Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-06-08

FRANCE NltChcncr's experience III
European warfarc--prior to his dlrec-
ton of the great war of l9l4-there-
fore, had been limited only to feW
balloon flights in France.
In 1874 when British expedition was
sent out to survey western PALESTINE
Kitchener was one of the eager volun-
teers accepted for this service FOR
months he travelled over the hills and val
leys of the peaceabe Bible land with MS
theodolite and surveying tape, ana with
this life in the OPEN he grew to he u TAM
Eaunt suhaltcrn with n hard race wei
burned. His contribution to the topo-
graphical knowledge of the Holy Land
completed, young Kitchener was sent to
Cyprus, which Great Britain had just ac-
CURED, to organize n system or courts
work in which he displayed administra
| tive ability ana tact. II was while there,
i'm iSS2, that he took his first step on the
path that was to lead him eventually to
Khartum Trouble was already brewing
in the Sudan. Hearing that the Egyptian
army ives being organized by Sir Evelyn
| Wood young Kitchener saw his oppor-
tunity with uncrring instinct and lost no
time in offering his services. The military
authorities, recognizing at once his in
! sight into the native character, put him
! in the intellieenca denartment and from
the very outset ne his E,pvptnan career
| negotiations of tho utmost importance
| were entrusted To him and carried out
with invarin.ble success As an intelli.
gence officer Kitchener accompanied Sir
,Herbert Stewards desert column on that
heroic but disastrous ENTERPRISE known as
| the Gordon Relief expodition-the relief of
General Gordon from Khartum where he
! had been ontangled durlng the evacuation
of the Sudan. Kitchener deeply took TO
heart the lessons of this fasco, with its
failure Of TRANSPORT and intclligence de-
partments, and avoided these troubles in
| the expedition which he himself led some
years later. In the meantime kitchene,
was employed in innumorablc fights and
raids against the dervishes or Mahdists
of southern Egypt In 1886 he became
governor of the Red sea territories and
set in motion a series Of raids on the no.
torious Osman Dgna. the Dervish leader,
In one of these raids Kitchener's men
were fanked and put to flight during
which he received a bullet which broke
his jaw,
! BY this time much was heard in Eng
| land of Kitchcners work in Egypt and
! when he returned there for n short rest he
was received with honor and nominated
aide-de- camp of Queen Nictoria With his
| health recruited, he went back to Egvn,
where on the resignation of Sir Francis
Grenfell. he was appointed sirclar (com-
mander) of the Egyp.ian army His really
great career dates from that time
! AS an instance of the self-conGdanco
with which Kitchener undertook his tasks
in Egypt is recalled how he dealt with
the war Office as few generals before him
ever dared ON one occasion IN, sent homo
for a special kind OF gun Tho war Of
flee suggested another kind The Sirdo,
repcated his orders. Next he was in.
formed that the war office runs had baor
forwarded vheraunon no disna,cbod !,
no,ito,v insoiort ,,ossogo bor,o s,yiro
that no was very grateful. bur the wa,
ot,ice could keen ito guns HE MESSAGE
reod. 81 con throw stones -. tho
dervishes mvscIf" AS consequences
tho Guns he asked for vore forward cd
without de,ov
Tho I>itcheror c,nnoisn that ordod
with tbe racanturo ~ Lbartu,, u.as CON.
eiderad bv ,,ilitor, oxnorts ~ nerfoctlv
organiyod and fa,ltlnesI,. copductad Tbo
I-s,.ntio, ,r,,,. Tho, I,i.cboron nod u.orl,
cd ~, 60 s,,cb ,,,,,o,l,,h,o ,rfic;arcy Voc
when ne first fool, cbarce Of IL a hand
Of unnaid uufod and undermined fo,Ia
heen If yvas said tn no an army "yvith
ont stomach. heart or backbone" but
Kitchener worked over these heInless
reeds of broken natives and ,7nde Of then,
Soma Of tho rnee, Of hl,ck ha+,,liore
The fight AT Ordurman. Sentember .
1895 inst across tho Milo from, Ehartum.
was the greatest battlo Of Kitchener
time in Egypt. Osman Digna faced him
with 20 90 Nobdists ybiIn hc had but
20 90 men. When the battle was over.
II 900 of the Nahdists had hecn killed ont.
right 1900 wounded. and 1000 taken
prisoners. while the English and
Egvptian loss altopether was under 5G0
men.
with the capture of Khartum. capital
of the Sudan. which meant the re.
establishment of British possession of
these upper reaches of the Nile. Kitchener
became the object of hero-worship in
ENGLAND His campaign had been. and is
to this day, much criticized however be-
cause of its ruthlessness. 1t was charged
Kitchener trampled on his foes in an al
most barbarous manner. On his return u
| England. however. he was generous
| enough to ask his countrymen TO found
"A college at Khartum wherein the sons
of the dervish chiefs he had fought and
overwhelmed might be educated in the
| knowledge of the West request that