LORD ROBERTS' PROPHECY
FORETOLD THE GREAT WAR I.C'NDON, Jan. 21. A remarkable prophecy by the late Lord Roberts is revealed by the Morning Post, which says: "It is a matter of history that he warned his countrymen to prepare for a frightful war in Europe, but it is not so well-known that, in a speech in Quebec six years before the war lie predicted that defeat would he near but that the war would finally he won by the genius of a French General and he named Ferdinand Foch, Prolessor at the. Paris .Military School.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17472, 22 January 1931, Page 7
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95LORD ROBERTS' PROPHECY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17472, 22 January 1931, Page 7
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