An item dated Montevideo, Uruguay 14th reported that the Uruguayan authorities promised the British representative that all prisoners of war on board of the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee were released. They all belonged to the crews of the sunk merchant ships.(1)
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1. Of the Deutschland-class armoured ships well known as pocket battleships later classified as heavy cruisers. Laid down by Reichsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven, Germany on 1 October 1932, launched on 30 June 1934, commissioned on 6 January 1936, after the Battle of the River Plata with British/New Zealand cruisers on 13 December, scuttled by her own crew in the harbour of Montevideo, Uruguay on 17 December 1939
