(Press Association.) THE ATTACK ON KITCHENER

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 124, 27 May 1915, Page 7

(Press Association.) THE ATTACK ON KITCHENER

DAILY MAIL'S GRIEVANCES PERTH, 26th May. The Daily News publishes a cable received from a private source giving the substance of the attack on Lord Kitchener by the London Daily Mail, which provoked such widespread indignation in Britain. After blaming the Cabinet firstly and Lord Kitchener secondly for not adopting compulsory service, the Daily Mail proceeds :— "We and the public have never liked I/ord Kitchener's use of his own name instead of the King's in connection with these volunteer armies which have been raised. The public, too, have disliked some of the advertising methods which have been adopted in order to gain recruits. We ourselves know Lord Kitchener starved the army in France of high explosive shell, and the accepted fact is that he ordered the wrong kind of shell. The kind he ordered was the same as was used against the Boers. He persisted in sending shrapnel, which is useless for trench warfare, although warned repeatedly that the sort of shell required was a violent explosive bomb which would dynamite its way through trenches and entanglements. "The class of shell Lord Kitchener persisted in sending hag caused the deaths of thousands of our poor soldiers. The new advertisement urging the enlistment of men of forty in our volunteer armies we regret having printed, and must decline to print it again. Men of forty should not be used in this war until the recruiting powers of the country have been exhausted. "The record of Lord Kitchener in Africa as a fighting general was not brilliant, and his life in India and Egypt has made him unacquainted with British conditions."