GAY CELEBRATIONS BY MEN OF ACHILLES
Visit To Buenos Aires (Received January 5, 12.35 a.in.) BUENOS AIRES, January 4. White the crews of H.M.S. Achilles and Ajax are enjoying their liberty here and at Montevideo Captain Barry, • commander of the Achilles, told a representative of the “New York Times” that the battle was won against an enemy superior in every way except speed only because of brilliant plans made on the day previously. Rear-Admiral Harwood said that tbe Admiral Graf Spee fled after the first 16 minutes of fighting, and the battle thereafter was a running one. Captain Parry was wounded by shell splinters in the legs, 'but the ship was only slightly hit. He praised the Achilles’ look-outs, who were rewarded with a sovereign apiece for the first sight of the enemy. He added that the battle was mostly 209 miles off-shore. The celebrations of the Achilles and Ajax here and at Montevideo are gay. The Associated Press representative reports that members of the personnel of the Achilles met members of the crew of the Graf Spee in a night club and exchanged toasts. They assured one another of unpersouai enmity.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 86, 5 January 1940, Page 10
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