The Archive · 1939

News Curtailed in Germany Amsterdam, Dee. 22

The story of the scuttling of the German liner Columbus was given bare six lines and the suicide of Captain Langsdorf, commander of the pocket-battleship Admiral Grat Spee, only two short paragraphs in most German papers yesterday, The German version of the Columbus " incident does not even mention the vessel was German and ives no hint of her size.

First casually lists of German victims of the Graf Spee battle are ow creeping: into the papers—

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