KITCHENER AS THE FRENCH SEE HIM.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 21 December 1901, Page 4

KITCHENER AS THE FRENCH SEE HIM.

The Figaro prints an article on Lord Kitchener from the pen of Mr German Bapst. The article starts with a sketch of the conqueror of Khartoum, with some thoroughly French touches, as, for instance, the following; —“Do not speak of, women to this man, who is devoted by ambition. Tnis superb specimen of humanity, who might be credited with numberless feminine conquests, docs not understand women. Ho is insensible to her charms, her grace and her beauty. Ho prefers not to have officers under his command who are married or who are noted lady-killers. The man who is attached to a woman consecrates to her a portion of his like, whilst those who servo under Lord Kitchener must be lemons from which he can squeeze all too juice.’’ Evidently (says the Paris correspondent of the London Chronic'e, who sends a summary of the article) the writer imagines that modern warfare ought to include the amorous gallantry of mediaeval knighthood ; and the general tone of the article indicates that sentimentalism which seems to have been forgotton in Madagascar and elsewhere. Lord Kitchener neglects the wounded and treats the sanitary service as an obstruction. He is such a thorough “ condottiere ” that he looks ungainly in ordinary gentlemanly attire. He is, in a word, more of a machine than a man. The following passage is of a serious turn:— At a general “ machine’’ Kitchener has produced nothing literary. His orders and despatches are not drawn up in the studied form of a Napoleon ora Wellington. In a couple of lines the operations are reported, or the results only are telegraphed. On the other hand, when Lord Kitchener is in the leisure of private life ho is not insensible to art, literature, or lofty thought. Far from that, on the day he was named Sirdar he chose a house in the most agreeable district of Cairo, and filled it with the treasure of Eastern art and with masterpieces of artists of Damascus depicting the grand epoch of Islamism. When ordered off to the Transvaal these were all sold by auction with the mansion that contained them.” M. Germain Bapst faintly refutes the charges of cruelty in which French paper hourly rerel. He concludes, however, that the hero of Omdurman is not a Bayard, or even a Napoleon, and concludes thus:—“Kitchener is above all a man of action. If England remains at peace with the world his mission will bo over, and he will remain effaced. If, on the other hand, she goes into new m ars he will be the general most adapted to achieve good results, but probably according to principles which arc not those of our age.”

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