LORD KITCHENER IN CAIRO.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1246, 30 September 1911, Page 7

LORD KITCHENER IN CAIRO.

ENTHHSIASTIfrITELCOME.-' By Teloffraph—Press Assncintion-Copyricht i Cairo, September 28. Field-Marshal Lord Kitchener, the British Minister in Egypt, was welcomed with tumultuous enthusiasm on; Ms arrival here, great crowds of natives clapping their hands and waving their tarbooshes (caps). •If Lord Kitchener'should go to Egypt as British Consul-Ueneral, we may take it for granted (says the "Manchester Guardian") that a certain wildly inaccurate legend concerning him will not survive his first season at Cairo. This is the legend of his Spartan austerity of habit and tasto. Those who were in India eight years ago will remember' the amused discussions as to the impossibility of Lord Kitchener's fitting himself into the conventional and luxurious lifo of Simla; and the thoroughness with which the expectations of Anglo-India were falsified. The Commander-in-Chief revealed himself as more than a little of the grand seigneur. He began to entertain on a scale which more than satisfied the ideas of Simla. He surrounded himself with a great collection of furniture and curios, and finding his house—Snowdon—inadequate for his purposes lie transformed it, at enormous expense, into the most splendid and elaborate official residence in' India. And when, on his way home, ho was travelling through the Far East, Lord Kitchener was successful in adding greatly to that remarknblo collection of treasures which in India had seemed something of a mystery as the possession of a plain soldier.