Arizona republican., 1914-11-15
Worlds Most Famous Sol dier Succumbs to Pneu- monia While on Visit to Greet Britain's Colonial Troops.
WHOLE EMPIRE IS
 DEEP IN MOURNING
Most Popular Idol That Ever Served King and
 Country Answers Sol dier's Last Call on the Firing Line With His Boys
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LONDON, Nov. 1.-The death of
 Field Marshal Roberts has been of
 ficially announced Lord Roberta ing the Indian troops. Death was due to pneumonia. The news of his death was received by telegraph from Field Marshal Sir John French, which announced he died at eight o'clock in the evening.
 Field Marshal Roberts, who was commander 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 pneumonia rapidly de- veloped His great age, S2 years, initiated against his recovery, the crisis coming quickly.
 The news of the death of Lord Roberts came as an entire surprise to the English. The veterans de- votion to the interests of the army, his hard work in this connection, and his seeming good health have been the subject of comment since the be- ginning of the war. He was the most popular military figure in Great Britain and a national hero without rival in the affections of the people Despite his years, he never ceased hard work since his nominal retirement and as he had often re-
 marked, he lived rigidly an abstemi- ous life that he might preserve his l.+r fn, of h try.
 During the past five or six years, when the German war cloud had been growing, he prosecuted an ac- tive campaign to persuade the na- tion to adopt compulsory military service. His belief was that Great
 Britain required the training of the whole male population rather on the
 plan of Switzerland, than the longer terms of conscription enforced in the case of the continental military nations.
 Earl Roberts of Kandahar, Pre- toria and Waterford V. C., K. G. G., lC. B." or as Field Marshal Lord
 Frederic Sleigh Roberts, as he was known, sums up briefly the career
 of a noted soldier whose death has plunged the whole British empire into mourning.
 A scion of a noble Irish family, Lord Roberts was born in 1882 in Cawnpore, India, where his father, General Sir Abraham Roberts, was then serving. It was in the Indian service that the gallant and efficient Irish soldier achieved his first and lasting fame. In South Africa in and magnified by his achievements | in Great Britains victorious cam paign against the Boers.
 But if it was as field marshal and an earl that Lord Roberts was | formally known, it was as "Bobs' l tfat the men of the rank best knew him. loved him and greeted him. In their estimation and in that of the admiring public, which appreciated and applauded his gallanet services for his country, no name could fit him better than "Bobs,' the diminu- tive of his family name, and word meaning hero" in Hindu.
 Showered as he was with honors and titles by his own country, it was not by that nation alone that his military abilities were appreciated.
 "The greatest soldier of his time' were the words used by Emperor William of Germany in paying trl- bute to him.
 Earl Roberts of Kandahar," the emperor is recorded as saying, "has too much subtlety and ability. to per ceive the opportunities that have dis tinguished the greatest military geniuses of the past. I hold him the ablest of today's soldiers" For more than half century Eng
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