The extent of the damage suffered inside the ship could not be deter mined because German oticers aboard the ship refused to permit anyone aboard.
The Exeter and Ajax, although they were reported to have been seriously Samaged, sailed out of the harbour here carly yesterday.
The German Legation was reported to have sent a note to the Foreign Omce here yesterday" asking permission to land an armed force to bury the 36 seamen killed aboard the Admiral Grat Spee.
'A source close to the German. Legation later said he believed the pocket battleship "probably will leave within a week." By that time, observers believed, however, the British Navy could mass such a great number of heavy ships outside the harbour here that it would be suicide for the Admiral Graf Spee to attempt to escape.
German sources said the Graf Spec's machinery was not damaged in' the battle with the three British cruisers jand the ship was said not to have been hit below the waterline,
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