MAKING THINGS HUM

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 114, 7 October 1914, Page 6

MAKING THINGS HUM

THE KITCHENER WAY. A London correspondent writes to an Australian paper;—Karl Kitchener is making things hum at the War Office. It lias been the pride of this Department of State that no letter addressed to it has ever been replied to under a week. The conqueror of Khartoum has altered this. No Government office is more efficiently discharging its functV-BS than that over which lie presides. The stall' has been greatly augmented ana divided into three shifts, so that the department is speeding up the. whole 24 hours. it i;< related that the first day K. of K. took over control of the War Office he asked the hall porter, "l s there a bed here?'' and when that official shook his head and responded, in the negative, the new Minister of War curtly said, "(let one." Jiumiiiu fcii} i[aii[AV hi luuls oi|,l si the army throughout all its raiiiifica tions. Unhasting, yet unresisting, he brought every division up to concert pitch without the slightest hitch anywhere. It is the custom to say that the navy is a smarter service than the army, because the men have to do things on the jump, lint this comparison is no longer possible. K. of K. has got everybody doing tlie right thing at the right time in the right wav on te jump. \.>' only have the regulars and the Territorials been completely mobilised, hut we are well on the way to the creation of; another army of 100,001) men, who will be available for expeditionary work. And K. of K.'s thinking and planning does not end here. Our striking force may be. in Belgium, but the master tactician and the final arbiter of its disposition is in the War Office, where he has the battleground of Europe not only plotted out on military maps, but indelibly all imprinted on his own brain. For K. of K., like Napoleon, is one of those mental giants who can do a dozen different things at the same time, and do them all well. '