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Major J. W. Hills gavo'a dinner Contemporary rumour and JSE
(at the House of Commons recently sip, alded by his own curions
to calobento the passing of the aloofness' made of the late Lord Kitchener a man of mystery and
We learn now that when the Act. In proposing the bealth of [Sex Disqualification (Removal) romance. His long absences from Expeditionary Force first went the Lord Chancellor Major Hills England--for he spent the greater accos, Kitchener was all for a said that the Law Society, once part of his life in Palestine, Egypt, concentration at Amiens, the it gave way, yielded handsomely South Africa, and India-contri- original plan, and against the and granted not only free so- bated to this, and so there grow advance to Mons, foreseeing the trance to women, but aquality of up in the public mind a legendary overwhelming rush of German par. They hoped that a large figure, cold and silent, who was troops and our enforced retreat number of university always stiffly and 'steruly
A conference took place in his would adopt the law as a profes- parade."
[room on August 12–—–
sian. Without shattering an ideal He listened estefully to the
Lord Birkenhead, in reply justi- and an idol, Sir George Arthur views expounded by the French fed the part. he had taken with shows as a very different figure and British Staffs, and then regard
Women's domand in the official life just published. replied that be had understood for the franchise in the past, For we sit with the man of iron an
and accepted that the concentra-but said that the question of in his tent on desert or veldt, and tion of troops was to be at Amiens, the admission, of women to in his room at the War Office, a protested strongly against the legal profession stood and we find him a man of desh concentration so far forward as on an entirely different basis, and and feeling, who had his dark Maubouze. Nothing ha urged, eight years ago he said in the hours and his naments of anxiety, could be worse for the moral of House of Commons that he was his little sentiments and his big troops than that the result of in favour of women being admit. friendships.
their first meeting for over 30ted to the legal profession. He years with a Europeas enemy did not know what degree of should be a compulsory retire spezesa woman would meet with man, which he regarded as the as the Bar.
He hoped that it. likely sequel to detraining so would be very great, for he far forward,
no longer practised himself. But he was over-ruled. We (Laughter.) He had been spend- went to Mons, and on that fairling a considerable part of the To the picture of the real as Sunday morning we exchanged last six months in attempting to opposed to the legendary Kit-jour first shots with Germany on persuade bis own daughter to go bener, Lord Salisbury contri-the banks of the canal, and there-to the Bar, hat she resolutely butes some good strokes in an after fell back over ground that refused at present, pleading that admirable preface. After writing has become a part of our senti- there was a swifter and easier of this stern soldier "wha shed ment and history. French was success in life in the role of al tears upon the spot where Gonios writing and wiring bia news and had fallen, the man who would plans to Kitchener. At Isst, on
ha was will gonng (Laughter.) [upon some exena- of protended August 30, he is writing from It was a most anxious' and un-
business spend hours in order to Compiegne -
certain profession and those to do an old frient #kindness, I cannot 937 that I
amwhom success came in a degree) surrounded bappy in the outlook... My by their own merit. in a degree by 5 Staff who
wor. colence in the ability of the by good fortune, and in 'a degree shipped him." he touches on bis leaders of the French Army to by chance, were always acutely] simplicity, his deep sentiment carry this campaign to asuccess-conscious of the many stages in and his natural painotiam, and fal conclusion is fast waning, and which their own career might continues:-
this is my real reason for the easily Lave completely failed. "But the moral fineness of decision I have taken to more He had no doubt that there were | Lord Kitchener's character show-the British Forces so far back.
functions which could be dia. ed itself on another side in a I feel most strongly the abso-charged profitably to themselves noteworthy cleanliness of mind. Inte necessity for retaining in my and profitably to the community None will forget the wards in his bands complete independence of by women, and if they were suc- address in 1914 to the troops, action, and power to retire on my cessful in producing the highest urging them to treat all women base when circumstances render intellectual triumphs he had no with perfect courtesy. This was 1 necessary.
besitation in saying that women a matter of no surprise to those.
-I would receive adequate reward. who knew his attitude towards
(Cheers.) women a chivalry of mind bes
jess.
the
CLEANLINESS OF MIND.
WAR
longing to a bygone age, which placed them on a pedestal."
"I recall at a play in London his resentment at some, note of course disrespect where he con- sidered there should only be
reverence.
AN EMBASSY INCIDENT.
he
-
movie artiste." (Laughter.) But
A CALL AT 1.30 AM. This meant falling out of line Mrs. Thompson, proposing the] with the French, and of any lesser toast of "The Bar," said that man than Kitchener one wild there were at present only about! say that this letter "pot the wind 20 women who hoped soon to well up him." He regarded become mam bars of the profession. Lard French's. proposals M The Lord Chief Justice said calamitos
that, speaking for the Bench and| For him... the Expeditionary the profession, he was delighted Force was the point of the spear that the women bad joined them. was fashioning. He knew He was afraid that by the time Une notes that in 1874, at the that he could make of the British one of them became a Judge he height of the persecution of Empire a great military power, would be too old to welcome her. Ritmalists, Kitelanas joined the bus be must bare time on bis but be would do his best to English Church Union, the ex-side, and meantime we must keep remain Lord Chief Justice in treme High Church body, and in tight hold of the hand of our-order to do so. There never bad 1876, after bis first visit to Allies.
been any reason why women Palestine, was enrolled in thel A hurried Cabinet meeting, should not be good Judges or Army Guill of the Holy Starda d.wire to French. his reply received advocates, and the fact that of which he remained a member at one in the morning of Septem-women made good magistrates to the end of his life.
er 1, and half an hour later Sir was beyond question. And so, with a big jump to the Edward Grey was startled from recent war. when he was stopped sigep by Kitchener walking intal
at Duser, po his way back to his bedroom and telling him that, for a little straight talk on the Egypt, and called to the War after consulting Mr. Asquith, he Salonica position Office. The German menace had had urtered a destroyer to be The conversation between the long been prevent in his ready in three hours to take him straightforward, far-seeing. Min-) mind.
to Havre. Thence he burried hot-ister and the intriguing. time-
An insigniñcent entry in a foot to the British Embassy in serving Monarch lasted an hour pocket diary records Kitchener's Paris, where he met Lord French, and a half, and culminated in the engagement to luncheon at the and arranged with him that the queru'on interrogatory, “What German Embassy on July 21. British troops should remain in um I to do when Germany From me rather sad words the line, conforming with the threatens me with a million dropped by the Ambassador, movements of the French army, men?" "Remember the four Kitchener thea and there was while acting with caution to millions England will bare in the persuaded of the imminefice of protect their flanks.
field next year," was the quick} European war..
Ele ad- Thas happily ended an episode retort. vised that friends who were in which Kitchener always looked] Much more of interest one Germany should return immedia-back upon as one of the most would like to quote. But the tely. "You can use my name when pregnant of the war. In the work was carried through, s002 |you-telegraphy-Phiz 3085on="forcedding" months he had times in anxiety and depression, table-bias served to bring home wzny talks in many places with but always with fajib in the many English travellers who Sir John, but no conversation British cause and the British would otherwise bave been was more Trought with anxiety. people, so that "the last_division | forcibly detained.
or more fruitful in suocess, than of the Kitchener Armies to go During Kitchener's first morn-the rapid szokange of views in overses took ship the very day ou ing in Whitehall.—
Paris in the seemidely darkest which he himself set out on the His private secretary handed hour when official Paris was be- journey from which there was to him a pen with which to give his taking itself to Bordeaux. signature for the official stamp.
The pen declined to function..
GALLIPOLI
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DEATH BEFORE CAPTURE. "Dear me." murmured Kitchener.] Other anxioue monienta were He was happy in his death to "What a War Office! Not over the Gallipoli venture, and this extent that in war he had scrap of army and not a pen that specially the withdrawal.— Tofalways hoped for death rather will write !
se matters on the peninsula for than capture. Discussing some bimself mades burried of his narrow escapes of capture
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" What does it matter if I am bottles which they had to pay for. fighters had won Kitchener's shot? I have four brothers," I am afraid I rather disgust the almost startled admiration, and was the protest of the boy old red-tape heads of depart be felt in his very woul bis Prince of Wales when pleading ments. They are very polite, and responsibility for these brave to be allowed to accompany his present one with a volume of men. "I pace my room at night, regiment to France in 1914. their printed regulations, general he told the Prime Minister. And If I were certain you would jy dated about 1870, and intended see the boats fired, at and capsir- be shot, I do not know if I should for Aldershot manoeuvres, and ing, and the drowning men.” be right to testrein you” WAS are quite hurt when I do not want, he saw and he Kitebener é reply. What I can agree to follow their printed rot, agree to the withdrawal. Cn not sllów is the chance--which Petty jealousies and refusals to hay back he called us Cousi exista till we have settled line- give what we want are the order actine, then King of Greeds of the enemy securing you at of the day. Roberts applies for
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