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DETAILS OF
LORD KITCHENER OF KHARTUM,
LORD KITCHENER'S
As Intelligence Officer Kitchener ac- companied Sir Herbert Stewart's desert column and you may he sure that the utter breakdown of transport which The following is a “pes pieture" of must in any case have marred that Lord Kitchener, when he was Major-heroje folly was not unnoticed by him.
A PEN PICTURE
Sirdar of Egypt, written by Mr. G. W Steevens and published in his book With Kitchener to Khartum," It is still regarded as the best portrait ever given of the famous soldier and will be Pe-read now with patholic interest.
THE BIRDAR,
Major General Sir Horatio Herbert Kitchener la forty-eight years old by the book; but that is irrelevant. He stands reteral inches over six feel straight as lance, and looks out imperiously abore most men's beads; his motions are de liberate and strong; slender but armly knit, be seeuls built for tireless, steel
wire endurance rather than fo, power or agility. that also is irrelevant. Steady passionless eyes shaded by decisive brows, brick-red rather full cheeks, a long moustache beneath which you diytas an immovable mouth; his face is a and neither appeals for affection stirs dislike. All this is irrelevant too neither age, not figure, or face, to any accident of person, has any hearing on the essential Sirdar. You could imagine the character just the same if all the externals were different. las no age but the price of life, body but one to carry his mind, no fare but one to keep his brain behind. The brain and the will are the essence and the whole of the man -- a brain and a will so perfect in their workings that, in the face of extremest dificulty, they
as
A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.
The late Lord Kitcheuer first came into prominence by his work in connection with the reorganisation of the Egyptian, army, and the re-conquest of the Boucian,
CAREER.
ADMINISTRATOR RATHER THAN A SOLDIER.
A CRITICISM OF LORD KITCHENER.
Kitchener has never once been right
General Sir Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Afterwards, through the long deende of After the state of anarchy which cul during this war is a statement that has little fights that made the Egyptian minated in the occupation of Egypt by been mate and one that is fairly typical of many others made by those whom one army, Kitchener was fully employed the British, the Egyptian Government In 1887 d 1859 he commanded at. Sukim, and it is remarkable that his was obliged to relinquish all pretensions writer terms the devotees, of the sport of Kitchener baiting. He was wrong about most important enterprise «ens half a to their suzerainty over the Soudan until
shells machine guns, recruiting, the failure. He attacked Osman Digna at brighter times should dawn. Tus iden Handab, when most of the Emir's men
it, however, was never were away raiding and although he of recovering succeeded in releasing a number of capabandoned, for it was recognised that Dardanelles, and a host of other import- lives, he thought it well to retire, himself- wounded in the face by a bullet, without whoever held the sources of the Nile had at details, these glib eritics joer~ Bome any decisive success. The withdrawal Egypt at his meres Lord Kitchener, of this ray casily be true, but a total tic figure on this score would seem il- was in no way discreditable, for his who was appointed Sirrian in 1830, condemnation of England's most romanu force was a jumble of irregulars and lerfes without discipline. But it is not steadily carried out his plans for an nd-
vance, or for winning the Soudan hack udvised. As many have agreed, “K. of 1. is all important as a symbol to the perhaps fanciful to believe that the Sirdar, who has never given hatile with out making certain of an winihilating from the terrors of Mahdiism, and be
and pluck-the bulldog policy in which victor, hus not forgotten his experience saw the full fruition of his hopes at the British public of British determination of liaphazard Bashi Bazouking at Han: battle of Omdurman on September 201 Ind
He had his revenge before the end of 1995, when the Dervishes were swept away politicians would rightly teach their fol- 1883, when he fed a brigade of Sudanese in the thousands by the deadly fire of towings to have faith since it has su often pulled the nation out of a morass of over Osman's tranches at Gemaizeh. Next year at Toshi he again commanded the Anglo-Egyptian army which he com- n brigade. In 1800 he succeeded Sir manged. Referring to the selection of blunders. The English people have set Francis Grenfell as Sirdar That he oratio Herbert Kitchener to sow up un image and labelled it “Kitchener, meant to be Birdar in fact as well as snapi he showed in 1894. The young mand the forces that were sent to achieve declares Sydney Brooks in the New York Khedive travelled south to the frontier this work, Lord Cromer, the British Times Its chief characteristic is an air and took the occasion to insult every Bri Agent General in Egypt said of "you-bo-damnedness dear to the honre promptly gave battle: he resigned crisis, beteg, bugeties sedently and exclusive of the average Englishman. “Silont came, and tho Khediye whe obliged to do Young, energetic, public pentance by issuing a Generally devoted to his profession, and, as the strength is a sort of ideal to these Order in praise of the discipline of the honourable scars on his face testify, ex- people, and if it is often attributed by army and of its British officers. Two perienced in Soudanese warfare. Si them to silent inefficioney no permanent Heyears later he began the re-conquest of Herbert Kitchener possesses all the quali
the Sudan, Without a single throw-back ties necessary to bring the campaign to harou seems to result. But Mr. Brooks - no the work has gone forward since hat mecessful issue. Like any anotlier goes further than merely to defend Kit
chener on the grounds of his usefulness af not without intervals. The Sirdar is military commander the bonds which never in a hurry. With immovable self united him and his subordinates were
romantic figure. He attacks the asser control he holds back from each step till those of stern discipline on the one side, the ground is consolidated under the and, on the other, the respect due to tion of his blunderings, and, admitting last The real fighting power of the Sudan les in the country itself-in its superior talent, and the confidence felt barrenness which refuses food, and its in the resourcefulness of a strong and that he has erred, maintains that he is vastness which paralyses transport. The masterful spirit, rather than an affection- not given credit for the turret decisions Budan machine obviates barrenness and ate obedience yielding to the behests of
azenial chief. Bir Herberte bus made. vastuess the bayonet action stands still until the railway action has piled the Kitchener's great merit was that he left can run with a full Nile. Fighting men rate military administrator, every detail do and loing it is precision is so may chafe and go lawn with typhoid of the machine which he had to work and cholera: they are in the iron grip of received adequate attention. Before any the machine, and they must wait the turn decisive movement was made each portion Luhumanly unerring, he is more like a machine than a man. You feel that he of its wheels. Dervishes wait and won- of the machine was adapted so far as ough: to be patented and shown with der passing from apprehension to secur human foresight could provide to per And he was not less right in calling upon pride at the Paris International Exhibiy The Turks are not coming the form its alloted task Sir Herbert the men of England to enlist by the mil Turks are afraid. Then suddenly at Kitchenor also possessed another quality tion. British Empire Exhibit No. I, daybreak one morning they see the Sir which is rare among soldiers, and which lion while those around him were pori- hare concines, the Sudan Machine dar advancing upon them from all sides was of special value under the circumtive that it couldn't be done." On those together, and by noon the relentles, shat aravagance was the necessary hand two fundamental points, at any rate, bu Patient and
maid of efficiency. On the contrary, he saw straight and clear, and I do not know Solls as a rigid economist, and, whilst makwho, if not he, could have built up from: In the meantime, during all the years ing adequate provision for all that was nothing the machinery for training the of preparation and achievement, the many has disappeared. The mus Herbert Kit essential and necessary, he suppressed
waste and extravagance have passed or are passing through the chener owns the affection of private with a firm band any tendency towards 3,000,000 or 4,000,000 raw recruits who friends in England and of old contrades Lord Kitchener a next fold of activity military mili. That is a definite achiev--- it 19.8 whole of fifteen years standing for the rest of the world there is no man Herbert was in South Africa as Chief of Staff to Kitchence, but only the Sirdar, neither Lord Roberts, upon whose return to Engment with which, if you take asking affection or giving it His land he succeeded as Conmander in Chief and do not look too closely into the details, officers and men are wheels in the rua of the British forces, and although owing the most captious critic will find it difi- to the fact that the organised resistance
cult to quarrel. he he feeds them enough to make then veient and works them as ner of the Boers had already been crushed cilessly as he works himself. He will there was not much opportunity for big have no married officers in his army spectacular work, Lord Kitchener ad partly because of his ignorance of Eng- marriage interferes with work. Any offi-dressed himself with his customary
never scent to know what struggle is. You cannot imagine the Sirdar other
A THREE YEARS' WAR..
wise than as seeing the right thing, to can with supplies or the steamer actions ittle as possible to chance 1 first He was conspicuously right in anti.
It was uplly said of him by one who had closely watched him in his office, and in the field, and at mess, that he is the sort of felier that ought to be made manager of the Army and Navy Stores, The aphorist's tastes lay perhaps in the direction of those more genial virtues which the Sirdar does not possess, yet the judgment summed him up perfectly. He would be a splendid manager of the There are Army and Navy Stores.
desperare hope that some who
he
may some day be appointed to sweep ont the War Office. He would be a splendid manager of the War Office. He would be a splendid manager of anything.
But it so happens that he has turned
the Sadan machine southward.
and
cipating a war that would last at least three years, when most of the experts were sure it would be over in six months,
Where Kitchener has failed it has been
cer who breaks down from the climate thoroughness to the task of wearing down | lish conditions, partly because, being a goes on sick leave once next tinie he the Boer resistance and restricting their glutton for work and a natural autocrat, goes, and the Egyptian army bears hiar activities by a system of bluckhouses, ho has tried to do too much himself, and on its strength no more. Asked once why Eventually, when peace proposals were he did not let his officers come down to being discussed. Lord Kitchener's tactful Cairo during the season, he replied. If dealing with the Boer Generals in credit it, were to go home, where they woulded with Earing overcome the opposition
partly because his is not by any means a arst class mind. I was discussing this with one of his fellow Ministers- man point about three weeks ago in Londui
himself to the management of war inget fit and I could get more work out at then met with whose training and instincts have been.
the Sudan, and he is the complete and
them I would. But why should I let Lord Kitchener's next appointment them down to Cairo?" It is anamiable,
but it is war, and it has a severe magni was to the command of the British forces the very opposite of Kitchener's who has ficence. And if you suppose, therefore, in India, where his disagreement with a singular gift of dispassionate adg that the Sirdar is unpopular, he is not. Lord Curzon us in the military control ment No general is unpopular who always beats in that Empirn led to the Viceroy's r
A GREAT MAN.
the only master of that art. Beginning life in the Royal Engineers a soil reputed more favourable to machinery than to human nature--he early furned the enemy When the columns move out signation in 1903. Lord Kitchener rẻ The people," he said, "believe" "K. tu
of camp in the evening to march all organised the Indian army, and he left be a grent soldier. He is nothing of
India in 1909 amid a chorus of enthukind. He is a good organizer and a hard. to the study of the Lerant. He was one
night through the dark, they know not, of Beaconsfield's military vice-consuls whither, and fight at dawn with ansiastic approval, to be eventually up-worker, but the real bent of his mind and in Asia Minor; he was subsequently enemy they have never seen, every man pointed a Field Marshal. Subsequently temperament is toward diplomacy. He director of the Palestine Exploration goes forth with a tranquil wind He he was made Commander-in-Chief in the is half-Irish and half-Asiatic. He would may personally come back and he inay Mediterranean, but as this position offer make a better Prime Minister than Sec- Fund. At the beginning of the Sulan not, but about the general result there is, ed to scope for his restless activity, heretary for War. As a colleague I like troubles be appeared.
He was one of not a doubt. You bet your boots the Sir-speedily vacated it. For some little time him He is pleasant, considerate, and dar kuows: he wouldn't fight if he it was thought that his services would be far more talkative than I had expected to the original twenty-five officers who set weren't going to win Other generals lost to the British army, and there was and him. But, also, he is stupidpene
none was eier some talk of his joining the directorate stupid isn't quite the world. to work in the new Egyptian army. have been better
of certain railways in England. For trable! That's it. Occasionally you will And in Egypt and the Sudan he has better trusted.
For of one human weakness the Sirtunately, however, this was averted by his strike from him sparks that surprise you boen ever since on the staff generally, dar is believed not to have purged hun selection to the post of Ministers Pleni- flashes that make you say to yourself? in the field constantly, alone with natives self-ambition. He is on his promotion pointiary and Agent General in Egypt. This man, affer all, is not so dull as he often, mastering the problem of the man who cannot afford to make a mis In this capacity he showed himself to be seems No other soldier that I know of take. Homilies against ambition may be an able and tactful administrator by could have said what he has just said. Sudan always. The ripe harvest of left to those who have failed in their securing the respect, as well as the cop And then, just when you have been en-
wn: the Sirdar, if apparently purely
fidence, of the native community, for atcouraged to expect something really illu fifteen years is that he knows everything personal, is legitimate and even lofty the time of his appointment the country minating, he falls back into his normal that is to
to be learned of his subject. He He has attained eminent distinction at other and profited by the errors of an exceptionally early age he has com showed signs of restlessness and it was what did I say yes, impenetrable self evident that a strong fann was wanted. And at such times you can get nothing others and by their successen He has minded victorious armies at an age when oder his rem, also, important steps out of him and put nothing in. But inherited the wisdom and the Achieve most then are hoping to command regi
the flashes that shocked you for a moment ments of his predecessors,He came at ments, Even now a junior Major were taken in the direction of popular all the same you remember the sparks and the right hour, and he was the right General, he has been entrusted with an representative Government. man
army of six brigades, a cominand such it was while he was home on leave in into realizing that he is really a great Captain I.E., he begins in the Egyp- a few of his seniors have ever led in the the summer of 1914 that the present war man." tian army as second-in-command of a fold. Finally he has been charged with broke out, and the minds of the public I hardly, however, think it likely that regiment of esvalry. In Wolseley's mission such as almost every one of instantly turned to him in the crisis Hehe will stay much longer at the Wa campaign he was Intelligence Officer them would have greedily accepted the was just about to return to Cairo when Office. His work there is pretty well crowning triumph of hall a generation's alrigeal newspaper agitation led to done; and there is another, and in many 3 p.m.--Austion of Crown Land at Publis During the summer of 1884 he was awak Naturally he has awakened jual bis 50 and appointment as Secretary ways a more familiar, scene of action that
Korosko, negotiating with the Ababdeh sheiks in view of an advance across the ousies, and he has bought permission to of State for War, the office which the demands his presence. We are fighting desert to Abu Hamed, and note how take each etep on the way only by el Prime Minister was temporarily holding two or three Middle Eastern wars, as well characteristically he has now bettered liant success in the last If in this after the retirement of Colonel Seeley as the war in Europe. We are engaged misunderstandings on the Tigris ad Euphrates, in the Bal the then abandoned project by going he be not so stiffly unbending to the that way to Berber and Khartum him as he is to the low, who shall blame he which had arisen with the military in Lane, in Persia, in Arabia, and Syria,“ connection with and on the banks of the Nile, and there self- only with a railway! The idea of He has climbed too high not to take land. His work
l-known to need any is still an open account with the Germans the advance across the desert he took every precaution against a falle
But he will not fall, just yet at any reference. He achieved the stupendous in East Africa. These operations are sub- over from Lord Wolesley, and indeed Tron immemorial Arab caravans and rate. So far as Pgypt is concerned het of raising & new army of alose sidiary to, and yet in a sense apart from then, for his own stroke of insight is the man of destine the man who has
as it is called, and this fact alone will host of military and diplomatic problems For Anglo-Egypt he and resolution amounting to genius, be been preparing hindit sixteen year for upon 5,000,000 men, Kitchener's Army the main thestre of war, and they raise i rank as one of the greatest achievements peculiarly their own Carrying them on turned a raid into an irresistible certain one great purpose P conquest,
by superseding camels with is the Mahdi, the expected; the man who
has sifted experience and corrected in connection with the world war Hasimultaneously from London has been the railway. Others had thought of tors who has worked at an untimely death will cast a gloom over the proved an unsatisfactory method. Caim the desert route the Sirdar, connecting and waited for great; tuarble to sit still whole of the British Empire who will is the obvious contre at which these varing
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projected desert railways the Birdar and fire to amite steadfast, cold, and in- have la mourn one of England's greatest gated threads meet. And nobody's pre but the blow is a heavy from the Balkans to Afghanistan 93 Lord rasde one. That, summarised in one flexible the man who has cut out his Foldiers and administrators He died in seace at Cairo would carry such weight
Kitchener instance, is the working of the Budan human heart and made himself a ma harness it is w and quite, 1 chine to retake Khartum
archine.