CAPE TOWN, Tues (AAP): Eighty-year-old Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, for many years Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, died suddenly - and peacefully - at his home at Irene, near Pretoria, at 3.35 a.m. (Perth time) today. The General-that is what he preferred to be called - had been fighting to regain his health after an illness which began on May 28. Earlier in the day he had listened to a radio news bulletin o nhis health and jokingly said to his wife: "Well, now the ^vorld knows how I am getting on." He had spent a happy day in the countryside with his wife and family, roaming among the trees and flow- ers he had always admired since his days on the African veldt with the Boers. He returned to the farm, had dinner, then walked slowly to his room. Within seconds he had collapsed on ...
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The Daily News (Perth, WA : 1882 - 1955), Tue 12 Sep 1950, Page 1
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