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2. Do you make it clear
that "Rolly" left the Guards
& when?

3. Page 199. War Office
paragraph "Primeval chaos"
1902. You have no doubt
some strong ground for saying
this from Minto's records,
but I wonder on what his
opinion rested. At that
moment every department
was running full speed.
Medical reorganization - barracks
rebuilding - Stores for Mobilization
- above all Intelligence under
Sir Wm. Nicholson. Was he misled
by the chatter of on the dislocation
caused by the return of over
200,000 men from S. Africa?

Yours very truly

Midleton