During the past few days the King has received Count: Waldersee in audience at Homburg, and has invested him with the military Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, in recognition of his appreciation of the Field-Marshal's work in China.
When the Kaiser was here in January attending his grandmother's funeral, be decorated with the order of the Black Eagle our foremost General, Field-Marshal Lord Roberts, who had then but lately returned from South Africa. Thus, in a measure, does history repeat itself.
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