BULLER AND 'GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 24 January 1901, Page 4

BULLER AND 'GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

We extract the following from a * Daily® News ’ interview with Mr H. M. S. Pearce,! Ihe w< I'-known war correspondent of thatß | cam :—" General Buller and Mr Pearceß Sing tiftimo in the same boat. Each even-ij Queen ” and played “ God save the g every Britorl dinner on deck. Of course,® bead covering, 'd up and removed hisg however, remainc-aumbor of Hollanders,! I The Britons (says tfftted and covered.! I very angry, and it was iferviewer) were| I trouble might follow. The dl that serious! I privately consulted General Bth ua captainl |he said, ‘ I wish you would tell iu ’| S you would do under the at | | if you were commander of this shfj?>| I 1 Me ? ’ replied Buller, ‘ I should asS | the band not to play “ God save the I Queen. ” This is the shrewd, humorous | common sense which Lord Rosebery said i the other day was Abraham Lincoln’s | chief asset. Apropos, Mr Pearse went E on to give a rapid character sketch of one | of the men of the hour, paying a handI some tribute to his tenacious courage, | which inspired such devotion and admirI ition in the men. What is the secret of I this devotion ? Buller never asks a man

to go where he will not lead the way. He is a hard hitter, he is tough, and indifferent to punishment, though blows fall fast, but he is no brainless, ruthless man of blood. He maybe slow, but he is sure. When his men were beaten off in some attack he would smile, and say; “Ah, they’ll put it down to slow old Buller.” That is all. Ho is a shy man, and hates to talk about himself.’’