YOUNG SOLDIERS — OLD LEADERS

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 18 March 1915, Page 2

YOUNG SOLDIERS — OLD LEADERS

This is a war of young soldiers, but old leaders, points out an Exchange. Kitchener is 64; French, the greatest cavalry leader of the day, is 62.; Lord Fisher, at 73, returns to take cfcatge of the navy; General Joffre ia 62. 'Sgkeral Pau came out of his retirement^ )&& at 66 took the second position in the French army; General Castelnau, third in command, is about the same age, and General Galheni, the defender of Paris is 70 VonderGoltzisTl; Yon Hindenbepg is' 67; Yon Kluck is 67 ; Yon Emmich, who took Liege and has since died, was 64 ; Yon Moltke is 66, and his famous uncle was^l when he crushed France in 1871. All the Japanese leaders in the RussoJapanese war were over 60. Compared to these men, the brilliant soldiers of the Napoleonic era were children. Napoleon homself w as only at W ti*da6; Wellington was the same age, and so were Ney and Soult. Cronchy was 49, Murat44, Nelson died at 47 ; yet all these men had achieved their greatest fame before they reached 40. Alexander the Great died when he was 33. Hannibal was 30 when he crossed the Alps. Sir Francis Drake, with a great career behind him, was 48 when he met the Armada.