Replying, by request, to a message from tha Melbourne Naval- and Military Club, with respect to the report that ha would resign bis field-mar-shalship if troopH were compelled to serve against Ulster, Lord Roberts says:—"l never wrote the alleged letter to the King, and never thought of taking so foolish and eo unsoldierlike a step. Aa to offer to return the honours bestowed upon me, with my field-marshal's baton if the army occupied Ulster, there is no truth in the story told in London upon which thiß account is founded,"
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 672, 27 May 1914, Page 5
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90Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 672, 27 May 1914, Page 5
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