Show lor I 1 bobberts gets halt a bullion in the house 0 commons wednesday proposing a resolution gi an ting field marsh ill lord roberts for h s services in south africa A J balfour the government leader in the course of a eulogy of the field marsi all sa d there is no doubt but that for lord roberts dann gand sti and the rapidity with wh ch h s plans were carried out kimberley and mafeking Mafe king would have fallen 11 british would have been starved i ito sion at ladysmith Lady smith and there conid have been a general ns ng of d cloyal ests in south africa the country was saved from this by the genius of the he no v invites the house to re ward by a unan mo is vote ir respect ive of political differences the resolution was adopted by a vote of 81 to 73 |