6 OCTOBER 1900, Page 19

Mr. Bennet Bnrleigh tells in the Daily Telegraph of Monday

an excellent story of Lord Kitchener. A certain Yeomanry commander whilst on parade rated his men in unmeasured terms. Nothing was right that the troopers did. They sat their horses wrong, they moved unlike machinery, Sec., and were "no better than a d— rabble," "a lot of gutter snipes," &c. "That," said Lord Kitchener, who came up, "is not the way to address men. They are not a d— rabble, but soldiers, and to be spoken to as such. No troops can be trained in that fashion, and the commander who does not respect his men is unable to lead them." The whole force, we are told, heard the observation, and the men were as decorously elated as the Yeomanry officer was obviously crestfallen.