LORD KITCHENER, THE NEW COMMANDER OF AFRICA.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2361, 10 May 1901, Page 3

LORD KITCHENER, THE NEW COMMANDER OF AFRICA.

. »—4 1 BOER SPY'S OPINION OF HI.

Mr. Hales tells the story of a smart, good looking married woman of about thirty years of age who acted as a Boer spy. She was married to a Russian civil engineer resident at Johannesburg, and at the outbreak of the war the slim Transvaalers sent her over the border labelled " dangerous." She established herself at Cape Town, and soon managed to extract information from impressionable English officers. Says Mr. Hales : —" When Lord Kitchener of Khartoum arrived in Africa she went to meet him, for she knew that if she could get inside his secrets she could learn all things. She made it her business to come casually in contact with the Egyptian Sphinx. She ran her eyes over the tall, gaunt figure, the rugged, ugly face. She looked into the prominent, all-seeing eyes, and knew at a glance that she was face to face with a magnetism stronger than her own, and nothing would induce her to go near him again. ' That is the most dangerous man in Britain,' she said. ' I feel as if I were within the shadow of death when I am near him. He is a man for men to conquer. No woman can reach him to use him ; he would read me like an open book in an hour, and I believe he would shoot me as he would a Kaffir if he caught me red-handed. I will try all other men, but not that living death's head. No wonder he conquered Egypt. I think he would conquer in Hades.' "