LORD KITCHENER'S GENIUS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 110, 19 November 1915, Page 3 (Supplement)

LORD KITCHENER'S GENIUS.

"EFFORT WHICH HISTORY WILL REGARD AS A MIRACLE."

OUR GREAT ARMY, The "Petit Parisien," in an articlo entitled "The British Effort," says:— "One may imagine the enormous amount of labour performed by Great Britain to provide herself in les6 than one year with an army to face the dan T ger revealed to her by the present European war. To her honour be it said Great Britain has carried out this colossal work without haste, and with knowledge that she has not worked in vain.

" Thus 6he has kept all the promises which she had made to France, and today is asking herself whether her gigantic effort is sufficient. By directing her aggression against Great Britain Germany may have succeeded 'it detec mining the British nation to adopt a military discipline similar to that of the other countries of Europe.'' The "Petit Parisien" then recalls a visit paid to one of the correspondents to Aldershot, where he attended a review. After paying a great tribute to the organisation and training of soldiers who, it says, are vigorous and healthy, the journal concludes: " These Englishmen arc burning with desiro to fight; they are only waiting to be shipped abroad. In Great Britain the art of preparation for war has attained to the degree of genius." M. Maurice Banes, writing in the "Echo de Paris," gives an account of a visit to the British army. Ho speaks of the exploits of the bntish and expresses admiration for the Indians and Canadians. Speaking or the present army he says: "At the outset the army was composed of magnificent soldiers who made it their career, men broken to discipline, marksmen of the first order, and accomplishea cavalrymen. The Territorials and Reserves, who came later, had not the same degree of discipline, but were equal to them in valour. The battlefield has levelled that difference. "Lord Kitchener, with his immense prestige, undertook the task of dealing with tho war, and began the magnificent effort which history will regard as a miracle. All the Bntish volunteers iiro animated with a moral sentiment which induced them to leave their comforts in order to face death."—Rcutcr.