| Show I C GEN GEM EN BULLERS ru LlERS LLER I RETIREMENT ENT Petticoat Petti oat Influence Had Much to toDo topo Do po With It I t LADY ROBERTS r n ats HIS ms IS ENEMY c Only to When wiki lei iu b Mud Mild nd Mr Ir to New York Oct 01 de do details tails tais concerning the enforced retirement of or Sir Redvers Bullet Buller Buler are aro given In u I i glen dispatch tram from London to the Herald Ueral It I Is la an nn open secret that what Is known as petticoat has h ha been far tar too strong trong at tw ue u war office ottlee over ever since the Duke of ot ge regi resigned d anu anti the Ire present pru ent has hal hi not escaped It f There ore e many may people le who are Arc In dined to t d the speech Seh of ot H If 1 C Richards the night eight before LeMe last at Northampton tho ho declared that If Lord Roberts would rOuld nave leave barar bazar open lags Ings to Lady Roberts R and take the malt tah taI selections and War nar ottice reforms tnt Inn InthIs his own hands Lere ere might be great re to reform roo turin form at itt the tho war ws olce It I is II doubtful If tf King Kin Edward will willever wi willever ever have hate hac to 10 lice a Inure mure painful di dt dilemma dilemma lemma than the one he lie le encountered when Mr Dr k and an Lord ll had an ce with a him him at lari borough house houle saId sala a member of the kings household When hn lion the thel news newl reached Balmoral house of ot Oen ion Boilers Westminster speech IB in II the h sue BUS IUS Judgment Jude t until was waa wal apparent how the tie Via king It 1 lver liver since Gen Oe departure from toni Waterloo fur for the war or when the king then Prince ot of itu tl cue to popular opinion of the th formel with his parting Good Old Duller Bailer Uler he be has ba thus been leen spoken of or Even since II nee his return to 10 England It II was UI known that tt the tb king had not changed his opinion of his hi former lion km on camarade Thi Thu da day after the Wet Ves minster bluster speech It became beame bruited among the household hou hat the tie king still stihi stI heru hell his hi faith In the blur general and re regarded reo regarded his oratorical a as al mere meN merely meNU ly U a 1 military explosion in 10 the face tlC ui or bitter biter goading So Ho It became an ao accepted conclusion that no matter mater what nhat the papers might say Bay the would stand by b his hil former friend frend even enn to Lo the extent of ot conferring a peerage as I a mark maik of per personal pr sonai lonal friendship Some leakages ol ci this their way tray to tire the th pub lie llo 10 were transmitted to the war office n nIt It I Is i ld ever nineteen n Gen Bullet Buller Duler refused to correct COITt hit his hl die dis dispatches patches he hC hat hal been Len subjected to tire bitter biter hostility of Lady Roberts Robert Robrt who used every often effort to force fore her husband to demand hi his recall Within the last hit 1 few tew days daTs her anti antipathy antipathy pathy has haa fourd fresh fruh vent enl owing to his hia Westminster speech apt h U It I Is ts said she Induced Bobs Dabs to lu go to the war ar of ot office fice and ane demand of Mr Brodrick that he Issue Isue an order for tor Gen den Duller Bullets tee res resignation re ignation ore Such an order was wu hued bu but Old Bullet Buller Dller replied wIth Hh a I flat fiat lat refusal to re resign ro resign sign sig Then Lord Huberts bert and Mr Ir put their heads beads together anti and al waited wal d for tor the tenant instant of the tIre kings re ro return return turn to London Lond to Uy laT before his ma majesty majesty jesty the of ot Bullet Bulleri sal tal or their relation It I was a by no means a n pleasant Inter Interview intervIew view Ie At first the king kin refused refund refu c point pointblank pint pointblank blank to countenance any an such luch proceeding lit lie lt defended Bullet Buller Buler right and left lef and declared decided puch Fuch Uch o e I prove cation caton a a as attacks attack was 6 lum sufficient cleat elent warrant for tor or such an explosion on the part of ot the bluff blut old soldier bu but Lord Roberts te and Ind Mr were cra equally stubborn stubbo Lord Roberts threatened threaten to resign In Instanter unless a R royal wal fora mandate were ue uel Issued l sued for tor Butlers decapitation To this Mr olin alto added adde his Intention to relinquish the seals scab of the Ihs war nr office otC The Tho latter later threat have he not nt weighed for tor n a trl moment with wih th the king kin but Bobs Dab popularity Is I a different matter mater His Ils majesty used u every ery effort to 1 Induce the to 10 re cc rt consider his Only when ho he bp finally discovered that thet this thin wa wu vas out nut of ot the question was ws th the roal consent en reluctantly g n WI to 10 the order for Gen lien RUller gl l |
