FOUND DEAD
CAPTAIN OF GRAF SPEE FAREWELL LETTER LEFT. DECISION TO SHARE DESTINY OF SHIP. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. . (Received This Day, 9.15 a.m.) NEW YORK, December 20. The Buenos Aires correspondent of the United Press of America says Captain Langsdorff, commander of the Admiral Graf Spee, committed suicide. He was found by his aide shot dead, in an immigrants' hotel. Captain Langsdorff left a letter stating that from the first moment he decided to share the destiny of his ship, but postponed it until assured of the safety of his crew.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 December 1939, Page 7
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91FOUND DEAD Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 December 1939, Page 7
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