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Show LORD ROBERTS TO RECEIO0N0RS London Nov. 17, 7:10 p. m Lord Kitchener, Lord Curzon of Kedleston and the oarl of Crewe in the house of lords today paid tribute to Lord Roberts. Rob-erts. ' His achievements as a soldier and his character as a man,'' said Lord Kitchener, "will be an abiding mem : pry, not only in parliament, but iui tliH whole nation. His fame will for-1 ver be associated with the memor able march to Kandahar " Lord Roberts' body arrived at Folkestone this evening from Boulogne. Bou-logne. It will be taken to his late' residence, Englemere, In Ascot, ar-! riving there tomorrow The body will) 1 lie in state until Thursday, when it! will be taken to the railway station i on the gun eariage his son died try-' ing to save at Conselno during the ! South African war. A special train will then bring the casket to London. Troops will escort it to St Paul's. The vault in St Paul'B in which the field marshal will he is the mausoleum of Great Brl-I tain's greatest soldiers. The last sol j dier interred there was Field Marshal Lord Wolseley, at whose funeral, last March, Lord Roberts was a pall-ben pall-ben ror. Premier Aequltb, in moving a resolution reso-lution in the house of commons to- day regarding a monument for Lord i Roberts, said the field marshal's death had robbed England of its oldest old-est and most illustrious soldier, a man who had fought his way upward Step by step unaided by any influence influ-ence except his own skill. Andrew Bonar Law. leader of the opposition in the house of commons, seconded thn resolution for the erection erec-tion of the monument and the measure meas-ure was carried unanimously. The London official press bureau gives a touching account of the funeral fu-neral services for Field Marshal Lord Roberts at the headquarters of the British arm iyn France. The route of the cortege from the nouse where he died to the Mairlo, where the funeral service was held " says the press bureau's statement, "was lined with British and French trvops The coffin was borne on a gun cartage It was an Impressive ce remony. The guard of honor were Indian and British troops. "To the wail of 'Flowers o' the Forest,' For-est,' from the pipers, the cortege moved slowly through double ranks of. soldiers with arms reversed. General Gen-eral officers acted as pall bearers. Those following the casket included representative of the family of Lord Roberts and of King Albert and President Pres-ident Poincare; the prince of Wales, Prince Arthur of Connaught and General French. "The simple funeral service was conducted b Chaplain Anderson of the British forces. At the close of the service the British bugles rang out with 'The Last Post.' As the coffin was removed to a motor ambulance am-bulance for conveyance to Boulogne, French trumpeters across the square blew a fanfare and the guns of Lord Roberts' old regiment roared out a last farewell. A double rainbow gleamed on a mass of dark clouds and an aercplane circling above, one lot tin.' aerial guards watching and " I protecting the procession, dipped In salute." having depended largely on Franc? for her small arms as well as for her artillery'- But today practically noth-Ing noth-Ing is being received from France and the supplies in Russia became so short that some muzzle loading muskets mus-kets as well as cannon of this sam type have been used in the Polish campaign. The taking over of these factories, it is expected soon wiil remedy the existing deficiency. |
