Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-08-16

men. gives place. in "tne River War
10 the critical point o. TirW OF III" mill.
tary expert. and in his two books OF
the Roer W;1' 10 the rapid Expressions
of the joura fiSi. In THESE latter books
he tells You of BATTLES he has seen. il
the first one he made You see them.
For his service with the Aialaknnl
ileli force he received the campaign
medal with clasp. and. i'm dispatches
Brisadier General Jeffeeys praises "tht
cnufage ANA RESOLUTION OF Lieutenant
W. L. $. Churchill. Fourth ~llussars
with the force rs correspondent OF tins
'Pioneer.'r
k;ad. he at one Joined Sir William
l.ochhast as orderly %o,iceY, and with
the Ilrah expeditions went through tina
campaign.
For this his Indian medal gained y
second clasp.
This was in the early part of 1898. II
spite OF the time taken up as an officer
and as a correspondent, he ipishcd his
book on the Malakanu expedition. and
then. rs it was evident Kitchener would
soon attack khartum. he jumped across
to Egypt and again as Il correspondent,
took part in the advance upon that city
Thus. in one year. he had seen ser
vice IN three campaigns.
ON the day of the battle his luck fol-
" MN NittIltlltI lltu dttstcntt
hlm to the Twenty-first L.ancers, and
IT Will be remembered the event of the
battle was the charge made by that
squadron. 1t was no canter, no easy
p~ig-stickinS." ii was ii fight to get in
n Il fiSht to get out. with frenzied
followers of the khalifa hanging on the
bride reins. hacking at the horses
hamstrings, n slashing and firing
point blank at The troopers. Churchill,
was in that charge. He received the
medal with clasp.
Then he returned home and wrote
The River War" This book is the last
word on the campaigns up the Nile
From the death of Gordon in khartum
to the capture of the city by Kitchener
fights. the wearying failures. the many
expeditions I'm to the hot. boundless des-
ert. the long. slow progress toward the
final winning OF the Sudan.
The book made n distinct sensation
1T was a work that one would expect
from a lieutenant general, when, after
years of service in Egypt. he laid down
his sword to pen the story of his life's
work. From Il second lieutenant, who
had been on the Nile hardly long
enough to gain the desert tan, it was
Il revelation. AS "A contribution to mill
tnry history it was SO valuable that for
the author il made many admirers. but
on account of his criticisms of his SUI
perior officers it gained him even more
enemies.
This is "A specimen of the kind of
thing that caused the retired army Off
Ger To sit UP and choke With apopleXy:
"General Kitchener, who never spares
himself. cares little Cor others, He
treated all men like machines. from the
private soldiers. whose sllutes he dis
no ,iriGlv con,rollad Tbo .,,nr,aa v,hn
Ma served vim him ,rd noIar hin, foy
many vears in mace ana nail was
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l.!'l.' me Vessians asked each other
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'pH'ii'S %. enc ~ 'neif own sat
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''i' ""ch Il iiNutfh3hAt ol ~HHh'H-lotf
'"H .,if-"ti.i" tlr 'ohi:'ahoin% gen
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10 ihe newspapers hundrecs of them.
over ,E"if own signatures. on the serv-
-" ia' STATIONERY. Wr"'e violent, fu-
iioHS le''efS. ANA the newspapers
'neAiSel'eS' BESIDE the ordinary re-
.l'"'' saNe - me DOCK cditoFlal praise
ahu cu,,o'ia' CONFORMATION;
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oi''efS on inc service. IheN nick
iainei ms book n SubalternS Advice
10 .'elerais. ilin called 'hurchill him
sen Medai Snat'ner. n medal
shatcher Is an "flcer VINO. Whenever
lhere IS Il rulnor OF war, leaves his men
4" the care OK any one. and through in
iluence IN hlgh places ana for the sake
OF tne medal has himself
a~llached TO the eNpeditionary force.
ltu' 'hurchill was never IA medal
nunter; Inc routine OF barrack life
irked MN. n IN foreign parts he
served ms ountry FAR better than by
remaining at nome and inspecting awk-
ward squads n attending guard
mount. indeed. the war office could
cover with medals tho man who wrote
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