10 JUNE 1916, Page 15

LORD KITCHENER AND HIS TRADUCERS.

You, who with poisoned pen and art malign So long have striven his power to undermine, Now that a crafty and relentless foe Has laid the greatest of our War Lords low, Have yet the sickening impudence to bewail The man you clawed with daily tooth and nail I "Judas despairing died, his guilt confessed " : You live, and with fresh falsehood clean your breast.

But there are Englishmen who hold more vile

Than Hunnish shark the home-brei crocodile. G.