EARL KITCHENER.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 12, 14 May 1915, Page 7

EARL KITCHENER.

A GERMAN ESTIMATE. "NO PSYCHOLOGICAL SENSE." The "Kolnische Zeitung” prints a short article on Lord Kitchener, in which the journal remarks that th« man who is commanding the British irmies against Germany deserves all ihe more attention because nothing nuch is known about his personality. British generals, the journal says, are not in the habit of enlightening the world with all sorts of details about themselves. "Kitchener,” the "Kolnische Zeitung” continues, "is taciturn even for an Englishman. Moreover, he does tot pay over-frequent visits to the British troops in France, hut prefers to remain in Whitehall at the War Iffice, whence he controls the enormous war machine which he is hurling against us from all corners of the globe md which lie has, in the first place, to piece together. "It is the historic experience in all British wars that their organisation is never ready at the beginning of the operations, and that the real preparations have always to he begun after the outbreak of hostilities. Field-Mar-ilial Horatio Herbert Kitchener is the ■mhodiment of British will-power, British toughness, and British concentration. We do not know whether he has accepted the task of fighting the German nation in arms with pleasure. He is in no way equal to the undertaking because lie lacks tho fit quality of the great general, namely, tho psychological sense. "Kitchener does not possess tho (lightest understanding of the souls of oho people lie is fighting or controlling. He is the personification of the soulless British Imperial machine, which wages var by means of bargains and intrigues. It is for that very reason that his compatriots believe in him. "Personally, Kitchener is said to have one ruling passion, tho collecting of old china, and this ceramic love is perhaps the one close bond which connects him with humanity.”