Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-06-09

4 600 taken prisoners, while the English
and Egyptian loss altogether was unoer
500 men.
With the capture of Khartum. capital
of the Sudan, which meant the re-estan-
lishment of British possession OF these
upper reaches of the Nile, Kitchener be-
came the object Of hero-worshtp In Eng
land. His campaign had been, and is TO
this day, much criticised, however, be-
cause of it's ruthlessness. 1t was
charged Kitchener trampled on his foes
in an almost barbarous manner. On his
return to England. however, he was
generous enough to ask his countrymen
to found a college at Khartum wherein
the sons of the derkish chiefs he had
fought and overwhelmed might be edu-
Gated in the knowledge of the west, a
request that met with such response
among the British people that the FUND
required was far over subscribed.
For his triumphs in the Sudan he was
raised to the peerage as Baron Kitchener
of Khartum, and received the thanks of
parliament and grant of $4,000.
shortly afterward he was promoted
lieutenant general and then chief OF
staff to Lord Roberts in the South Afr1-
can war, and on Lord Roberts return
TO England in November, 1900, succeeded
him as commander-in-chief in that Held.
BY constructing a 3,500-mile chain or
block houses, he stopped the Boer RAIDS
and virtually ended the war in South
Africa. This added to his popularity
and prestige at home, and he was re-
warded by the title Of viscount, promo
ton to the rank of general for distin-
guished services, the thanks of the par
lament, and a grant of S26O,OOO.
COMMUNICATIVE CHIEF.
Immediately after the peace General
Kitchener went to India as commander
in-chief of the British forces there, and
in this position, which he held for seven
years, he carried out not only many Iar-
reaching administrative reforms, but
complete reorganization and strateglcal
redistribution Of the British ana native
forces. On leaving India in 1903 he was
promoted field marshal, and appointed
commander-in-chief and high commits
sioner in the Mediterranean, and later
on took a tour of inspection of the
forces of the entire empire, drawing up
a scheme of defense of the overseas do
minions.
Fe then returned to Egypt, the scene
of his first triumph, in the capacity of
British agent and consul general in
extraordinarily governor generalship
of Egypt--and led in the economical de-
veIopment of the country, building new
roads and irrigation projects on a large
scale. g.
During all the years the British people
had looked on Kitcheners silent but
effective work they had never been able
to fathom his personality. cockney
on-commissioned officer, who had seen
much service under him, summed up the
general opinion when he said of Kitch-
ener:
"'E's no talker; not i'm. Els all steel
and h'ice."
His face was that of a man who
neither asked for sympathy nor wanted
il.
He had steady, blue-gray, passionate
eyes. and a heavy moustache covered a
mouth that shut close and firm like a
wolf trap. He believed with all his
might in the gospel of work He had
illimitable self-confdence. For bungling
and faint-heartedness he was incapable
of feeling sympathy or showing mercy;
an officer who failed him once got no
second chance. He had a grim, laconic
humor. what is your taste in hair
pins?" for instance, is said to have been
the query with which he annihilated a
dandifed officer. He was Indifferent to
popularity, particularly among women,
and, though feted all over the world in
social circles, he never married.
In 1910 he paid a brief visit to the
United States during trip around the
world. At that time it came out in the
New York papers that the great Kitch-
ener was a woman hater." He took
occasion to deny this, and said the only
reason he had never married was be-
cause he believed a man could not be a
good soldier and a good husband at the
same time.