GERMANY AND THE LOSS OF LORD KITCHENER.
[TO THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR."]
Sia,—As the lamentable loss of Lord Kitchener and his Staff is liable to be hailed in Gormany—at least by the vulgar crowd (which is large, I fear)—as a welcome though tardy stirring of the hand of their Goff in answer to their continual curse of "strafe England !" let us leek a moment at this aspect. What is the "strafe England !" cry but cursing pure and simple ? Who curses but the man who is too weak to maztor and knows it ? Did God ever kill a dog because an angry, coarse- mouthed fellow damned it ? Shall He kill England—or one of her citizens—because Germany damns her ? What is the effect of the loss of this great man on us ? Do we not doubly strive and train our- selves to be like him? Are the mass of us not morally arid actually the bettor ? Is the nation not the more glorious in his death 2—I am, Sir, &c.,
B.E.F. AN Omosa.
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