TROOPS IN ULSTER LORD ROBERTS'S EXTREME STEP
'will resign honours and orders THE KING AND HIS MINISTERS :C, .COUNSELS MODERATION, (Bj Telegraph.— Press iCssoclat lon.— Copyright.) (TIMES AND SYDNEY SliN SERVICES.) LONDON, 28th March. • Lord Roberts took the most extreme steps' to mark his objections to the tt^Qfls being compelled to serve against 'Uite.r, ,1 When he' learnt of the Ministry's plani -he wrote a letter to the King saying' that, greatly as he prized tho honours and orders bestowed on him by ( ■ his Sovereign, he would be compelled, if the Army occupied Ulster, to I'j^ijfji them to the King together with hjfj field-marshal's baton. •■> -(Received March 30, 8.30 a.m.) ' ; : ; ' LONDON, 29th March. ♦ The Sunday Times (Independent) states *tlaai> -after the King had conferred with Lord ■ Roberts, the latter acting on the •l£itig;s 'request laid his views of the VAlfiiy difficulty hefore Colonel Seely and Sir! -John French. .The King, while maintaining a strict- ' 4.v! attitude, made it clear to *Ki's Ministers that with him lay the 4inai appeal. He counselled moderation .jWitnout resort to desperate measures. /Fhe King took counsel of the moderates #>f jtoih parties.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 75, 30 March 1914, Page 8
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187TROOPS IN ULSTER LORD ROBERTS'S EXTREME STEP Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 75, 30 March 1914, Page 8
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