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Police in Buenos Aires were all set for some fancy brawling between the conquering Achilles crew and interned sailors of the Spee, who have the run of the city until midnight, when they must go to their quarters in the naval arsenal. Instead of brawling, the former foes fascinated their hosts by fraternizing warmly in sailors' night spots, swapping stories of their battle, toasting each other...
...Less happy than the Spee's crew were members of the Spee's, tender-ship Tacoma, interned last week at Montevideo...
Five of them got hold of one of the Spee's motor launches one night last week and tried to escape. They were captured after sunrise near the Spee's grave...
Happier than the Tacoma's crew were five Chinese laundrymen off the 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...
...newspapers with Allied bias last week compared the Spee's inglorious scuttling with the work of two Australian marine engineers who arrived in Manhattan with accounts of how they and a crew of twelve scuttled an obsolete 10,000-tonner (one of six) in a channel of Scapa Flow After plugging the nose of the vessel into a mudbank, they left her with engines racing forward, slid overside on ropes in time to escape blasts set off in her hold by electric impulse from shore. Workmen had replaced steel plates with wooden planking in sections of the ship...