There has been some disappointment that Lord Kitchener should receive only a promotion to full General, since Lord Viscounty and £50,000 in addition to his
berts got an Earldom, a Garter and £100,000 for the accomplishment of a far less dificult task in this war. But it has to be remembered that Viscount Kitchener is still a comparatively young man with perhaps nearly half his military career before him. He is a bachelor, too, and with the £30,000 he received after Khartoum, and tactically no expenses running at home luring the years he has been away. he must now be very comfortably off. He, too, has—
knowing their motives, we can afford to if we except the Irish Nationalists whom, ignore—received unstinted praise from all 1 parties, Even Mr. Lloyd George voted for the grant. Mr. Labouchere and Mr. Cromer were the only two English members who opposed the vote, and they made it clear that they acted on principle and not on personal grounds. The tact which Lord Kitchener displayed during the peace negotiations, awl especially in" his visit to the camp at Vereeniging, has profoundly impressed the nation, and we are already looking forward to the time when he will be Commander-in-Chief of the British Army. Lord Roberts is nut regarded as an unqualified success. He is too much of a society favourite; and it is felt that what is wanted for the carrying out of those army reforms of which the need is sore the strong, firm hand of a man like Kitchener.
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