LORD KITCHENER.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9642, 6 November 1909, Page 4

LORD KITCHENER.

Referring to Lord Kitchener's new apppointment the London "Daily Telegraph" forsees the possibility at no very distant date of his recall to England in order that the ramifications of the work of co-ordinating our Imperial defences may be controlled by him with all the organisation and office machinery that can be [ lent him by the Government. For the present, it says, his dutie3, extensive as they are, are nominally confined tu the coasts of Africa and the adjacent islands. But a day of larger things is daw.iing for the Empire, and it is clear that this promotion is merely a stepping-stone to a sphere of still wider influence, and the time is not perhaps far off when his unrivalled powers of supervision and control will rind full scope in a task calling for all the foresight, pluck and determination that even Liord Kitchener possesss. His new title should be not so much High Commissioner in the Mediterranean, as Warden of the Outer Marches of our enormous and ever • increasing Empire. For that is the work which Lord Kitchener is called to <?o, and his present appointment is but a stage on that pro-1 imperial road, the inevitable goal of which we are, each after his own capacity, beginning slowing to perceive.