LORO KITCHENER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 814, 19 February 1910, Page 3

LORO KITCHENER.

A PEN PICTURE

There appears to be no end to the pen pictures of Lord Kitchener, who has arrived in New Zealand from Australia. Here is one from a Pekin correspondent of a United States paper His personal appearance disappointed me. From his photograph one would imagine him to be a handsome man, with a face rugged and keen. One thinks of him unconsciously as in the prime of life. But in reality he is already nearly sixty years of age, and his appearance is neither striking nor unusual, Only a pair of remarkably keen and piercing eyes give promise of exceptional penetration and power. Probably he is the greatest soldier of this age —-and yet one might easily pass by him in the street without remarking him or, with his hat on to cover his eyes, thinking him anything but a man whose complexion is exceptionally florid. That he has little personal vanity is immediately apparent. He stepped from his special train in a worn tweed suit, a cap, and a pair of brown boots. Englishmen of this type hate any personal show. lam told it is a real penance for him to put on his uniform, and the one unhappy hour he spent in Pekin was when he had to get into it and go to Court. At all the other functions in the Chinese capital he wore ordinary clothes, and at official banquets dress clothes and the Order of Merit, of which he is justly proud.”