The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-11-20
LORD ROBERTS DIES
WHILE At FRONT
Famous English Soldier Sue
cumbs to Pneumonia.
GEN. FRENCH WIRES NEWS
Field Marshal Was in France to Visit
His Indian Forces on Battle Line
Warned Nation of War
With Germany.

London, Nov 16.-Field Marshal
Earl Roberts is dead in France rom
pneumonia.
A telegram from Field Marshal Sir
John French, commander of the Brit
ish expeditionary forces on the CONT
nent, appraised Earl Kitchener, secre-
tary of state for war, of the death OF
England's great soldier. The telegram
read:
Il deeply regret to tell you that Lord
Roberts died at eight o'clock in the
evening"
The place where Britain's aged hero
died is not known definitely. 1t is sup
posed to have been somewhere along
the Belgian-French frontier, where the
British have been fighting for weeks.
Left to Visit Indian Troops.
Field Marshal Roberts, who was
colonel-in-chief of the Indian troops,
had gone to France to give them his
greeting Soon after his arrival he
became seriously ill. He suffered from
a severe chill on Thursday and pneu-
monia rapidly developed. His great
ago - eighty-two years = initiated
against his recovery, the crisis in the
disease coming quickly.
He was the most popular military
figure In Great Britain and a national
hero without rival in the affection or
the people.
During the last five or six years,
| IL. ~ 81 l,od
growing, Lord Roberts prosecuted an
active campaign to persuade the ma
ton to adopt a compulsory military
service. In his last speech to parlia-
ment he warned the nation of the dan
ger Of war with Germany.
Breast a Blaze Of Medals.
The brilliant record of achievement
of Lord Roberts, England's greatest
and most popular soldier, was written
emblematically in the medals and hon
ors which he wore in perfect blaze
on fis breast when he attended the
royal levees at ST. James palace.
Frederick Sleigh Roberts was born
September 80, 1882, at Cawnpore, In
dia while his father, Gen. Sir Abra
ham Roberts, was conducting one o.
the Indian campaigns. His fathel
owned an estate in Waterford, Ireland
and his mother came from Tipperary
He was very young when sent to Eng
land to be educated. There he was
graduated from Elton, Sandhurst ant
Addiscombe.
1t was In Delhi that his career o
glory began. perilous though it was
and often all but cut short by the bul
! lets, shells and sabers of the Sepoys
, ''herever the fighting was hotte1
3 young Roberts was pretty sure to b.
q in great evidence Wounds he recoy
r cred from and fevers he defied.
. Married a Captains Daughter.
( He became a lover, and he courte
d as he fought-resolutely, determined
ly, with no thought of defeat. On Ma
II $50, he married her-Kora Henri
y eta Bews, the daughter of captain
She gave him two daughters and on
son. The latter was killed in the Boe
war
Two years ago he retired to privat
life, but when the European conf1ic
began his war spirit was reawakene
and he fastened to the side Of hi
u huge friend, Lord Kitchener
q Lord Roberts died possessed of NOR
than $1,000,000, thanks to his trust
Il his friend, j. J. Hill, the America
- railroad wizard "Bobs," with no d
/ sire for riches for himself, for h
> would rather live in an army post tina
d in palace, but with thought for h
IA children and their children, placed h
III entire fortune-s250. 000-in Mr. Hill
. hands and told the latter to do h
~ best with it. That was just prior
0' the BOer war.