FINAL TRIBUTE
Burial Of Captain Langsdorff
SCENE AT GRAVESIDE
By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received December 22, 9.5 p.m.)
BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 21
A thousand sad-faced German seamen marched into the Argentine naval arsenal this afternoon to pay a final tribute to Captain Langsdorff, commander of the Admiral Graf Spee. Outside only a thousand spectators waited to glimpse the coffin en route to the German cemetery. Three hundred German seamen were given permission to leave the arsenal precincts and accompany the body to its burial. Captain Kay, second in command of the Admiral Graf Sipee, accompanied by two Argentine officers and 11 automobiles bearing the officers of the Admiral Graf Spee, followed the hearse.
Ten thousand people were massed at the cemetery gates through which three officers and five men carried the coffin.
The ship’s band played a dirge and a Lutheran pastor conducted the service.
The German Ambassador to Argentina, Dr. von Thermann, dressed in Nazi .uniform, spoke, after which German residents and the officers and crew saluted and sang “I had a Comrade.” \
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 77, 23 December 1939, Page 11
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