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...FRED GRAF...
...Inter-American Neutrality Conference at Panama undertook to establish a "neutrality belt" extending an average of 300 miles from the North and South American coasts. On Dec. 23 Panama's President Augusto Samuel Boyd protested against violation of that zone in the battle between the Admiral Graf Spee and three British cruisers (TIME, Dec. 25). In last week's reply to both the original declaration and the protest, Great Britain flatly refused to admit that a neutrality belt existed...
Into the estuary of the Rio de la Plata last week plowed the British light cruisers Ajax and Achilles. Ajax, steaming slowly past the still visible hulk of the scuttled Admiral Graf Spee, turned into Uruguay's port of Montevideo. Achilles went on up the estuary to Buenos Aires on the Argentine side. Each cruiser explained she came only to make a 48-hour courtesy call, give her crew shore leave, take on supplies and repair wear & tear sustained during many weeks at sea, not battle damage. Uruguay and Argentina each welcomed its visitor, though the Argentines left party...
While the cruisers Exeter, Ajax and Achilles were holing up the Graf Spee in the South Atlantic; while the R. A. F. harried Helgoland and two British submarines smacked the Nazi Navy in its own waters (TIME, Dec. 25)-across the North Atlantic, obscured by these events, and by winter fog and an efficient blanket of censorship, a large group of long, grey shapes proceeded methodically in eight days from Halifax, N. S. to a port in west Britain.* In that camouflaged convoy were such crack passenger liners as Aquitania, Batory, Empress of Britain. Guarding them was Britain...
...personal column of the London Daily Telegraph, Lady Harwood, wife of newly promoted Rear Admiral Sir Henry Harwood, pocketer of the Admiral Graf Spee, ". . . wishes to express her sincere sympathy with relatives of the officers and men who fell in the gallant action in La Plata...