The Archive · 1940

Another Pocket-Battleship Abroad Montevider, Fein, 21

Another German pocket battleship, either the Admiral Scheer or the Deutschland, is believed to be ranging the Atlantic shipping lines, waiting to take revenge on/merchant, shipping for the sinking ofthe Admiral Graf Spee, the newspaper "El Pueblo" disclosed today. The "El Pueblo" supports this theory by recalling the arrival in November of the German freighter Lahn, which shortly afterwards departed for Buenos Aires. This ship, it is believed, has been assigned in the task of refuelling and provisioning the German raider.—Havas,

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