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LONDON--Great Britain will not permit the use of Norweglan or other neutral waters by the German fleet, Prime Minister Noville Chamberlain declared in Parliament today, repeating the British charge of Norwegian negligence in handling the German prison ship Altmark...
Great Britain is so proud of the delivery of British seamen from the German prison ship Altmark that the drama of Gjossingfjord may be made into a propaganda film...
LONDON--Great Britian tonight assumed the diplomatic offensive against Norway in the Altmark incident, demanding that Norway intern the German "hell ship" and charging Norway with falling in its duty as a neutral...
...story of what happened to 300 seamen and ship's officers taken from nine vessels captured and sunk by the late Admiral Graf Spee during her brief life as a sea raider. Some of them had been placed for a time aboard a secretly built auxiliary warship, the Altmark, a 12,000-tonner disguised as a tanker but hiding three 6-inch guns behind shutters and capable of 25 knots. Besides fueling the Spee (the last time, five days before the battle of Punta del Este), the Altmark was fitted with prison cells in her holds. Here the Spec...
Germany hotly denied maltreatment aboard the Altmark, but one commentator said: "Of course, we could not build roof gardens . . . for our enemies...