GERMAN VIEW OF KITCHENER.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 20 May 1915, Page 2

GERMAN VIEW OF KITCHENER.

"NO PSYCHOLOGICAL SENSE."

The Cologne Gazette prints a short article on Lord Kitchener, in which the journal remarks that the man who is commanding the British armies against Germany deserves all the more attention because nothing* much is known about his personality. British generals, the journal says, "are not in the habit of enlightening the world vith all sorts of details about themselves.

"Kitchener," the Cologne Gazette continues, "is taciturn even for an Englishman. Moreover, he does not pay over-frequent visits to the British troops in France, but prefers to remain in Whitehall at the War Office, whence he controls the enormous war- ■ machine which he is hurling against U3 from all corners of the globe, and. wlr.ch he has in the first place to piece together. " •

"It is the historic experience in all British wars that their organisation is never ready at the beginning of the operations, and that the real preparations have always -to be begun after the outbreak of hostilities. . . FieldMarshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener is the embodiment of British will power British toughness, and British concentration. We do not knpw whether he has accepted the task of fighting the uerman nation in arms with pleasure. .... He is in no way equal to the undertaking because he lacks the first quality of the great general, namely, the psychological sense. "Kitchener >,does not possess the slightest understanding of the souls of the people he is fighting or controlling lie is the personification of the soulless British imperial machine which wages war by means of bargains and intrigues. It is for that very reason that, his compatriots believe "in him lersonally Kitchener is said to hare ene ruling passion—the collectiacr of old chma; and- this ceramic love is perhaps the only close bond which- connects him with humanity."