To say that the announcement of the retirement of General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien from the command of the forces operating in East Africa will be received with very great regret throughout the Empire, does not in any way suggest a lack of confidence in his successor—General Smuts. The Allies owe much to the brilliant leadership of Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien in the first year of the war, and his appointment as Commander-in-Chief in East Afri held to forecast an cessful completion of paige. In January Sir Horace went out to the Cape for a consultation with the Union Government, after which he embarked for East A\
Letters from Shanghai men in this theatre of war have told of the trying climate and other hardship the troops are enduring, and surprise can hardly be expressed that a mao of fifty-eight years, who has spent a considerable part of his life campaigning in the tropics, and who has just passed a year in the greatest war the world has ever seen, should break down in health.
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