SIR REDVERS BULLER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 28, 2 December 1901, Page 3

SIR REDVERS BULLER.

MORE >BODT HIS FAMOUS BPEKOH. A SEWBPAPER WARNING TO THE GBN--1 HAL'S ADMIRKBB. ns PBBSS ASSOCIATION, Received 1, 4.55 p.m. London, November 30. The draft «f a isolation to be submit* :d to a pro-Buller demonstration at Hy : e Park t -morrow declares that General Buller'd speech of October 10th last was used merely as an excuse for bringing a! «ut bis dismissal, which was really due, it is declared, to his refusal to alter the Spion Kop de spatchts.

The Standard rontn>dic*s this statement, and warns General Buller that unless he rea'rains the injudicious actiom of kis supporters, the Government will be compelled to break its magnanimous silence. The paper broadly hints that when Sir George White declined t> treat- for the surrender of Ladysmith, and beliographed an inquiry if the instructions were authentic, they were deliberately repeated, bat he disobeyed then. It further adds that if the evidence supported these charges a profound revulsion of feeliog would be created. The Standard says that the u ly extenuating hypothesis is that the shock of two defeats de«: jyed a brave man's nerves and paralysed his judgment.

ENTERTAINED BY THE DEVONIAN 800IETY.

Received 2,1.8 a.m. London, December 1. Sir Reivers Buller wan entertained by the Devonian Society in London. In tbe ciwse of a sp-eeh, he sud that dicipline compelled reticence, otherwise ne would gladly tell everything. He dwelt or the hardships the troops had suSered in South Af'ici. The Devonshire regiment had marched 997 miles in 143 days, and were coostantly engaged in fighting the enemy during that time.