The defeat of the Admiral Graf Spee, by three British cruisers equipped with considerably inferior guns, and her entry into Montevideo obviously to escape final destruction with which she was threatened, is singularly enough being claimed by the Germans as a naval victory. If this is the sort of thing the Reich propagandists consider victory, then the more of such successes they gain the better will the Allies be pleased, for, despite greater striking power, with guns which completely outranged those of the British vessels, Admiral Graf Spee has been subjected to a severe hammering which forced her to turn tail and flee for safety. It was the success of the British cruisers in sinking one German supply vessel, and holding up another in Montevideo which forced the commander of the German pocket battleship to desperate courses, and he decided to seize supplies from a French vessel despite the known presence of H.M.S. Exeter in the neighbourhood. The story of the fight has been recounted in considerable detail, and it tells of the determined manner in which the
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