“A GREAT GENTLEMAN”
ADMIRAL VON SPEE r COLONEL M'QUARRIE’S TRIBUTE (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, August 28. “ Members of the Samoan Expeditionary Force owe a great debt to a great enemy—Admiral von Spec,” declared Colonel K. S. M'Quarrie at the Samoan Veterans’ reunion on Saturday evening. “On one day the fate of the expedition lay in that man’s hands. Wc came back to New Zealand without a casualty but the Samoan Force might have met its end. Who, given the opportunity to inflict enormous losses, would have held his hand ? ” Colonel M'Quarrie asked. “It was because Admiral von Spee was a great admiral and a great 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 object could be gained by loosing off at us.” Colonel A. E. Cowles supported this view, mentioning that as time had smoothed over a great many difficulties we could appreciate many fine points of some of our enemies in the late war.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21735, 29 August 1932, Page 8
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