FABRICATED EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13757, 21 September 1908, Page 5

FABRICATED EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS.

WHAT THE GENERAL REALLY

WROTE.

(Received Sept. 21, 8.25 a.m.)

LONDON, Sept. 20. Colonel Warde, giving evidence at the inquest, bitterly complained that General Luard's alleged letter (previously cabled) was* a fabrication of the press. The actual letter, he said, did not mention deceased's son. It ended : ■ "I thought I had strength enough to bear up against the horrible imputations of the* terrible letters, but I am now satisfied that it is best to join her in the second life at once."

[Major-General Charles E. Luard, of Igntham Knoll, Sevenoaks, Kent, who entered the army in 1857, has done very valuable service in the cause of Empire. He was executive officer in London during the Fenian disturbances, accompanied the Moroccan mission in 1868, devised the scheme for the re-armament of Gibralter, and served in Natal and Zululand. He recently founded the Society of Mi nature Rifle Clubs and the Patriotic Society.]