DID NOT THREATEN TO RESIGN.
LORD ROBERTS' DISCLAIMER.
LONDON, May 28. Replying, by request, to a message from the Melbourne Naval and Military Club, with respect to the report that ho would resign his ficld-marshalship if troops \yc-r<£ jbotnpellod to serve against Ulstcj*, Lord' Roberts says: — "I never wrote tho alkiged letter to the' King, and never thought of taking so foolish and so unsoldierliko a step. As to offer to return tho honors bestowed upon me, with my field-marshal's baton if the army occupied Ulster, there' is no truth m the story told m London upon which this account is founded."
The story which was cabled regarding Lord Roberts' alleged threat to resigii his commission, but which the veteran soldier himself has now so emphatically contradicted, -was 'to the effect that "lie had written to the King saying that, much as he prized tho many honors and '-orders that had been bestowed upon him by his Sovereign, he would bo compelled, if the f army occupied Ulster, to return them to, the King, together .with his field-marshal's 1 . baton.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13393, 29 May 1914, Page 6
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180DID NOT THREATEN TO RESIGN. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13393, 29 May 1914, Page 6
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