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Show "LITTLE BOBS," IDOL OF ENGLAND ji : 1 Since the days of Nelson there nas been no hero n England who has taken a stronger hold upon the popular pop-ular fancy than the little man whose official title on the rolls of the British Brit-ish army is the Right Hon. Frederick, Baron Roberts of Kandahar and 'vVat-erford. 'vVat-erford. But that is not the way that clerks and cab drivers, farmers and shopkeepers all over England know him. To them 'he is simply "Bobs." the finest little fighting man in the service. For Lord Roberts, in addition to being a superb tactician and a military mili-tary genius, is intensely human. He lias a real, live, flesh and blood inter-st inter-st in the men who fight for him. Thev are something more to him' than cannon fodder, and the "Tommies" Know it, and the folks back in Eng-and Eng-and know it, too. Returning to Eng-and Eng-and once with a detachment of troops, Roberts amazed the newspaper report-.... report-.... ,orlriniT from a third-class - : '!! rP:i' ; 4 j -,waV -iage He surrounded he 3e mSidrd- annoyance when the matter was made much of. Murine the Sepov rebellion. He had gone Lord Roberts won his spurs US t"e ; p h daTSi when a com. out to India as a lieutenant a 'n S' exile from England mission in her majesty's Ind'atnp ah"d India the mutiny began, at the very least. A ye K.b Jd with Nicholson, took a dis- His was a baptism of Are "dbfcod. he ser e rAK ' h,ch can ct to a eo,dier- von the Victoria v. . eentence once: |