CHIVALROUS FOE
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SAMOAN VETERANS PAY TRIBUTE TO VON SPEE
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Wellington, Tuesday. "The members of the Samoan Expeditionary Force owe a great debt to a great enemy, Admiral von Spee, who was commander of the Pacific Squadron of the German Fleet." declared Colonel R. S. McQuarrie, at the Samoan Veterans' re-union. "On one day the fate of the expeditionary force lay in that man's hands. We came back to New Zealand without a casualty, but the Samoan Expeditionary Force might have met its end. "Who, given the opportunity to inflict enormous losses, would have held his hand?" Colonel McQuarrie asked. "It was because 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 ofT at us." Colonel A. E. Cowles supported this view, mentioning that as time had smoothed over a great many difficulties we could appreciate the many fine points of some of our enemies in the late war.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 315, 31 August 1932, Page 5
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