BULLER AGAIN.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 277, 2 December 1901, Page 2

BULLER AGAIN.

HYDE PARK DEMON STATION. STEON G ALL EG AT lON S. THE MESSAGE TO LADYSMITH. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London. Nov. 3U.

A draft resolution to be submitted to a pro-Builer demonstration in Hyde Park to-morrow declares that Butler’s speech on October 10 was used as a mere excuse fur his dismissal, which was really due to his refusal to alter tm? bpionkop dispatches. The Standard, contradicting the statements, warns Buller that unless he restrains his injudicious backers, the Government will be compelled to break their magnanimous silence, and broadly hints that when Sir George White declined to treat for the surrender of Ladysmith, ami heliographed to ask if the instructions to surrender were authentic, they were deliberately repeated, but disobeyed, it adds that if tiie evidence supported the charge a profound revulsion of feeling would be created. The Standard says that the only extenuating hypothesis is that the shock oi two defeats had destroyed a brave man’s nerves and paralysed his judgment.

The Devonian Society of London entertained Sir Eedvers Duller, lie said that discipline compelled reticence; otherwise he would gladly tell everything. He dwelt on the hardships the troops were enduring. The Devonshire Regiment had marched 997 miles in 143 days, constantly fighting.