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LORD ROBERTS'S
WARNING.
No Time for Games.
LONDON, Aueust 20.
Earl Roberts, addressing the new batta
lion of Fusiliers 1,300 strong drawn from
City men and raised in one week, said:—
'I am proud of this fine earns. Vnu nr«
the pick of the nation. You are highly
iducated business and professional men, and
ire doing what all able-bodied men of
whatever- rank should do in coming to the
belp of your country at this time. How
ilifferent is your action from that of men
n-ho continue to play cricket, and football
is if the very existence of the country was
tot at stake. This is not the time id play
?ames, for we are engaged in a life and
ieath struggle for the existence of the
Empire.'
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