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...here's a tale will e'er be told, the fate of the Admiral Spee...
...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 of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, who made...
Less fortunate than the Columbus' crew, for the moment, are crews of Nazi ships still stewing in Brazilian, Ecuadorian and other tropical ports. Last week three German ships made a run for it from Brazil and eleven interned officers and men of the scuttleship Admiral Graf Spee disappeared from Montevideo. Still at Curaçao and Aruba in The Netherlands West Indies last week were a dozen vessels whose lot was particularly hard because the Dutch, gloomily expecting an attack on their homeland, are ill-disposed toward Nazis, are also afraid they might by way of sabotage set fire...
...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...
From refugees who arrived in London last week, with additional details flashed from Montevideo, came the 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...