DEMAND INTERNMENT OF ALIEN ENEMIES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14048, 19 July 1916, Page 3

DEMAND INTERNMENT OF ALIEN ENEMIES.

BRITISH PRESS AND THE DEATH OF KITCHENER. , LONDON", June 7. The morning newspapers to-day ail give up their editorial space to blackbordered eulogies of Kitchener. Chief interest perhaps attaches to the tributes of the papers of Lord Northctitt'e, which after hailing Earl Kitchener m the early days of" the war as the only man for the War Office, turned on him a year ' ago with* bitter denunciations as being an overrated man who had had no experience except m little Asiatic border campaigns. The Times and the Daily Mail were publicty burned m the Stock Exchange after their first attacks on Earl Kitchener, and by resolution wero barred from many public reading rooms. To-day, however, both these newspapers lay aside the old animus and sound no discordant note m the universal chorus of. editorial praise of the fallen leader. The Daily Mail says: — "So ends, with distressing suddenness, a. career of romantic distinction which had assumed extraordinary significance m the estimation of his countrymen." The Daily Express says: — "Without Earl Kitchener it is probable that we would have lost the war months ago." The Morning Post, discussing ,llie Sinking of the Hampshire, says : — "Circumstances point at espionage and treachery, and the country will suspect' this the more, owing to the singular freedom still allowed to enemy subjects- m Great Britain." i "It was his doggedness m doing his work that won him popular trust, because it was akin to the people's own temperament," says the Times. "He had none of the gifts by which politicians win favor. He was not an orator, he did not court .the multitude and he had few friends. It was m strange loneliness that he trod! the path of duty with stern and unwavering purpose." The Daily Mail gives prominence to the following statement:-^- -'. "Earl Kitchener's intention to go to Russia was known to a great manypeople m London .on Thursday. Jt ought not to have been so known. The rews of it may have reached the enemy. The public mind has been quick to associate his death with the work of spies. We have every sympathy with the demand which comes to us from many parts of the country that all aii-sn enemies who are still at large, especially those m high places, be interned hi once."