WAR OPPONENTS MEET
SMUTS TO PROPOSE TOAST
OF LETTOW-VORBECK NOTED GERMAN SOLDIER British Official Wireless RUGBY, Thursday. An interesting meeting will take place on December 2 between General J. C. Smuts, who commanded the British forces in East Africa during the Great War, and the German General, von Lettow-Vorbeck, his opponent in that struggle. The occasion is the East African campaign dinner, at which General Smuts will take the chair, and will propose the toast of General von Lettow-Vorbeck. It is recalled that General von Lettow-Vorbeck surrendered only after the signing of an armistice which specially accorded him the honours of war.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 798, 19 October 1929, Page 9
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102WAR OPPONENTS MEET Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 798, 19 October 1929, Page 9
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