LORD KITCHENER.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 93, 19 April 1912, Page 4

LORD KITCHENER.

Lord Kitchener is 'the subject of a rather remarkable article published in a London magazine this month. The writer deals especially with. Lord Kitchener’s work as British Agent in Egypt, and supplies detailed tacts concerning the Kitchener administration. Consequently the speculations and the inferences drawn by the contributor must also claim interest. i’he writer shows that Lord Kitchener went to Cairo as British Agent on September 29, and that on the following day Italy sent the ultimatum concerning Tripoli to Turkey. He suggests that the British Government, foreseeing that if Italy did not grub Tripoli. Germany would do so, determined to assist Italy palssively by barring tieadvance of Turkish troops through Egypt to the seat of war. So they sent Lord Kitchener to Egypt, as he was the only man possessing saillicicm prestige and force of charactci to keep the Egyptians quiet while their Mussulman co-religionists were being attacked by Italy. The price of tha: British assistance to Italy iviis to he the defection of Italy from the irip.c Alliance, and her active support to England and France in the event ol their being attacked by Germany. The contributor argues that the peace o!

Europe is preserved at present on mg to the fact that 'Germany ami Austria are elfeelively hemmed 'in between England in, the north, Franco in the west, Italy in the soutn, and Russia in the eaist. -Many examples are quoted of Lord Kitchener’s methods, which have been entirely successful in reducing the most querulous Egyptian nationalists to amiable silence.