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Bottom picture shows Colonel Witt Pi feo Re, Commander, on the left, with Lt.-Col. C. I. Murray, Mar his Chief-of-Staff. correspondent on the day that the Graf Spee, sailing stern first so as to ji avoid shipping water, limped into port in s sorry state with British ships, like terriers, snapping at her heels. Describing ihe battle as a disastrous defeat for the German ship, the correspondent stated that naval experts in Montevideo were amazed at the success of the three smaller British cruisers.
The correspondent writes: One of the 10,000-ton £3,750,000 pocket battleships, on which Germany had staked such high hopes, today swung at anchor in Montevideo harbour, crippled by at least 13 hits from the smaller guns of three British cruisers. She had suffered disastrous defeat in the first serious naval engagement of the war and one of the most thrilling fights in the annals of the sea.
Her opponents were the Ajax, 6.985 tons; Achilles, 7,030 tons, and Exeter, $90 tons. Bigger and stronger than the British vessels that pursued her like terriers in an all-day running fight along the Uruguayan coast, the German ship had been forced to turn tail and seek refuge in this neutral port with $6 dead and 60 seriously wounded and with 30 or 40 minor casualties, Her captain is reputed to have said that he would have stood and fought two ships, but three against him made continued faction impossible.
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