23 JULY 1932, Page 3

A Soldier Statesman If to one generation Field-Marshal Lord Plumer

is Plumer of Messines to another he Will always be Plumer of Mafeking. There was nothing in the Great War like the sieges 'of Ladysmith and Mafeking, and no parallel to the strain of waiting for news of Butler's advance or Plumer's. Colonel Plumer gave the English language a new word, for it was his relief of Baden- Powell, most fitly a pall-bearer at his funeral, that set London Mafficking that unforgettable night. As a civil administrator in Malta and Palestine Lord Plumer served his country as conscientiously and ably as he had through his long military career. An appreciation of his work in that sphere appears on a later page.

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