EARL KITCHENER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 292, 19 May 1915, Page 8

EARL KITCHENER.

A GERMAN ESTIMATE. "NO PSYCHOLOGICAL SENSE. 1 ' The iKolnische Zeitung prints a short article on Lord Kitchener in which the journal remarks that the man who is commanding the British armies against Germany deserves all the more attention because nothing much is known about his personality. "British generals, the journal says, are not in the habit Of enlightening the world with all sorts of details about themselves.

"Kitchener," the Kolnisehe Zeitung continues, "is taciturn even for an Englishman. Moreover, he does not pay over-frequent visits to the British troop's in France, but prefers to remain in Whitehall at the War Office, whence he controls the enormous war machine which he is hurling against us from all corners of the globe, and which he has, in thc_first place, to piece together. : "It is the historic experience in all J.ntish wars that their organisation is never ready at the beginning of the operations and that the reaFpreparations have always to be begun after the outbreak of hostilities. Field-Marshal Horatio Hei'bert Kitchener is the embodiment of British will-power, British toughness and' British concentration. We do not know whether lie has accepted the task of .fighting the German nation i„ arms with pleasure. Tie ; s f„ , 10 „..,., equal to the undertaking, because he laeKs the ilirst quality of the general sense, namely, the psychological sense Kitchener does not possess the slightest understanding of t | l(l S( , u]s of iicople he is fighting 0 r controllipn- pie is the personification of the soulless Brilisli Jiiipc-rial machine, which war by means of bargains and intrigue's. It ITnf ■ * K t r T< "' y . r0 " S0 " t,,ftt )lis co '»- patriots believe in him.

lersonally, Kitchener is said to have one rnlmg passion, the collecting of old <'ima, and tins ceramic love is perhaps to one elose bond which connects him with humanity."