Had she managed to escape capture return to Mexico, the Columbus would have been given the alternative of being interned oF of leaving immediately, a high Mexican official fold the press here today.
This attitude would have been the' natural consequence of the actions of the Columbus when she was. it Mexico. At that time she engaged in supplying submarines with fuel and broadcasting secretly to ships at sca contrary to the rules of international It is believed that the Columbus had_a huge cargo of boots for the German Army on board when she sank—Havas.
"AIL the men boarded the 'Tuscas roosa, which, meanwhile, remained two Malles distant. 'The men on the 'Tuscaloosa, from' the Captain down, did everything possible for us.
is" dificult to express our gratitude."
The Captain of the Tuseatoosa shrugged his shoulders at this and commented, "If you set an order, you All that order and that's the way Breach of Old German Tradition London, Dee. 21.
'The news that" Capiain Hans Langsdort has committed suicide bears out the view previously taken that' the scuttling of the pocket battleship Admiral Grat Spee wax directly ordered by Herr Hitler, and that her ignominious end is as great a. violation of the traditions of the old German Navy as the sinking of defenceless merchantmen and trawl-
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