Word: callao
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From Callao, Peru, two German ships sailed in the night without clearance papers. Next day the Peruvian cruiser Almirante Grau found them burning 200 miles offshore. Two larger ships which tried to sail were halted by five shots from the cruiser Coronel Bolognesi. Their crews fired them in the harbor. At Paita another German ship was burned. Peru retaliated by seizing the hangars and workshops and two Junkers planes of the Lufthansa airline, by taking possession of the assets of Lufthansa and German shipping companies...
...scarcely more than $50,000. But it pegged the German luftweb on the West Coast, connected with a route reaching straight across South America from Rio de Janeiro, thus was important out of all proportion to its size. When two German freighters were scuttled in the Peruvian harbor of Callao last week (see p. 41), troops rushed to the L.P. airport at Limatambo. There they found Ernest Eilers, L.P. manager, and Ernest Krefft, manager of Kosmos-Hapag Steamship Agency, preparing to flee from Peru in the L.P. Junkers. The troops took over...