Greymouth Evening Star. AND BRUNNERTON ADVOCATE. WEDNESDAY, 22nd FEB., 1911. THE KITCHENER WAY.

Greymouth Evening Star, 22 February 1911, Page 4

Greymouth Evening Star. AND BRUNNERTON ADVOCATE.

WEDNESDAY, 22nd FEB., 1911. THE KITCHENER WAY.

Double the Circulation of a-iy otlu r newspaper published in the district.

It is both instructive and amusing to notice the effect of Lord Kitchener’s visit to Egypt on both natives and Europeans." The great soldier lias no official position just now, save that he is a member of the Imperial DefenceCommittee, and the truth may be that his visit to Egypt is of a purely private nature. He was unemployed, and he was naturally keen to revisit the country where he worked so long and so successfully. But from all accounts the visit has caused a great stir in the community. Some war correspondent describes how when Kitchener emerged from his tent everybody working around about it felt uncomfortable, and a sweating "Tommy ’ said his lonic was '•like the bloomin' Day of Judgment.” Egypt is experiencing a similar sensation. Kitchener is back again, so every-

body must “buck up.” The Cairo correspondent of the “Pall Mall Gazette reports that even Ministerial circles are in quite a flutter and everyone is on his very best behaviour. The natives are quite excited. Those who follow English politics are persuaded that if the Unionists get the reins of power again he will succeed Sir Eldon Gorst, and indeed there is a general feeling that whatever party is in. power, he will be the next British Agent. The one topic of conversation when Lord Kitchener arrived in Cairo was his drastic methods in the interior, and even the seditious Press became a good deal milder under the glance of that cold compelling eye. The years that have passed since he Egypt have not weakened his influence. A high native officer remarked to the correspondent:—“Kitchener was, in“deed. a hard master and a stern disciplinarian ; but, by Allah! if you “stuck to your work, you got your “reward ; and above all, if you carried “out your orders implicitly, the Sirdar “backed you up through thick and “thin.” Tt is interesting to note, too, to what an extent Egypt is ruled today by Kitchener’s men. The Sirdar was once his Chief intelligence officer; the Commander of the Army'of Occupation commanded a brigade at Omdurman, and many of the men, prominent in the Egyptian Civil Service and in the work of regenerating the Soudan, were tested and tried by the greatest organiser and keenest judge of men, of our time.