Word: punta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thousands of Britons lined the shores of Plymouth Sound early one morning last week to behold the cruiser Exeter, leading lady of the Battle of Punta del Este, steaming home under her own power after being patched up in the Falkland Islands. Her funnels riddled, her sides repainted but still scarred by shells from the Admiral Graf Spee, she tied up at Devonport alongside her comrade in action, the Ajax (third participant, the Achilles, is still on duty off South America). Aboard stepped Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon and First Lord...
...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's captives were-perhaps still are-verminously herded, scantily fed, given only one quart of water each per day for drinking and washing. Officers are humiliated by being forced to do latrine duty. During...
...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...