The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-01-23
Campaigning With
Lord Kitchener


In current number OF Bacwoods Magazine appears an
article this subject, written by Staff Officer He says:
Kitchener of the hardest and thinkers
he is always thinking meanderng amess through
wilderness of casual maginngs but thinking up and down and
round and through his subject planning every move foreeeng
every registering every forestang every
demand that when he conducts campaign with that unerrng
certainty that recall the onward march of destiny luck
has had very little to do with the affair for Kitchener has arang
ed that everything shall happen does happen par
ucular and no other.
The gift of overcoming apparently nsuperable difficulties
which the Sdars officers possessed in such marked degree
very largely due to the unbendng severity with which he treated
all failures, whether high low responsible for them
thing ordered had to be DONE and consequently
DONE prevailed for instant So when officer lost
Nile steamer through the stupidity of subordinate he
ruined when the wires failed to Kitchener with his
base at critical moment the young officer charge lost all the
fruits OF his long and mertoous abors If chief acnow
edged more fully and generously good work we'll done
also was ever more unorgvng OF failure to matter what
the failure might be due Once hottest
blazing Soudan ncauiousy reported that ~ had got
sunsroke and therefore execute order Sun
sroke Kitchener REPLIED what the devil does he by hav
ing sunstroke send him down Cairo once However d.
beng friend OF mine wired to him that he under
deuson and quite we'll and the order carried and
nothing heard of the while poor d. lived get
himself handsomely killed before Mafeking.
Much of Kitcheners doubt due his wise
choice of the tools he usedhey really tools rather than
and no finer body of Young fellows ever wore sword than
those splendid officers who worked and shaved him.
day. those Godorsaken sandwept But knows
perhaps fully know the extent to which Kitchen
mplored beseechd cajoed by the highest
employ A or B. c. on his staff anywhere Kitchener
adaman to such requests remember one case of really first
officer who armed with letter from very stri
parsonage almost amounting command that the officer
should be employed The letter duly devered whether
answered say but Kitchener chose his
and other peope and the officer question: after kick
ing his heels in Cairo for several weeks returned London with
out hearing word about employment This happened in hun
dreds Kitchener then the power he and
his mpacabe disregard of the society strength of
character which has always seemed of the greatest
proofs of his fearless independence.
No ever kept his counsel better than Kitchener when
fighting aoot there any leakage of information
because there information leak Once when the
threatened lines of communication expressed
anxiety about which laid for all the world
ground line along the desert gstenng in the and bear
ing meaning dervsh, which is saying good deal.
Kitchener told ride down the river bank and felt
happier down and after dgent search discovered
ond wire cunnngy laid under the bush and sedges AS
about ride back pushing off, and asked the
young engineer officer board what he about turned
that he had personal instructions from Kitchener lay
third line of telegraph the other bank of the Nile and
the but the chief and this young officer had wind of the
Assurance made doubtly but treby al
ways feel confidence amounting certainty that when Kitchen
arrives the bank of the SX he will up with Ber
hon boat under his think of his being dependent the
goodwill of condtioned eyman in the passage of
forbade river is idea that ones mind able to contem
plate for moment