FINAL TRIBUTE.
GRAF SPEE CAPTAIN.
Ten Thousand Mass At Gates
Of Cemetery.
LUTHERAN BURIAL SERVICE
United Press Association.—Copyright.
BL EXOS A\RES, December 22.
One thousand sad-faced German seamen marched into the Argentine naval arsenal yesterday afternoon to pay their final tribute to Captain Langsdorff, the late commander of the scuttled battleship Admiral Graf Speo. Outside numerous spectators waited for a glimpse of the coffin en route to the (icrman cemetery. Three hundred of the German soanien had been given permission to leave the precincts of the arsenal and accompany the body to the burial ground. Captain Kay, who had l»een second in command of the Graf Spec, accompanied by two Argentina officers and other officers of the battleship in 11 motor cars, followed the hearse. Ten thousand people were massed at the gates of the cemetery, whence three officers and five men carried the coffin. The ship's band played a dirge and a Lutheran pastor read the burial service. The German Ambassador, Herr von Thermann, clad in Nazi uniform, spoke at the graveside, after which German residents, officers and the crew gave the Nazi salute and sang, "I Had a Comrade."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 303, 23 December 1939, Page 9
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