LORD KITCHENER.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 27 May 1915, Page 5

LORD KITCHENER.

THE DAILY MAIL'S ATTACKS

WIDESPREAD INDIGNATION IN

BRITAIN

NUMEROUS RESOLUTIONS OF

CONFIDENCE

KS3TH, May 26

The Daily News has published 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 never liked Lord Kitchener to use his own name instead of the King's for these volunteer armies which have been raised. The public, too, disliked some of the advertising methods which were adopted in order to gain recruits. We ourselves know1 Lord Kitchener starved the ' army in France of high explosive shells. The fact is he ordered the wrong kind of shell. The kind he ordered was tKe same as was used against the Beers. He persisted id sending shrapnel, which is useless for trench warfare, although warned re' peatedly that the kind of shell re, quired was a violent explosive bomb which would dynamite its way through trenches and entanglements. The elas? of shells Lord Kitchener has persisted in sending has caused death to thousands of our poor soldiers.

"The new advertisement urging the enlistment of men of forty years of age 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 is not brilliant, and his life in India and "Egypt has made him unacquainted with British conditions."

LONDON, May 26,

Lord Kitchener is receiving numerous resolutions of confidence from public bodies in all parts of the country. He replied that he much appreciated the expressions of confidence.