3 JUNE 1916, Page 2

That, in our opinion, is a sound defence. Lord Kitchener

has literally worked miracles in raising, equipping, and training men, and, as the Prime Minister pointed out, in doing this so quickly and with so extraordinarily small an amount of friction. If the controlling brain behind the Army had not been one possessed of a large fund of practical sense, things would almost certainly have been done which would greatly have annoyed the civil population. Remember that Lord Kitchener had to break in a mob of wild horses of a high-mettled breed with lightning speed and with a set of rough riders many of whom had never ridden before, and had to be taught their job in the intervsla of doing it.