Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-05-24
WHY KITCHENER never WE'D
Famous Soldier Who Favors q west
Point Academy In Australia.

Famous. Soldier Who Favors . West
Point Academy In Australia.
Field Marshal Lord Horatio Herbert
Kitchener, who recently visited West
Point. ia one Of the foremost soldiers
in the world Of today and Is known
to his brother officers as *. of X"
kitchener Of Khartum>.
The establishment of an institution
IN Australia similar to West Point Is
a net scheme of his lordship, and In
company with. Colonel Scott he WAS
taken through the cadet barracks and
the various academic departments.
where everything was fully explained.
The noted soldier has explained to
some of his friends in New York that
he has been wrongfully classed as :
woman hater. He has never married
chiefly because Of his firm conviction
that a man can't be a very good hus.
band and soldier at the same time.
During his first campaigns In Egypt
as sirt1ar, 1892 to 1895. when there was
continuous fighting on the Sudan from.
tier, he had frequent occasion to dis
patch officers from Cairo hurriedly to
the front. Many Of them lived With
their wives at Shepherds or the Con-
tinental hotel. The women came with
fearful pleading to request the COM
mander in chief to send any one to be
killed by the dervishes except their
husbands.
The sirdar finally decided to send
back all the married British officers to
the imperial forces and keep only the
bachelors in the Egyptian service.
Since that period he has made point
Of getting rid Of his star officers di.
rectly they became husbands.
When Captain Fred Jones returned
to st. John. N. B.. from the Boer war
ne was asked by his friends If he had
seen Lord Kitchener. He replied that
he had. but that their chat was some
what brief.
1T was like this" said the captain.
II had received my marching orders
from home and did not wish to leave
until l had seen the commander in
chief, of whom I had heard SO much.
I asked a horse gunner If he could d.
rect me to ks tent. and he told me
where to 60.
Il followed the instructions and.
looking through m opening in the can
vas. saw Il tall man. who badly needed
a shave. sitting at small table smok-
ing a short clay pipe and writing dis
patches. He wore riding boots. KHAKI!
breaches and a gray flannel shirt.
II went back to the horse gunner
and accused him Of TESTING, as ! felt
sure that the man l had seen. could
not,be Lord Kitchener. HE swoFe thaF
he was. however. and l went back to
the tent aud walked in. When the tall
man looked up from his writing said.
Lord Kitchener, l presume" He re-
piled tersely: Yes. Who are you? I
answered, I am Captain Fred Jones Of
the Canadian militia He said, Well,
get out Of here and came away"
When Lord Roberts was commander
in chief in South Africa, with Lord
Kitchener as chief Of stafr, a colonel of
the Royal engineers was sent for to
ind out how long it would take him
to build a bridge across the Modder
river. After leaving Lord Roberts
tent the colonel was stopped by Kitch-
ener, who inquired when the bridge
would be ready. The colonel replied
airily that he thought it might be done
In three weeks. )
If we don't have that bridge ready
In seven days, colonel" said Lord
Kitchener quietly, I'VE shall have to
send you home" The bridge was