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ROBERTS OF KANDAHAR, patches and created a Companion commission as second lieutenant In 1878, commanding the and, after passing through the Frontier Field Force at Abbot various other grades, was promot Character Sk-tch of a Great abad in Hazara, and later in the ed to lieutenant-general in 1883. with distinction game year the Kuram Field He served Force, he came as directing throughout the Indian Mutiny induence into history, and it campaign, and received The news of the death in, should not be needful to mention Viatoria Cross for personal brav France of Earl Roberta of Kanda- the magnificent, achievements by ery in the field in 1858. "Lieu- hat is contained in our telegram which he led bia hastily, strength tenant Roberta's gallantry has on columns to-day, and in view of ened force from Kuram to Kabul, every occasion been most marked, his magnificent services to the held at bay and defeated at On following up the retreating Empire the following character Sherpur hundred thousand enery on January 2, 1858, at sketch, contributed some time ago Afghans, and, at the lowest ebb Khodagunge, he saw in the dis- to the Saturday Review by Mr. of our frontier fortuner, arched tance two sepoys going away with H. F. Preve Battersby, should be over three hundred miles in a standard. Lieutenant Roberts read with deep interest:- twenty-two days to the relief of put spurs to his horse, and over-

Very rarely indeed can it be Kandahar, fighting a battle on took them just as they were about BREAKFAST BACON in rashers said that a nation has risen to his arrival. The Zhob and to enter a village. They immod- greatness which has lacked the Hanza Nagar Campaigne were lately turned round and presented pattern of virtue in its great men. still to add to his laurels on the their muskets at him, and one of Nothing in the history of the frontier; but, meanwhile, the the men pulled the trigger, but world has counted like characte; dramatic completeness of his fortunately the cap snapped, and genius itself has lost ite driving career had been prepared by his the standard-bearer was out down force when deprived, as it to recall while on his way to South by the gallant young officer, and rarely is, of parenoplity, and it Africa to avenge the defeat of the standard taken possession of would be difficult to discover any Majuba, a piece of political folly by him. He also, on the same notable period in a nation's the effects of, which he was so day, cut down another sepoy who history which had no bersio scule splendidly to obliterate nineteen was standing at bay, with masket India for England, and was years later by the capture at and bayonet, keeping off a sowar. given a brilliant farewell, and During the past years, the Puerdeberg of Uronje's army. Lieutenant Roberts rode to the received an equally brilliant ra yours, in which we have HO With such a record of unbroken assistance of the borseman, and, ception at home. In June, 1893, definitely fastened upon our victory most men would have rushing at the sepoy, with one the University of Cambridge shoulders, the weightiest burden been content to enjoy the bonours blow of his sword cut him across conferred upon him its hon. of Empire that has bon linked they had won. But Lord Roberts the face, killing him on the spot." LL.D. degree. He was made a about the world, no name has viewed his work in aucther way.

Brilliant Trumphs.

K.0.0.8 I. in the preceding May, been 8 intimately acaociated He had only thought of himself

Throughout the Abyssinian Two years later he was appoint with those increased response the servant of his country, and campaign of 1808 he held the ed Commander of the Forces in sibilities as that of Earl Roberie ec long as there was a service rffice of Assistant-Quartermaster-Ireland and in 1899 went to South of Kandahar and Pretoria, and it required be was there to render Ganeral; he superintended the Africa as Commander-in-Chief, is impossible to think of any; so when the brief enthusiasm re-embarkation of the whole army, being responsible for the relief

more for manliness roused by the Boer and was selected by Sir Robert illustrious example to the pao le War declined, and he saw his Napier as the bearer of his final de- of Kimberley, in February, 1900, he has served. Twice he has countrymen lapsing once more epatches. He also acted as Assist-hen he took Commandant Cronje been called to their encosurinon fatal self-complacency, he ant Quartermaster General with and the Western Boer Army when fortune Roemed at it faced the last n d hardest fights the Oachar colutan in the Looshai prisoners. He received the thanks atmost ebb, once on our In lian his career, ai, savoring him- Expeditionary Force (1871-72). of both Houses of Parliament in frontier, whence out of a very self from the pretentions fatilities At the beginning of the Afghan 1902 and was created-Earl and Knight of the Gorter, receiving vortex of disasters he thrust of National Defence Committees, campaign he was appointed Com- also a medal with six clasps, and triumphantly to the heart of set himself, when seventy-three, mander of the Kuram Field Force, Afghanistan, and, after holding to teach England on what alone and subsequently he had the chief from 1901 to 1904 he was Com-

command of his own against overwhelming her security could depend.

the Army in odde, swept audaciously across One great quality reveals itself afghanistan, where he achieved the desolate waste of hills to above all others in the work of the most brilliant triumphs. After rescue a British forço near its these later years his temperance. Frederick Roberts re-occupied the masacre of our embassy, Sir Bouthern border; and once, at an Els once. taught temperance to Kabul at the close of 1879. Tc-The opinions expressed by the age when most men are glad to the soldier, vastly to the be done with fighting, he wiped soldier's benefit. He has no wards the end of July, 1880, a Correspondents are not necess- arily those of the "Hongkong sway the stain which had lain in shown how, oobly he can en force terrible defeat was inflicted by South Africa for nearly twenty its claims upon himself. Never the troops of Ayoob Khan, at Mai- years on our escutcheon, and won was a great canes urged with wand, on. General Burrows, the again the old respect for our Army greater restraint of language the remnant of whose force with in the eyes of the world.

difficulty joined General Prim- bever was an opponent's argu- Sixty-three years age he became mant more honestly considered. rose's garrison at Kandahar. An (To the Editor of the Hongkong

attack a soldier, and six years later be Not once bar an unfair point been

on that city seemed

Telegraph) was involved in that death atrag-made from the ignorance and imminent, but Ayoob hesitated,

Sir, The question of food. gle of our fortunes with the Tastupidity of his detractors; nor and lost his opportunity. Hesa- prices is undoubtedly one with dian mutineer in which for so has he ever assumed a temper in while, a bold resolution was which every resident of the long our power lay half etrangled the mere controversialist less taken at Kabul. Sir Frederick Colony is concerned at the present in a python clasp which would, creditable than his own. He has Roberts, gathering a force of over if it could, have crushed out the believed throughout in the good relief of Kandahar, allowing 9,000 picked mea, marched to the breath under the very riba of sense of his countrymen and in Empire. A few months later he the power of reason, patience and Abdurrahman Khan to ocenpy had received his first wound, but plain speaking to convince them. Kabul, and leaving to General that did not prevent his taking He never has tried, he never will Stewart the duty of leading back part in the storming of Jelhi and try, any other methods; and, the rest of the British troops by the fierce fighting through the much as he has spoken and the Khyber to the Punjab, streets of the city.

impressively as he can speak,

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FOOD PRICES IN HONGKONG,

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Youra ato.. MICHAEL ANGELO TITMARSH.

Flongkong, Nov. 16, 1914.

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AN APPRECIATION.

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connection "with the last list, dated October 30, 1914, which He was, during subsequent be nover. suggests "the Sir Frederick Roberts, out off appears to be inconsistent with be is just a plain from direct communication with the impartiality usually shown by operations, always in the thickest orater : of the fray, marching with the soldier telling the truth. Men his countrymen, disappeared, as the Authorities, when adopting Greathead to Cawnpore, and tak- may heer him or shut their ears, it were, from human ken for three any measure which affects the ing part in the actions at Beland be will go on telling them, not weeks, during which time the general public of the Colony. shahr, Aligarh Agra, Bither, and that there is profit or fame to be national anxiety was extreme. At refer to the comparison between Kanauj. He was at the relief of won by it but simply because, laat he emerged victorious from the prices of meat sold in the Lucknow in November and of under God, that seems to him to the trackless region between Kabul market and those of the same Cawnpore in December, and isodbo his business.

and Kandahar, Immediately he local meat (not frozen meat) sold in the parsuit and defeat of the Valour, kindness, simplicity, grappled with Ayoob Khan, and by the Dairy Farm The follow- Gwalior contingent.

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names onfailing courtesy, an unconquer-crushing defeat. On the retorn comparative prices in force after of little meaning to the little able resolution. Nor has it of Sir Frederick Roberts to Eng- the 30th, ulto..;-17 Englander-but in those despor-sufficed him to set an example to land he was loaded with honours; ate years England knew her the soldier only. For fifty-four be was presented with the free- heroes, and followed their spler-years, as a subaltern as surely as dom of the City of London, re- did achievements with a rever-when Commander-in-Chief, beceived the thanks of Parliament, ence and devotion incredible to a stood for that ideal soldierly and was created a baronet. In generation which seems to have virtue that basso long been February, 1881, he was appointed RampSteak... perlb, 22ote. 24ots. last all pride in its British blood. England's, of the man who fears to succeed Sir George Colley in Roast Beef At Khudaganj, in January 1858, God and fears nought else, who the commend of the troops in Matton, Chopa the young Artill, ryman won the knows no cause except his coan-Natal and the Transvaal, but Mation Leg.... Crose by an act of conspicuous try'e, and can nocept no respite, peace was concluded with the Sheep's head gallantry, cut ing down a couple save death'e, from serving her; to Boars before his arrival in the and Foot...poreet. 60 .70 of sepoya and eating the stand whom patience, just ce, humility colony. He was afterwards ap- Unless there is some good and ard from their hands; sad he was and gentleness are ad dear as pointed a member of the Council special reason for allowing the present at the actions which valour, and whose honour ever of Madras, and commanded the Dairy Farm Co, to charge higher followed in quick succession; at shines too clear to need defending. troops in that Presidency from prices than the renters of the the storming of Miangsu), the We knew all this of him. Yet 1881-5, and was Commander-in-Government stalle in the Central storming and capture of Lack when returned from arms to argu- Obief in India, in succession to Market, it seems to me that the now, and the fight at Kursi. ment, and trying to convince by Sir Donald Stewart. On the death Food Committee, in considering He had orammed into those conviction thos he had made of Sir H. Macpherson (October, and approving the list an crowded months as much fighting secure by the axord, he brought 1886), Sir 1. Roberts assumed the published, bas overlooked the as falls in bis whole life to the into public life a sincerity and command of the Burmese exped principles of equity and justice, average soldier, being seven times moderation which offered a conition. He had been twenty-three so characteristic of the Britishers mentioned in despatches. Yet ception of citizenship of value times mentioned in despatches be his osrear was but just begun, apart from the cause for which he fore the Afghan war, during which and the great services he was to pleaded.

campaign hog was eight times render his country were far before Ho has thus proved himself so thanked by the Viceroy and him in the future. Not that the loyal a citizen as he has been a Commander-in-Chief in India. intervening years were isle, for soldier, and a man with less than To the Nineteenth Century for (To the Editor of the Hongkong in 1883 he took part in the bis weight of years can plead per-November, 1882, he contributed

answer all modern requirements. Ambela campaign in 1867 he mission to take off bis harness so an article on the Present State of

Telegraph) was with Donald Stewart in long as in the van is such a leader the Army, thus supplying the

Bir,Now B. I. M. S. Emden The establishment can be ren- Abyssinia, being three times men who can make light of every die sequel to an interesting speech Eastern seas and is now hors de the conversion of a plot of

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