A GREAT MILITARY LEADER

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2306, 13 November 1914, Page 6

A GREAT MILITARY LEADER

KITCHENER'S OPINION OF ''GENERAL JOFFRE . Mtppat tacit dppodp Trip athpc lint A 1 lAaft übtlmiV lnb ALLIKo (Rec: November 12, 6.30 p.m.) London, November 11. In the course of his speech at the Lord Mayor's banquet in tho Guildhall, Earl Kitchener , said:—"Every day increases our admiration for the glorious army under General Jofffe, a great man and a great military leader. Tho Russians, under, tho brilliant leadership of the Graud Duke Nicholas, have aohieved victories of the utmost value, and of vast strategic importance. . The enemy is', equipped with elaborate machinery of destruction,, and by. fixing tho date of the war beforehand, possessed considerable advantage.' The British Army, under gallant and skilled leadership, haa proved to be not such a contemptible war-engine as some are disposed to think." Mr. Asquith (the Prime Minister), referring to Turkey, 6aid. that the Allies were compelled, after veiled menaces and impudent equivocations, to recognise an open enemy. He unhesitatingly predicted that Turkey would perish by the sword—the Turkish Empire had dug its own grave with its own hands. Regarding the destruction of Pmssian militarism, it was a great task, worthy of a great nation, and it was necessary for its .accomplishment that "every man, old, young, rich, poor, busy, leisured, learned, simple, to give what he has, to do what he can." : IMPORTS FOR HOLLAND , DUTCH GOVERNMENT TO CONTROL FOOD IMPORTATIONS. (Rec. November 12, 11.20 p.m.) Washington, November 11.

The State Department announces that Holland has entered into an arrangement whereby the Dutch Government ■secures a practical monopoly of the importation into the Netherlands oi «rl foodstuffs, flour, and cattle. riolland has entered into a contract with' the Holland-Amerika steamers, the only neutral line plying to America, whereby jjrivaU sbitjments will cot be accepted.