The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-11

"" WaS learning a difficult trade.
d'alug with shreud Arab chiefs. mas
tcrins details Of desert travel and bet
tcrin2 them. II was ono of Great
Hritain's grabbing inroads AID two at
tclnpts upon The tribesmcn had met
with slaughter. The Mahdi was then
AT the summit Of his power III the
Sudan. iiis duties now took him to
SiIkim or tho Rcd Sea littoral. and he
remained for two years IN sole COM
manl during most of the time. His
irSi attack on osrian pigna AZ IAN
Ter of captiNcy. u the Arabs gavc
him = rough handling and he was
wounded in tho face. In 1855 he led
calamity IN another campaign against
tsin5n.
TN Sir Francis GrcnfcllS recall in
1897 Kitchener was made Sirdar. that
l. commander IN chief Of the Egyptian
~furces. The unfortunate p~rcdicInert
"f nen. Gordon st khartum, brought
about largely bv Ills own oh stinacy.
vas long the sentimental centre U.
VI glands interest In the Sudan. Ami
able. ."vahle as the man was. he had n
positive genius for making himself
misunderstood. This undoubtedly had
som thing TO do with tho failure to
,Lkc adequate measures 10 relieve him.
The failure Of many efforts followed.
NJ last came tho news If h;. death a.
the hand Of tho Mahdists. II va
h"nccfurth ~scntin,enialiv n question OF
cNeng- but with a man like the new
Sirlir the sentimental thinSs might
wait.
The larger British question Of con.
si"'t. though IN the name Of Egypt.
u" set out - solve. Never VAS a man
letter chosen than he for this formi-
f'tic task. II was one ~ Englani's
.iitt,s vdrs," u is true. but the condi-
tar called for something more than
;nc mere dash that had hitherto bc,n
| thought sufficient.
No mean antagonists we're these
: Arabs Of the Mahdi or his succe ssor.
They were ,he Fuzzy Nuzzies who
hrok" a British square without a gun.
and sew with spear and knife until
they themselves were slain. They had
allies in hot climate. baking winds and
t RENTAL rains and flies and fieas.
miasmatiC marshes and towns filled
With fever germs that slcw their hun.
dreds. Another great ally they had
ras distance.
The positive n for detail. his
..Gld discipline. his working assiduity.
Compelling work IN others. were telling.
tie conceived a plan for the capture Of
hhartum which involved the building
"f hundreds Of miles of railroad across
me desert. ending boats up the Nile
n hauling them over cataracts. He
drilled and fashioned his men. native
a. vel as British, until when lie did
advance nothing that the Mahdists
could muster could stay his relentless
hand.
II had been a land of slaughter and
his passing thereoyer promised Moth
ing less. Fortunately for the Sirdar.
one G. w stevens was OF the com.
pint. He was a newspaper CORE.
~sTondcnt who believed in the leader and
could tell a fiorid story well. And his
story of the advance southwark from
"adI iiaila. the skirmishes. the bat
tie of the Atbara. whence the Arab
,hieftain fled after the slaughter of
most OF his men down to the larger
battle Of Omdurman. where the 90 oOC
men OF the Anglo Egyptian force
slaughtered horribly over II 900 Of the
Arabs. wounded Is 600 and tool 1000
prisoners. so do the machine man and
tie machine Gun deal death to the
brave. The Anglo-Egyptian lost. kiilei
and wounded $50
h day after the battle they en-.
tered khartum, a couple OF miles ava,
across the fork Of the Nile. and held
a memorial service in honor OF the late
ten. Gordon.
In this action And It's preparation
we see Kitchener n: his highest notch
of action. England rewarded him
handsomely with cash and the title o.
Baron Kitchener Of khartum. He was
feted everywhere on his return 70
England. Little more than a veal
aftcrward, when the Boer wal was in
, It's second phase. he was ordered "a
South Africa as Chief Of staff TO Gen.
eral Lord Roberts.
, The frightful disaster 20 British
arms proclaimed loudly that it was not
a little war, and IL was Kitchener
merit that he perceived IL. At no time
had the Beers in the field more than
so, 900 men II their losses were not tc
be replaced, hut that they were, in the
peculiar conditions Of the country. a
match for treble their number was
, apparent TO him, and he asked for a
total Of o5o.00o men. \ victory over
, stubborn, wrons headed old Cronjc a,
p~aardeburG first really broke the Roei
power, but there was fight in the re-
inainder that kept kitchener's lcSions
long on their mcttle. De Wet, Dclarey
and Botha were great fighters anc
: lived Ia tell the tale. At last Kitchener
received their surrender, and his adj
vice TO The home Government hclpec
materially IN the settlement by which
' South Africa has really ruled itsel'
sircc. witt a. the present day Boths
at the head of the Government
Again the bell rang for Kitchener
He Wa. feted everywhere on his re
turn as before. made %viscount. grade,
as general and given $3.50, 900. H.
now went to India as commander II
chief, and, hard working as ever, re
which he entirely remodclled and re-
grouped the Indian army, doubling II
Numbers and looking 20 its stratcsi
; ~iuc,tion. In forcinc this change upn.
:. . reluctant bureaucracy hcid'l 10y tn
Niceruy. Lord Curzor he remarked
"TnI army l. posted for peace; TN
huSn.ss Of an army is war"
, Al tutt time ho aud others locke,
with great suspicious OF the Russia
- advances in Asia Now nothing Noul'
) u, more Wclrrmv within limits. Tn