The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 10, 1900, Page 1

: rtment 300k” for f cace du- port- cruel a “fighting he drudgery of & w lar compound ke and a er, and could or to field - s . e latte ty again oc- curred ¥ « er, as Dizzy with the artil- e elephants of the mountains of Rasselas in Theodore that ) Donald Stewart, after- champlon in Afghanistan, war who commanded a brigade of this expe- Littlewood. WHEREVER. BLOWS WERE kIEE- LiruTENANT ROBERTS WAS TO BE FOUMD " “PUTTIRNG HIS LANCE TH UGH THREE OR FOUR RINGS AT ] ONCE ditionary army, wanted a quartermaster general, and whe could better fill this post than Major Roberts! His servi landing place on the Red Sea wer land. But wheth rear, Rob the bell of and at sent to London with th contained an arde merits. It had fretted the heart of the ardent patches which gy of his own Roberts that he had not been able to go to the in A nia and share in any fighting that be: but now he had not long to wait for one of those “little wars” which are to Indian sald what the grand a n maneuvers are to con- tinental armies. Having organized, he was appointed senior staff officer of the time that expedition w France a fall, gate the turl southeastern ec pire toward Burmah pure and simple, wo and we find him * against a and dang Tatkoom, whick any were stripping for to chastise and subju- hai tribes on the e Indian Eme taff service, nt Loc mainly d@ ing column —the frst t tion. un- tiring en the commanding & all praise. He worked without guides, evem without map or geography, and thwarted the Looshais, whose game was to delay our progress. He never med at & loss.” When he was mtde Q. M. G. in Indla, and on h most. of the respons f the camps the procls nd, he was no Queen useful an r ing than in the ‘where this was ibald Forbes, spondent the air of quiet comman discerns in men who have vice when as yet th high leadership. His face cetic in its attenua indented and narrow that r b lower section oi and sallow, ending in a and contour of which be resolution.” So much for Forbes. One L orderly, says: “’'E's a little ma as little a wan not more than 5 1 say—but ‘e can ride! 'Ow Any ‘orse that ever was borm! 'E can ride ‘orses that I couldn’t think of ridin’, and my legs is twice as long as 'is. And ‘e can ‘andle any sword, no matter 'Ow ‘eavy. 1 saw 'im do it. ‘“*E's quiet, is Roberts, and ‘e doesn’t stomp about and curse as some of ‘em Continued on Page Three