FUEL SHIP INTERNED
GERMAN VESSEL TACOMA ACTION BY URUGUAY. ARMED GUARD PLACED ABOARD. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. MONTEVIDEO, December 26. The German fuel ship Tacoma, which acted as a rescue vessel when the Admiral Graf Spee was scuttled, was interned today. A decree will be issued shortly, and an armed guard is aboard. Germany has requested permission from Uruguay to appoint certain officers of the Admiral Graf Spee as attaches at the Montevideo and Buenos Aires legations. GRAF SPEE’S CAPTAIN SUICIDE IN OLD GERMAN FLAG. It is now learned in Buenos Aires, states a Reuters message, that .the flag in which the commander of the Admiral Graf Spee, Captain Langsdorff, draped himself before committing suicide, was the flag of old Imperial Germany.—By radio. BRITISH EX=PRISONERS . EMBARK ON ENGLISH LINER. A Montevideo message states that five British captains and 55 seamen, who were captives aboard the German battleship, Admiral Graf Spee, have embarked on a British liner. —By radio.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 December 1939, Page 5
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157FUEL SHIP INTERNED Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 December 1939, Page 5
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