Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-22
KITCHENER ISN'T
EVEN A SOLDIER,
CRIES THE PRESS
Savage Attacks Upon Field Marshal
by Newspaper for His Conduct
of War.
DAILY MAIL is MOST VIOLENT
Tory Organ Hints it May Be Neces-
sary to Make Him Dictator
Of England.
DAILY NAIL Is MOST VIOLENT
SEES ASSAULTS BOOMERANG

LONDON, May 21.--one of the
most remarkable features of the
ministerial crisis in Great Britain at
the present moment is the sudden
outbreak, more or less severe, of
newspaper attacks upon Field Mar
shall Earl Kitchener, the British sec
retary of war, who at the outbreak
of host lities was the nations mill
tary idol.
The Daily Mail and other now spapcrs
under the same ownership have been
most violent IN their attacks The Daily
Mail says:
Not a soldier.
at never has been presented that
Kitchener is a soldier in the sense that
Field Marshal Sir John French is a SOL
dier Kitchener is a gatherer OF men,
and a very fine gatherer. too. but his
record In tho South African war as a
fighting general. apart from his excel
lent organizing work as chief of staff,
was not brilliant.
Nothing in Kitchener's experience
suggests that he has the qualifications
campaign in the field. and we can only
hope that no such misfortune will befall
this nation as that he should be per-
mitted TO Interfere with the actual
strategy OF this gigantic war"
same She'll RS Used for Beers.
Proceeding 10 accuse Lord Kitchener OF
having ordered the wrong kind OF
she'll" the Daily Mail asserts that "des-
pite repeated warnings that a high ex-
plosive shell was required. Lord Kitchen.
ner persisted in sending shrapnel such as
he used against the Beers. thus causing
the deaths, Of thousands of British soldiers
and Incidentally bringing about cabinet
! crisis"
The Times in an editorial says; ''ouI
armies in the field require relntorcements
and shells OF the right kind. Neither has
been provided in adequate quantities for
the simple reason that Lord Kitchener
orders we're given too late, Plain warn
| ings were disregarded and the nation was
lulled into a false security by misleading
official reports, with the result thar
| thousands Of British lives were sacrificed
in an unequal contest
| why Trouble Arose.
THE whole trouble arose because Lord
Kitchener assumed a burden to which nc
man could have proved equal"
While some newspapers are calling for
Lord I1itchener's retirement. other or
gans like the Morning Post and the Daily
News protest that q dead set has
been made against him. The Morning
Post says:
The new government will not likely be
30 foolinsh as TO throw over the man
whose presence has held the confidence
of the nation and OF our fighting forces
since the beginning OF the war"
The Daily News protests in the strong
EFT language against what IL terms a
press campaign against Lord Kitchener
"organized by some OF the newspapers
who at :he beginning OF the war forced
him upon the country"
The Stock exchange held a meeting to-
day in support of Earl Kitchener. A
resolution was adopted unanimously eX-
pressing confidence In the war secretary
and strong indignation at the vehemoui
attacks on him" by a part of the press
The members of the exchange then
formed ring. piled large number Of
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