VISCOUNT KITCHENER.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10289, 18 July 1911, Page 5

VISCOUNT KITCHENER.

HIS EGYPTIAN APPOINTMENT.

PRESS OPINIONS

Received Tliis Morning, I! 05 o'clock

LONDON, July 17. The Times dwells on tlie significance of Viscount Kitchener's appointment as British Resident in Egypt, implying Sir Edward Grey's policy as outlined in Parliament thirteen months ago will be carried out with resolution and judgment. The Times adds that Viscount Kitchener has> proved liiirr.s-olf a great soldier and a great nxil.irtary administrator. His countrymen would expect him to prove himself a great civilian. The Daily News describes Sir Edward Grey as a convinced Cromerite, who defended even the atrocities at Denshawi, and wlio might be capable of sending Viscount Kitchener to Egypt for tlie deliberate purpose of reaction. It is difficult, it says, to conceive that Cabinet, as a whole, was not on its guard against such an idea. Doubtless the Government ' remeohbered • • Viscount Kitchener' s gifts, including liis tact in dealing with men. It was clear that • the War Office: was determined to have no Kitchener over it. His frank preference ifor professional efficiency over birth was distasteful to .the .upholders of exclu&ivenoss. Only a •strong man, with the? support of a sympathetic Government, could blow away numibing miasma of snobbery, which was spreading from the regimental barracks to the War Office itself. If Viscount Kitchener was such a man, the failure to find him a high military appointment at Home was not hard to explain.