SAD FAREWELL
THE BURIAL OF CAPTAIN LANGSDORFF FUNERAL AT BUENOS AIRES. OBSERVANCES AT GRAVESIDE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. BUENOS AIRES, December 21. A thousand sad-faced German seamen marched into the Argentine naval arsenal this afternoon to pay a final tribute to Captain Langsdorff, commander of the Admiral Graf Spee. Outside only a thousand spectators waited to glimpse the coffin en route to the German cemetery. Three hundred German seamen were given permission to leave the arsenal precincts and accompany the body to its burial. Captain Kay, second in command of the Admiral Graf Spee, accompanied by two Argentine officers and 11 automobiles bearing the officers of the Admiral Graf Spee, followed the hearse. Ten thousand people were massed at the cemetery gates through which three officers and five men carried the coffin. The ship’s band played a dirge and a Lutheran pastor conducted the service. The German Ambassador io Argentina. Dr von Thermann, dressed in Nazi uniform, spoke, after which German residents and the officers and crew saluted and sang “I had a Comrade.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 December 1939, Page 6
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173SAD FAREWELL Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 December 1939, Page 6
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