LORD KITCHENER.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 950, 18 October 1910, Page 5

LORD KITCHENER.

:',...__ _:■■ '.'.!' NEW POSITION OFFERED HIM. By Telegraph—Press Association—Oopyrisht. .'■'■■'■; London, October 16. -King George- approving/ : the 'Prime Minister (the Right Hon. H. Asouith) has. requested Field-Marshal Lord Kitchener to join the Council of Imperial Defence, • Lord Kitchener has been without any offioial position, since he returned from his mission'to Australia and New Zealand. He had previously accepted, at King ■ Edward's personal. request, it ; was rumoured, the position of High Commissioner 'of the but he asked to be relieved of the position in June .last, soon .alter his'arrival back in.England. To this command in the Mediterranean, which the Dulce of Conhaught resigned because it was a sineoure, 'was attached a seat, in the Imperial Defence Committee. No man, writes' "Miles" in the."Daily Mail," could have occupied that seat with greater advantage to the Empire: . .'Yet because Lord Kitchener refused a command which had already been rejected, as 0. useless expense,. the Empire has been deprived of his services !on the Imperial Defence Committee. It; i 3 no defence to plead that the seat U-, Whitehall Gardons was an appanage 01 the palace in Malta. There is on the Imperial Defence Committee at least, one distinguished person .who holds no office, civile or. military, , under < :the . Crown, though he has been dose'ribed as a perpetual Minister without portfolio Und outside the pale■■ of -the . Constitution; 1 To have retained Lord' Kitchener on the Committee would have involved no breach of the Constitution. : - . ; , -....