LATE EARL ROBERTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15770, 19 November 1914, Page 8

LATE EARL ROBERTS.

m BURIAL AT ST. PAUL'S. HISTORIC GUN-CARRIAGE. COLENSO RECALLED. By Telegraph— Association— London, November 17. Countess Roberts has consented to her husband's burial at St. Paul's Cathedral. The coffin containing the bodv of the dead soldier arrived at Folkestone, and was thence taken to Ascot. The burial service will be read at St. Paul's at noon on Thursday, and the public will later be allowed to pass the coffin, which will be placed on the chancel steps.

The gun-carriage used belongs to the gun which his son, Lieutenant Roberts, sought to save at Colenso.

THE NATIONAL MONUMENT

ADDRESS TO KING.

(Received November IS. 930 ji.ra !

London. November 17.

In moving an address to the King in regard to the proposed national monument to the late Earl Roberts Mr. Asquith, in the House of Commons, and Earl Kitchener, in the House of Lords, paid glowing tributes to Earl Roberts's genius as a soldier and his character as a roan. The Opposition leaders supported the address.

NESTOR OF THE ARMY.

HIS UNERRING EYE.

Times and Sydney Sun Services,

London, November 17.

The Times' military correspondent describes Lord Roberts as the Nestor of the British Army, and says he possessed a truly marvellous and unerring eye for troops and their disposition. He had a talent for recognising at a glance every tactical advantage, his sagacity enabling him to perceive immediately the mistakes of the enemy. He practised successfully the enveloping attack subsequently adopted by Germany, and, consequently, the Germans claimed him as one of their own school.