Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1916-06-06
KITCHENER WAS A SELf-MAOE DICTATOR

he wanted, but within a year after the
war opened Premier Asquith officially
announced in parliament that about
100000 men had enlisted in the Uni
ted Kingdom alone, and almost another
million in the overseas dominions.
BORN IN IRELAND
Without his browning achievements
as the great organizer or the British
campaign in the European war Kit.
chener had already won wide and last
ing fame by his many campaigns in
Egypt, South Africa and in India.
He was born June "a, 1850, in Coun-
ty Kerry, Ireland, fact that gave rise
to general belief that he was of
Irish blood, but his parents were of
French and English descent. His
father was a soldier, out of no very
high rank He had managed to climb
to the lieutenant-colonelcy of dra.
COON regiment, when he retired to the
estate in Ireland.
In 1874 when q British expedition
was sent out TO survey western Pales-
tine. Kitchener was one Of the eager
volunteers accepted for this service
AS an intelligence officer Kitchener
accompanied Sir Herbert Stewards
desert column on that heoric but dis
astrous enterprise known as the Cor
don Relief Expedition-tn relief of
General Gordon from Khartum where
he had been entangled during the
evacuation of the SuGan. Kitchener
deeply took to heart the lessons of
this fiasco, with its failure of trans
port and intelligence departments, and
avoided these troubles IN the expedi-
ton which he himself led some years
later
As an instance of the self-confidence
with which Kitchener undertook his
tasks in Egypt is recalled how he
dealt with the war Office as few gen
erals before him ever dared.
SAF OhE OF MAX UNI
The Kitchener campaign that end
ed with the recapture of Khartum was
considered by military experts as per-
fectly organized and faultlessly con
Quoted. The Egyptian army that Kit
chener had worked up to such remark
able efficiency was when he first took
charge of it, band of unpaid, unfed
and undermined fellaheen. 1t was said
TO be an army without stomach, heart
or backbone but Kitchener worked
over these helpless reeds of broken
natives and made of them some of the
finest of black battalons.
The fight at Omdurman, September
2. 1898, just across the Nile from
Khartum, was the greatest battle of
kitchener's time in Egypt Osman
Digma faced him with $4,000 Mahdists.
while he had by 10000 men. When
he battle was over, 1900 of the
had been killed outright.
10000 wounded. and 1000 taken pri-
soners, while the English and Egyp.
tian loss altogether was under 500
men.
For his triumphs in the Sudan he was
raised to the peerage as Baron Kit
chener of Khartum, and received the
thanks of parliament and a grant of
$150,000. Shortly afterward he was
promoted Northumberland and then
to Lord Roberts in the
south African war, and on Lord
Roberts return to England in Novem-
Der, 1900, succeeded him as comman-
der-in-chief in that field. By construc-
ting $500 mile chain of block houses
he stopped the Boer raids and virtual
ly ended the war in South Africa. This
added to his popularity and prestige at
home, and he was rewarded by the
title OF Viscount, promotion to the
rank of general for distinguished ser
vices, the thanks OF the parliament
and a grant of $250,0O0.
General Kitchener's face was that
OF man who neither asked for sympa-
thy nor wanted it.
He had steady, biue- gray passion.
less eyes. and heavy moustache COW
cred a mouth that shut close and firm
like a wolf trap. He believed with all
his might in the gospel of work, He