The Archive · 1940

Admiral Graf Spee Scuttled in Montevideo Harbour

Culmsnating the fight with British cruisers off Montevideo, the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee entered port and left a few days later to be scuttled in the Rio de la Plata. Here the Graf Spee is shown in flames: before she finally sank. This picture was rdüioed from Buenos Aires to New York and then across the continent to San Francisco by International Soundphoto, and reached Shanghai by fast steamer.

Other pictures on Page 5. in flames and two others were driven down and are likely to have been Most. One of the three bombers returned safely, a second was shot down during the encounter and the third is missing," the communique adds, The pilot of the third machine said: "We were going south when, suddenly, the look-out man shouted "fighters." Almost before he had given the warning, I saw streams of white tracer bullets flashing past on the port side. I then realized this was a serious More Shoeks Renew Terror in

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