The San Francisco call., 1910-04-07
FAMOUS BRITISH GENERAL
MAKING TOUR OF WORLD
Field Marshal Lord Kitchener
Will Attend Banquet for
Admiral Sebree

travelling in an unostentatious and
simple manner, being accompanied by
only a single servant, Field Marshal
Lord Kitchener of Khartum, one of
the foremost generals of the British
empire, arrived last night on the
Mariposa, which anchored in the bay
and early today he will come ashore
and take up his quarters at the Pal
ace hotel.
Inasmuch as the visit to this coun-
try has no official bearing he will
not be accorded the routine of eti-
quette customary in greeting foreign
visitors of note; but as a mark of
respect to his station his baggage
will be allowed to pass through the
customs without examination.
During the day he win be visited
by members of the English colony
and by General Thomas II. Barry,
commander of the department of
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one of the guests of honor at the
dinner to be given to Admiral Sebree.
An invitation was extended to him
by wireless yesterday afternoon and
an acceptance received late in the
evening. General Barrys visit will
be a purely personal one
we have received no notification
from the war department" said Gen
eral Barry, "of the arrival of Lord
Kitchener, and therefore Judge that
he does not want any official recep-
ton 1 shall call upon him unofti-
cially and shall extend to him any
courtesies he may desire regarding a
visit TO the Presidio and adjacent
parts"
Lord Kitchener comes from Aus
tralia and New Zealand. where he
forces. He will be in San Fran
cisco until April 10, when he will
leave for the east.
Kitchener's career is among the
most brilliant of modern military
men. He is recognized as being
among the few British commanders
who seldom had regrets to report,
and he has worked himself up to
his present position of the hero and
idol Of the British people by a sue
cession of victorious compaigns. He
was born in 1850 and entered the
army in 1871 in the engineers. He
was in the Egyptian campaign of
1882, Nile war of 1884 and in 1898
brought the Sudan campaign to a
successful close at the battle of
Omdurman, which Immediately pre-
ceded the fall of Khartum and the
avenging of General Chinese" Cor
don.
He accompanied Lord Roberts to
the South African war, invented the
system of block houses. and when
. Roberts left the field Kitchener as
sumed entire command. In 1902 he
was appointed commander in chief
of the British forces in India, and
in 1909 commander in chief of those
on the Mediterranean.
In British army circles he is rec
ognized as a martinez of the extreme
type. All of his campaigns have
been marked by a precision and a
detail almost Napoleonic, and those
officers who swerved to the slight
est extent from the standard he set
up were visited with penalties of
the severest sort. His has been a
habit of breaking up cherished Brit
ish traditions in the army.
Among these traditions was one
which allowed a company com
mander to take the field like the
prince. 1t was in force under Cen
eral Butler in the South African
, compaign, but with the coming of
Kitchener the tradition changed with
startling suddenness. In one of his
dispatches during the war he
brought out the fact that some OF
the officers were carrying pianos
} along in their camp equipment.
Kitchener spoke but once, and the
remainder of that campaign lacked
music.
He is the most hated and best
loved man in the English army.
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