Lord Curzon’s Resignation.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42772, 31 August 1905, Page 2

Lord Curzon’s Resignation.

In connection with the recent re.-ignation of Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India, the following, which was published in a leading English newspaper in Junelast, will beof interns':— KITCHENER SCORES . AGAIN.

We may claim f ir ourselves, as an empire, a greater propensity for doing things by halves, when wh do them at all, than is possessed by any other people on the face of the earth. The most recent instance has been found for us by Lord Kitchener, who is commander in-Ohief in India. He declares that he is not permitted to do more than half the work of reorganising the aimy under his command. The other half is done by the military member of the Indian Council, who in effect either objects in to'o to all or concedes just half of what L >rd Kitchener desires. His lordship insists that if he is to put the army into a fit state to repel the Russian invasion which is certain to come soon, he must, have a free hand. Lord Curz m, the Viceroy, as head of the Council, objected; but Lord Kitchener held' to his point, and the Home Government have given him the power he desired. Some have cavilled at the suggestion of speedy trouble on our Indian frontier. They suggest that her military strength is so much’ weakened, and her finances so disorganised by the war she is now waging, that she is not fit for accthei sei'ious conflict. Those forget tha* - a war with this country would bo popular in Russia, that the Czar might enter upon it in hope of taking his revolting neoples’ minds off their sufferings and wrongs, and that there will be a huge military force set free for set vice anywhere the moment peace is made with Japan. Why not to invade India? A recent cable states that a Blue ; book dealing with the Indian Army; shows that Lord Curzon tendered hie resignation ii| June.