FUNERAL OF GRAF SPEE’S DEAD
GERMAN ACCUSATION MISCONDICT BY BRITISH SEAMAN ALLEGED Received Dec. 22. 12.20 a.m. LONDON, Dec. 21. A message from Berlin reports that the official agency stated: “We have just learned of unexampled occurrences at the burial oi the Graf Spee’s dead. A British seaman spat on the coffins during lh> procession, yowled during the funeral oration and threw a dead dog intc ' the grave.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 302, 22 December 1939, Page 7
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68FUNERAL OF GRAF SPEE’S DEAD Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 302, 22 December 1939, Page 7
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