The Archive · 1940

Germany Protests to Uruguay

Berlin, Jan, 3 The German Ambassador in Mon: tevideo has protested to the Uri yan Government against the int ment of the freighter Tacoma, according to the German news agency. The Tacoma (8.268 tons) of the Hamburg-Amerika fine, was infGrned on Monday when she failed to leave Montevideo within. the time set by the Uruguayan authorities. The action was taken on the ground the Tacoma had intervened in the miral Graf Spee engagement as an auxiliary unit of the German Navy.

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