A GREAT ENEMY
ADMIRAL VON SPEE INCIDENT IN SAMOA • ' [BY TELEGRAPH —01YN. correspondent] .. WELLINGTON. Monday ".", "Members of the. Samoan Expeditions' ary Force owe a groat debt to that great enemy, Admiral Voa Spee," said R. S. McQuarrie, at a reunion of Samoa« 6 veterans on Saturday evening.
"On one day tlio fate of the expecK-' tion lay in that man's hands," said Colonel McQuarrie. "We came back to , New Zealand casualty, but tha Samoan force might have met its end.Who, given the opportunity to ..inflict, enormous losses, would have held - hand?" he asked. "It was hecause Von? Spee was a great" admiral and a ; greste gentleman that we escaped; He:-refused - to be a wanton killer, but sailed away, and left us because he did not see that any military objec; could be gained by loosing off at us." • • :
Colonel A. E. Cowles supported this view, mentioning that as time had smoothed over a jjreat many difficulties, we could appreck.te many of the fine points of some of our enemies in the lata, war.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21274, 30 August 1932, Page 10
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173A GREAT ENEMY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21274, 30 August 1932, Page 10
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