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The Illustrated London News Saturday December 23, 1939 The World Copyright of all the Editorial Matter, both Illustrations and Letterpress, is Strictly Reserved in Great Britain, the British Dominions and Colonies, Europe, and the United States of America SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1939. THE "GRAF VON SPEE." A NAME ONCE MORE ASSOCIATED WITH A GREAT BRITISH NAVAL VICTORY: THE NAZI RAIDER WHICH WAS DRIVEN, BATTERED, INTO MONTEVIDEO BY THE SKILL AND DARING OF BRITISH CRUISERS. The South Atlantic was an ill-omened place for a ship bearing the name " Graf von Spee" to operate in. In these waters, twenty-five years ago, the bearer of that name went to his doom, with the bulk of his fine squadron, in the Battle of the Falkland Islands. On December 13, the " Graf von Spee," the latest of Germany's much-vaunted pocket-battleships to be launched, fell in with three British cruisers, all smaller and much less heavily armed than herself, under the command of Commodore H. H. Harwood. In spite of their inferiority, they relentlessly attacked the pocket-battleship, and with such skill that she ran for a neutral port. The rest of the story is too well known to need repetition here. As we write, it appears unlikely that the ” Spee." which has been responsible for the sinking of some 50,000 tons of merchant shipping in the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans, will fight again; or if she does, her career will be short. A portrait of Commodore Harwood, and Illustrations dealing with the action. appear on succeeding pages. (A.P.)