The age-herald., 1902-03-16
LORD METHUEN's CAREER.
Handsome General Enjoys Rent Roll
 of $5o,ooo a Year.

Lieutenant General Paul, Lord Me thuen, won distinction in the early part of the war in South Africa, but lost 1t later. He entered the army thirty-nine years ago and was attached to the Scots Guards. In 1873 he was sent to the Gold Coast on special serviceS He served in the Ashanti war in 1874 and was decorated for distinguished gallantry After his service in the field he was called home and appointed military secretary to the commander-in-chief of the forces in Ire land. From 1877 to 1881 he was military attache to the English embassy at Ber- lin and was relieved of that duty to be again promoted. He was made adjutant- general and quartermaster general of the home district and served in the Egyptian war in 1882. While in that country Gen eral Methuen was commandant at head quarters and also at Kassassin and Tel Fl Kebir and was again decorated. In the war in Bechuanaland he had a com mand known as Methuen's Horse. He was given honorable. mention in dis patches for this service.
 General Methuen remained in South Africa, and in 1888 General Butler was appointed commander in chief. Methuen was one of the first of the staff officers selected. The English press gave him credit for gallant and effective opera .tions during the conflict, and he was not caught in the avalanche of public opinion that swept General Butler from his ped estal.
 When Kimberly was invested by the Boers and was being defended by Col onel Kekewich. Cecil Rhodes and a sen- der force. Lord Methuen started out with about 5000 troops to It's relief. The dis tance to Kimberly was about sixty miles, but the Boers contested every inch of the way. and, though driven from their po- stion at Belmont, which was only cap tured after serious British loss, they re- tired In good order to another series of kopjes at Eusln. whence they were dis lodged after similar hard and profitless fighting. The battle of Enslin cost the British 200 killed and wounded.
 The famous Boer general, Cronje, then joined the burghers with his commando from Mafeking, where he had been be- seiging Colonel Baden-Powell. Cronje made such disposition of his forces and so cunningly took advantage of the na- ture of the ground on the Modder River that the crossing of that stream cost the British army many of It's best men. After another hard won contest the Boers were driven back once more to an- ether strong position. General Methuen. in congratulating the troops on their vic- tory, spoke of it as 'the hardest won vic tory in our annals of war and excited much criticism by describing 1t in his dispatches as "one of the bloodiest bat ties ever fought
 At the next battle, Magersfont ein, Me thuen. following his usual fatal system of frontal attacks, sent the ramous High land Brigade practically to destruction. and after hard but intellectual fighting. was compelled to retire to Modder River. Or account of this action General Me thuen was ordered to make no further move, and after Lord Roberts had taken over command of his division, the dis credited general was put in command of a small body of district troops, witf which he did some good worx. capturin,. at one time the force under the Frenci general, villebois de Mareuii. Methuei is the only one of the British general. who saw the beginning of the war. wh has been in service in soutr Africa con. tinuousiy since then.
 On the death of his father, in Iss Handsome Paul Methuen' became peer with rent roll of s5oooo year.