WOUNDED SAILORS
/ -RIVER PLATE ACTION ELEVEN MEN ENTERTAINED LONDON, Mar. 21. (Received Mar. 22, at 10 p.m.) According to news messages from Capetown 11 British sailors who were wounded in the River Plate action with the Admiral Graf Spee and are now convalescing at Simonstown were entertained at a civic luncheon at Capetown. They were cheered by thousands of people as they drove.through the streets. General Smuts telegraphed a message of appreciation of the gallantry shown in the action, and Mr Sturrock, the Minister of Railways, in a speech said that owing to the magnificent work of the Royal Navy the trade of the Union was flowing as smoothly ih war as it did in peace.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24254, 23 March 1940, Page 11
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