Show r LORD RD KITCHENER HITCHENER S Shortly after Lord Kitchener was sent to d. India a Lord Roberts speaking of reforming the war office s said id It will take a Hercules to clean ou out t Augen stable and then added added But they ther sent lave sent Hercules to the Himalayas I We suspect sus- sus pe pet t that Lord Roberts was vas entirely sincere in for lor when in the Boer war Lord Kitchener reached South Africa L Lord rd Roberts was p pretty etty ne nearly rl licked It was Kitche Kitchener's ers er's ability f for r organisation or or- ni and his llis bulldog tenacity that finally brought that arm army up to efficiency and at the same time kept the long communications open open- and the B Boers ers were undone Now Lord Kitchener succeeds th the kings king's i brother the duke of Connaught in in the of ot the Mediterranean which hi h means everything from Gibraltar ar via ia Malta lalta to Bg Egypt When the department wa was organized it was given out that it was next in importance to India so 80 tho the placing of Kitchener in command there causes canses an immense curiosity to know what it means Looking Looking Looking Look Look- ing from this distance it does docs not seem scent hard to to understand un un England has a n great fear of a clash with wittI Germany when hen the k kaiser iser gets his is fleet ready and the belief is that he he means to dominate all Europe Where would the fleet look for a rendezvous rendezvous 1 V Would it not be in the Mediterranean an and and andin andin in case there was an open rupture with Great Britain Britain Brit Brit- am ain where would be the immedi immediate te danger point if not to break the communications with Bg Egypt pt all an l lIndia lIndia India 1 When Napoleon was tumbling the thrones of Europe and had every land save saye Russia in subi subjection c tion Lord Nelson had every port o of the continent blockaded and and should the time come when the li kaiser determines to assume that same role we suspect Kitchener would he be on the lookout on oti onland onland land and sea and he is a sure enough soldier and possibly the best organizer in the old world Then things do not look good in India and Kitchener in Egypt would bo be in in- ina a place to togo go at once to her aid should trouble come He is the most conspicuous military figure of the old world today |