A HEROIC PEER
Quieilv and modestly Viscount Standhurst, the Lord ChaniberlaijL tol'd in the King's Bench Division of an incident which stamps his name indelibly on the roll of Empire heroes. He was called as a witness in an Indian libel action, and he said that he was Governor of Bombay during the outbreak of plague at Poo.na. He visited the hospitals personally, he said, and inspected them, and had stood beside the bedsides of hundreds of plague patients. * What he thought was gocd enough for young medical officers was good enough for himself. .Lord Sandhurst added that lie'" had a famine on" at the same time. Lord Sandhurst declined to agree that the natives preferred the plague to the house visitation. The Judge: Did not the late Lord Derby write- something like that about rfierry? He was recommended a , particular sherry as a specific for the gout. He tried the s-herxy, and said he would rather have the gout," (Laughter.)
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Evening Star, Issue 17032, 1 May 1919, Page 2
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161A HEROIC PEER Evening Star, Issue 17032, 1 May 1919, Page 2
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