London, June 27.
Field-Marshal Lord Roberts has written a letter to The Times" in reply to that of th" novelist Mr. A. E. W. Mason in which the latter ed that the chief reason why Bi George White remained in Ladysmith was because ho was warned by @ high authority that retirement would probably be the signal for an uprising of the blacks in Natal. Lord Roberts says that Mr. Mason is unwittingly doing an injustice to the military reputation of distinguished soldier and that h can hardly believe that Sir Geo White deliberately subordinated his military judgement ty the fear of a problematical native rising.
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