There is an amusing story traversing London of a daily paper editor
being summoned to the War Office in connection with an untrue “scare”
story that had been published, cables a correspondent.
He would get another chance, said Lord Kitchener, but on the next
occasion he would be arrested.
“On what charge will you arrest me?” asked the editor.
“I’ll arrest you first,” answered Kitchener of Khartum, “and think about
the charge afterward.”
Is this the mailed fist?