LORD KITCHENER.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 1, 3 January 1910, Page 2

LORD KITCHENER.

The late G.W. Steerens, the war chen^ "*' '" 1898> Wrot<> vl Kit"

Major-General Sir Horatio Herbert Kitchener is forty-eight years old by the book, but that is irrelevant. Me stands several inches over 6ft straight as a lance, and looks out imperiously above most men's heads - his motions are deliberate and strong; slender, but firmly knit, he seems built for tireless steel-wire endurance ratlier than tor power or agility; that also is irrelevant. Steady, passionless eye* shaded by decisive brows, brick red, rather full cheeks, a lons moustache, beneath which you divine an immovable mouth; his face is harsh, and neither appeals for affection nor stirs dislike. All this is irrelevant too; neither age, nor figure, nor race nor any accident of person has any bearing on the essential Sir-e-r« has no age but the prime ot lite, no body but one to carry his mind no face but one to keep his brain behind. The brain and will are the essence and the whole of the man. • . . His precision is so inhumanly unerring, he is more like a machine thaaa a man. You feel that he ought to be patented and shown with pride at the Paris International Exhibition. British Empire: Exhibit No. 1, hors concours, the Soudan Machine. . "The man Herbert Kitchener owns the affection of private friends in JLngland and of old comrades of fifteen years' standing; for the rest of the world there is no man Herbert Kitchener, but .only the Sirdar, neither asking affection nor giving it. His officers and men are wheels in the machine; he feeds them enough to make them efficient, and works them as mercilessly as he works himself. . For Anglo-Egypt he is the Mahdi, the expected; the man who has sifted experience and corrected error; who has worked at small things and waited for great; marble to sit still and fire to smite; steadfast, cold, and inflexible; the man who has cut out his human heart and made himself a machine to retake Khartoum."