The Archive · 1939

In Commons

London, Dec. 14.

"The Finns are defending their country with a courage and determination to be expected of that gallant people," Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister, declared in the House of Commons today in a speech in which he reviewed international relentlessly have smaller guns than the pocket an vessel tried her utmost to escape to the open h cruisers, relying on their speed, forced her to from where tens of thousands of persons watched fish cruisers anchored off Punta Carretas, ten: miles and to take up a vigilant watch ship, The British were expected to em-hich would completely trap the Graf Spee and to escape from the port.

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