The Archive · 1940

Welcome for Men Of ELMS

A warm welcome greeted the Bri ish cruiser Ajax, one of the throe war Ships that defeated the German pocket-battleship Graf Spee, when it Brrived here today.

The newspaper "Eldia," with the widest "elreulation, had" splashed a three-column appeal to Uruguayan women to receive the men of the Ajax with flowers.

Aiter_a press reception aboard the Ajax, Rear-Admiral Sir Henry Hat wood, who commanded the British naval forces during the battle, visited the President of Urusuay and the Foreign and Defences Ministers. visit is purely a courtesy one, and last! two days—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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