The Archive · 1939

South Atlantic

Graf Spee was Responsible For All Losses London, Dec. 16, The names of the ships sunk by the German pocket-battleship Admiral Graf Spee, and the approximate positions where their crews were captured, show that the German warship was responsible for all the losses in the South Atlantic known to have occurred, says the Naval Correspondent of "The Times" today.

There is, therefore, no reason to suppose, he adds, that there is any other German raider at large in those waters, It is also indicated, the correspondent goes on, that whenever the raider did anything that would probably have led to her presence being reported, such as the sinking of the Africa Shell, and the stopping of the Dutch ship Mapia off Mozambique, she immediately left the vicinity at high speed.

Reports hitherto received, he concludes, do not make it clear when ther she sank all her captures—Reuter,

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