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■ THE GRAF SPEE LEAVES MONTEVIDEO i — i MARRIED MEN ON BOARD TRANSFERRED I, — ■ TO FOLLOWING TACOMA. (Received This Day. 11.20 a.m.) MONTEVIDEO. December 17. Shortly before 6 p.m. the Admiral Graf Spee began raising her anchors. She then began moving up the River Plate, apparently towards Buenos Aires, instead of to the open sea. but she halted suddenly after proceeding a few hundred yards and then swung about and headed towards the sea at 6 p.m., after transferring all the married men on board to the Tacoma, which followed. NEW ZEALAND OFFICER SERVING ON THE AJAX. LIEUT.-COMMANDER HOLMES OF MATAHIWI. Lieutenant-Commander H. B. C. Holmes, of Matahiwi. Masterton. was in the Ajax in the recent action. He has been in the ship for about 2 years. He is a member of the Royal Navy and had served for two terms in New Zealand on the Diomede and the Philomel, besides on the China Station. He attended the Royal Naval Colleges at Osborne and at Dartmouth, commencing his studies when a boy of 12. He married Miss Nancy Russell, youngest daughter of the late Hon. Harold Russell. of Hastings. Lieut.-Commander Holmes is a brother of Major J. C. Holmes of Matahiwi and a son of Mrs S. E. M. Holmes.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 December 1939, Page 7
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212HEADED FOR SEA Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 December 1939, Page 7
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