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Montevideo, Jan, 4.
VIVID account of the battle between the German pocket-battleship Admiral Graf Spee and British cruisers, in the estuary of the River Plate, was given here by Rear-Admiral Sir' Henry Harwood, who commanded the British naval forces in the. engagement.
Sir Henry, who arri ed here in the cruiser Ajax, which is now paying a courtesy visit to Montevideo said: "I knew that a German raider, probably a pocket-battleship, was in the South Atlantic at the beginning of December.
1 thought it might attack Bri ish trade off the South American coast, so I concentrated the Ajax, Achilles and Exeter at the mouth of the River Plate on December 12.
The next morning smoke was sighted—it was a pocket-battleship, "She advanced and opened fre with tone turret firing at the Exeter and the other at the Ajax or Achilles. We all went at full speed and attack ed in accordaner with a prearranged lan,
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