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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gloom. Just before dark there were two sharp clashes, and it was evidently in one of those that Spee suffered a final disaster: A hit at the forefoot, at bow and waterline, so that as she went through the sea she shipped water. At last night fell, Spee limped away, turned about, ingloriously backed into Montevideo and wearily dropped her anchor. She was out and all but down...
Captain Langsdorff called up the 62 captives, and as he set them free (under parole not to give away naval secrets), said to them: "The cruisers made a gallant fight. When people fight like that, personal enmity is lost...
Outside in the river Spee anchored. Over the sides into barges and launches scrambled the crew. Captain Langsdorff stepped into a launch which, as it drew away from Spee, dragged a long, thin cable...
Coming on the heels of the Bremen's escape, this made two bulls to one beat for the week. Day after the Bremen's escape, the Admiralty announced that the submarine that let her get away had sunk a German submarine, had torpedoed and damaged a German cruiser. This evened the count. It is extremely difficult for one submarine to sink another. Maneuvering for position requires great technical skill, and it is almost impossible to attack if the submarine is submerged. If the range is under 250 yards, the torpedo is likely to miss, and at short range...
Stripped of its unsurpassable insanity, the new Hellzapoppin, like the old, is the worst kind of ham vaudeville. But, as a tourist once grumbled, "Take away the mountains and the lakes, and what is there to Switzerland...