Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-06-15

entouraee Of him who was as then prince Of
L Wales. now King George V. in Bombay
as the travelling correspondent for Golfers
| Weekly. I had inst come via Borneo. from the
the guest of General Leonard Wood during his
suppression Of Dato AIS Moro uprising in
| Mindanao Nv CHEF ,,rnose in the trin 70 india
was to have a Good talk with Lord Kitchener
then commanded chief Of the Indian army
could claim no originality for such a purpose
| as a simiisr one has doubtless animated every
war corresnondent who has come within reach
| OF him during the last thirty wears And az most
Of them have fs;ied INV Homes wer. MT nar.
| ticularly high, However fortune and the fact
| that the country was not in state of war ia.
yored me
|
AT Simla the commander-in-chief met the
prince Of Wales. and GOT INV FIRST view of him
| at a distance, I stood lust outside the marquee
| under which the prince and princess were re-
ceiyine. Kitchener stood immediately behind the
nr;nce bore in mind ali The tine What Fed
eric V;Iliers had SAID ~ me-. "Remember when
YOU sec him that he Is the most British thing
that ever lived. more 90 than the abbev or The
tower. or Wellington or Nelson No other Eng
lishman was ever so universal. And PERHAPS
that is because he is Irish-French. The only
word to express him is a German one-,nend.
lichkeit"
That night iotted down INV first n,nr.ssions
in the foliow;no worde. "A MIGHTY head cur
mounts eyes rejecting deep passion. He wears
tiona1 but the lace tells dfersnt ~ story G i is
logged with the exorcism Of terrific travail
They saw he Is s,eecbIess but there mrst he
great driving force for such an awful engine.
YOU can look into the power house through his
eyes. One is glazed: looks like glass: evidently
paralvzcd bv the Hundnb bullet This o;ves an
odd effect as though # were looking through
space. with seerl;ke vision The other se,rches
everything to the core These m;smatched ewes
have oueer effect m everybody. thev Get vour
goat They've I;Le PoosevsIts teeth. ~. az
tration goes for the moment and the owner holds
you at temporary disadvantage. He is bit
LOOKS as II India was getting him; ne has
licked Curzon. but how about the climate? An
noyed at the fub-dub of reception stands like
big mastitt in a nursery; afraid to move for
tear OF smashing the toys: Glad didn't speak
to him today; looked as if he'd like to have or
-, week later the prince travelled to Madras.
Inc DAY after he lett sent word to the captain
IN Fort William that l contemplated leaving |
calcutta within forty-eight hours. and that aft
ernoon received return word that if would
call at the following morning Lord Kitchener
would see me-
FIVE minutes before the hour | was in the
captains office and precisely at was ushered
INTO the apartments OF the British Empire, Ex-
hibit No. IL
Instead OF being repelling or gruf, Kitchener
made exactly the opposite impression on me
he seemed like an old shoe-very easy to get |
along with My preconceived notions Of an in
human monster, sort OF Gorgon who ate
newspaper man or two every morning before |
breakfast, rapidly dissipated He seemed more
like country squire with pipe and slippers who
never knew very well how to talk and was afraid
10 trust himself to speech, but who was prince
OF courtesy and with all the time in the world
B..
Ont of the n,ss ~ rot.s mad. tho. ,;ah.
of ali the things Kitchener said 7 c,i The "a
lowing, az being of nert;nert ;ntersst ,fta- H.
lanse Of ten wears and now hat h. IL oom ms
forever. " e0"N
"What will Won do" 7 ,sLsd "ro,v tho. poos.
We will always need and we will always
have soldiers" he replied. They are absolutely
essential IN the highest civilization. Without
the military spirit nations decay The basis of
all sound government is the military spirit AS
tor industrial, commercial, and economic life,
| would say that nothing in it can endure without
the military spirit
You mean discipline, method seniorty?"
No Discipline has just the same relation
to military spirit that the uniform has to man.
It's a supporter, set-oh; that's all. Perhaps
should say the fighting spirit is what mean
Without the fighting spirit naton-or man
is rot.
"ln America you seem to have this fighting
spirit without the military. In industry in COM
merce, on the football field in politics-eyery-
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