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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...
...Montevideo, enthusiastic native thousands pressed through a police cordon to get a good look at Ajax's two smashed gun turrets, to mend which she must go home to Britain. They goggled at the gap where a German shell tore through the cabin of Commodore (now Rear Admiral and Sir) Henry Harwood, smashed his bathroom, wiped out his wardrobe...
...Henry strode ashore (in borrowed regalia) to wreathe Montevideo's monument to General José Artigas, hero of Uruguay's war for independence in 1814-20, and to give the press his version of the historic Battle of Punta del Este...
...Less happy than the Spee's crew were members of the Spee's, tender-ship Tacoma, interned last week at Montevideo...
...Spee, who were found asleep below decks on the Tacoma when Uruguayan naval authorities boarded her. They, looking innocent, were not interned. They hoped for the same treatment which Uruguay gave to 108 Chinese crewmen of the German merchantmen Anatolia and Nienburg, who mutinied, refused to sail out of Montevideo when war was declared. Last week Uruguay shipped them on the Italian Oceania to Genoa, whence another Italian vessel will take them to Shanghai...