GRAF SPEE DECEIVED
BRITISH CAPTAIN’S TACTICS CRIPPLING OF GERMAN RAIDER (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyrtghi) LONDON, February 15 A member of the crew of H.M.S. Exeter told how Captain Bell tricked the Admiral Graf Spee into miscalculating the range, thus enabling the Exeter to dash in and cripple the pocket battleship. “We first sighted the Admiral Graf Spee as a patch of smoke,” he said, Captain Bell took us dead towards the Admiral Graf Spee, which opened fire long before we could reply with our smaller guns. Captain Bell ordered depth charges to be thrown overboard and the explosions deceived the Germans into thinking that they were their shells bursting, thus giving us a chance to attain about a 10,000 yards range and let the Admiral Graf Spee have it. She should have blown us out of the water.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21041, 17 February 1940, Page 7
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