SOUTH-WEST AFRICA
NEW COMMAND CREATED STEP URGED BY CITIZENS OF TERRITORY. MILITARY ORGANISATION DESIRED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) RUGBY. November 13. The Governor-General of South Africa. Sir Patrick Duncan, with the approval of the King, has accepted appointment. as Colonel-in-Chief of the South African Air Forces. The creation of a new military command in South Africa is also announced. namely, the South-West Africa Command, comprising the mandated territory and the port and settlement of Walvis Bay. to which under a recent proclamation, the South Africa Defence Act applies. The citizens of South-West Africa have for some time past urged the Union Government to create a military organisation in that territory.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 November 1939, Page 5
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114SOUTH-WEST AFRICA Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 November 1939, Page 5
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