LORD KITCHENER.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 645, 23 October 1909, Page 5

LORD KITCHENER.

'MOVEMENTS AFTER JAPANESE TOUR. (By telegraph-Press. .Assoclation-OoyyrigbU ' /.';'... : Melbourne, October 22. ■'' Lord Kitchener will reach Port Darwin 'on December 21. 'He will ' board '. tho cruiser Encounter, and ■ then ; inspect ■ Port Darwin, Thursday-Island, and other points of defence' eh route to the south.- '■'■• ..■■/".■'/.■TriE''.MEbIfERRANE'AN. POST.. _Light on retirement of the Duke of Lonnaught; from the Mediterranean command is dealt with in the "Army and Navy Gazette." Ihat journal says:-"The Duke of Connatight took up the command in, tho Mediterranean ■very, reluctantly, but, he loyally submitted iu the special circumstances that had arisen SinecurcMhave never been to. his tasto. At length -the/Dukes,position at Malta becamo intolerable... ■■. ■■. •■.--.:. . . ,■: "Ho knew ■■ that •. his duty of considering questions of strategy and defenco within' the ilimits of his command' could be executed just as well in Whitehall. Otherwise his duty was one of inspection, and'the troops were inspected enough.'already.- ; 'Accordingly, it ■ was :'■ with gratification that his Royal Highness coneluded his duties.at Malta. They are duties of such slender importance that Sir Frederick ; Forcstior-Walkcr,, who is to,act in'his place, m England.'oh' leave; '-' '•' ' ■•-, "■ '''-'•• |. "Lord< Kitchener'will, we are suroi "vivify I the position to hold.' .It will bo- changed I in. character/ with-new'and. larger duties, but they also,, in .large part, will bo such.that Lord Kitchener, could well discharge them at : home. _. Thoso ,who are well informed aro of the opinion that he will not romain at' Malta long."- :-:' . • . ~.-.;