THE GRAF SPEE
USE OF DISINFECTANTS. NO SUGGESTION REGARDING GAS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, January 18. The captains of British merchant xessels who were prisoners on board the German battleship Admiral Graf Spee at the time of the action off the River Plate and who have just returned to England, state that after the battle the German dead were laid out on deck and the corpses were sprayed with a very strong disinfectant having a pungent, offensive odour. A great part of the ship was also treated in this way. ''—lK. The British prisoners on board the Admiral Graf Spee. moreover, aver that no suggestion of the possible use of gas shells was made even by the most inexperienced on board the Admiral Graf Spee.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 January 1940, Page 9
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