The times., 1898-09-11
TRIUMPHlIN THE SOUDAN.
England Will Appropriately Honor
Gen. Kitchener.

London, Septg l0.-London has dragged
through another week Of sweltering heat.
September. generally SO cool and refresh
ing in England, provided yesterday the
hottest day in all the year. 81 IL degrees
in the shade and 126 in the sun. Yet the
cricket season already is over, and foot
ball, England'si Winter game begins to-
day.
The day before yesterday the metropolis
lay beneath the heavy pail of an abomin-
able mixture of London November fog.
with the intense heat of June. The sol
diers who yesterday returned from the
maneuvers on Salisbury Plain are re-
duced to living skeletons by the blazing
sun.
Her politicians London has packed off
| to the grouse-moors and the fishing rivers
of Scotland. Only one remains, Mr.. Ar
thur Balfour. From early morn till late
| at night he has been closeted at the for
efgn office for hours, and even days to-
| gether. He has been with Count Hatz-
| feldt, the German ambassador, and gen.
orally has been doing more in the way of
| practical diplomacy In one month than
/ i1oAN hodfSDuEy IUdndGeU 10 eiteCt III liS
whole year. His one and only relief is
| cycling, and after Big Ben at Westminster
| has rung out midnight ne may be seen in
| light, airy costume and with golf-cap on
| head, calmly cycling round West End
| squares and parks
When the public sees before 1t the gath
| cred fruit of these weeks of Mr. Balfour's
| arduous TOLL while all the rest of the
! world has been reclining at rest, 1t will
be surprising IL the demand for his APP
1 pointment as foreign secretary does not
sweep away the personal obstacles and
cabinet jealousies which now block the
way to his advancement.
| England is bursting with pride over
| Gen. Kitchener's victory at omdurman.
| 1t is an effective answer 10 recent sneers
at the decadence of Tommy Atkins 1t is,
| too, peculiarly gratifying TO Englishmen
| as distinct from Scotchmen and Irishmen.
! So much of the glory of Dargai and other
recent military triumphs has gone to the
/ Highlanders that II is quite refreshing 10
see an unkilted battalion like the Twenty
| first Lancers covered with glory
Gen. Kitchener will have a triumphant
welcome. Parliament probably will vote
| the nations thanks and request the
| queen to confer a peerage upon him. Gen.
| Kitchener can hardly refuse, but his
natural tastes are far simpler. His best
! friend in the world, probably, is an old
| family servant to whom the great man
| is still simply 'Bertie" and with whom
| he never fails to take homely kitchen tea,
| whenever visiting England
| All through this arduous campaign the
| Sirdar has shown rare precision and pa
tience with military knowledge of the
| highest order. His first and only blunder,
perhaps, is that INTO which he has been
led by the heated patriots here in Lon
| don who, this week, have been plastering
Gen. Gordon's 4afue in Trafalgar Square
with such phrases as Avenged at last
| Gen. Kitchener's general order to the
| army, published today, also talks OF the
victory as "wonhily avenging Gordon
| Upon this Radical journal says today:
| THE conquering civiliZer of Darkest
| Africa sets his mission down to the bar
barous creed OF IL. 900 lives for one life.
| How Gordon himself would have shud-
! dered at this gospel of revenge!"
| But there is far more than the mere
/ sense of revenge in England's rejoicing
| over OmdurmanQ 1t marks a decisive step
/ forward in the realization of the British
| ideal in Africa, the red cross of empire
| from the Cape to Cairo, the Niger to the
Nile ideal, towhich Mr.. Rhodes has COM
| pletely won oyer1Mr. Chamberlain and the
| ministry genegallys 81
| The railway andsshe plant which SO ma
| terially helped Gem Kitchener are to form
| part of Mr.. Rhodes's Cairo to Cape Rail-
| way, and the Anglo-German understand
| ing doubtless will make the way clear for
| a railway south from Khartoum while il
| is understood that the British treasury
| has been induced by Mr.. Chamberlain to
| make a conditional guarantee of capital
| for the next section from Tanganyika TO
| Buluwayo, whence line already runs TO
/ the cape.
/ In the East Germany has promised COM
| plaisance when England exercises her op-
tion over Delagoa Bay. leaving President
| Kruger high and dry with no access TO
| the sea, except by the grace of England
] Thus are Mr.. Rhodess plans maturing
| How quick the Englishman is to accom-
| modate himself TO new conditions is
| shown by the fact that Cook & Son the
| tourist agents, this week guaranteed an
| adventurous traveller to place him and
| wife in Khartoum within a fortnight from
| London.
| Englishmen would much like to know
| whether Mr.. Chamberlain did or did not
| say in all seriousness. the strange things
| put into his mouth in the New York in
| terview, reproduced at length in the
| Times on Friday. The Birmingham Post
| which. as Mr.. Chamberlain's personal or
| gan. should recognize the masters voice.
! speaks of the incredible interview" and
IL
| which Mr. Chamberlain appears to have
fed his interviewers." What Mr. Cham
berlain Is reported as saying regarding
| Anglo-Saxon cooperation is what to
| quote Mr.. Chamberlain himself nine hun
| dred and ninety-nine Englishmen out of
| every thousand feel. but one hears many
| queries today whether IT is wise for a
| British statesman to show too great
| eagerness in this direction just now As
| one ministerial journal says, 1t reads too
| much like you have only to say, snip >
| and we shall say, snap, without being at
| all particular"
The Moslem outbreak in Crete is gener-
ally accepted as Lord Salisburys oppor-
| tunity. So long as the Cretans only killed
| one another, the British ministry might
stand Idly by, but it is quite another thing
when they take to killing British High
landers. Lord Salisbury, or, rather Mr.
| Balfour, now has occasion to insist on
the Turkish troops clearing out. England
must repeat Mr.. Gladstone's 'bag-and-
baggage policy, and may perhaps find
means to induce the concert to accept an
other Kitchener to act the sagacious po-
liceman there
If the European powers cannot agree to
the point of action in Crete, what hope is
there of agreement over ,ne Cars colos-
sal peace proposals? The Daily Chroni-
Gle, by the way, has started a crusade
to induce British churches to make the
Cars course their own and agitate for
cordial British co-opeTation.
Apart from Omdurman, the sensation of
the week has been Sir William Crookes S
presidential address before the British
Association meeting at Bristol. AS, twen-
ty-three years ago. Prof Jevons predicted
a great world coal famine, Prof. Crookes
now declares THAI within thirty years the
| h-aa 4 90 tinxr nnoy1les Of the world will be