbour there.
GRAF SPEE CASUALTIES VICTORY TALK DROPPED IN GERMANY. (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON. December 17. A Berlin message says the High Command now has published the Admiral Graf Spee casualties as 36 killed. 6 seriously injured and 53 slightly wounded. The German Press has dropped the Admiral Graf Spee victory talk but stress her heroism against three eruisUruguay’s time limit lias still not been announced
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19391218.2.34.6
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 December 1939, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
168EXTENSION OF TIME Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 December 1939, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in