A KITCHENER STORY

Patea Mail, 13 November 1939, Page 4

A KITCHENER STORY

GENERAL t> E WET Kitchener., dour iitfii' tliut lie wes, Ikul a good sense of liumour. The Boer general, do Wei, raptured a British train containing K‘> 'weeks’ accumulated mails. He Inirut it. A stall' officer nervously reported the loss. Kitchener remarked: “Well, de Wet is tiie first man .1 know who understands the right way of dealing with an accumulation of correspondence.” During the later stages when guerrilla warfare developed, ea refill farm to farm searches were necessary, “On one occasion a general wellknown for his wT, when searching a farm, was told by the lady he could not enter one room as her daughter was being confined. Haying he was a grandfather himself, he insisted on vi.-dling the daughter. Dulbug aside, the bedclothes, he saw beside the girl a rifle and revolver. Turning to the old vrow he said: “I suppose, ma’am, if you were brought io bed you would produce a fifteen-pounder and a pompom. ” >