Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-06-07

uOn IN the balkans.
ment of General Sir William Robert
son as chief of the Imperial staff in
December of last year. 1t was reported
at this time that friction had arisen
between Earl Kitchener and Field
Marshal French, then in command of
the British forces ir France Shortly
after the appointing II of General Rob-
ertson Field Marshal French relin-
quished his command
kitchener's Achievements
Notwithstanding the criticism di-
rected against Earl Kitchener his great
accomplishments during the war are
recognized universally. Foremost of his
achievements is the creation from
England's unframed manhood of a
huge army. At the beginning of the
war, Great Britain had only a few
hundred trained MGR. Today more than
five million men are enrolled for the
various branches of the service.
There have been no recent reports
of Earl kitcheners movements. He
was last mentioned in the cable dis
patches of Friday when he went to
Westminster palace to be questioned
by members of the House of Commons
who were not satisfied with the con-
duct of the war. No intimation was
given that he intenCed to leave Eng
land.
In England at Wars Outbreak
BY mere luck Kit ..lener happened to
be in England on . lc of the compare
lively rare visits that he had paid to
London during his long career abroad,
When the Europe war broke out. He
had Just come home from service as
British agent in Egypt, had accepted
an Earldom from King George, ana
was being talked of as Viceroy of In
dia. Within a few hours after Eng
lands declaration of war, Kitchener
was appointed secretary of state for
war and Immediately took full charge
at the war office, where he worked day
and night to overcome the handicap
which the Central Powers had over
England in the matter of fightinG
strength.
Without his browning achievements
campaign in the European war, Kitch-
ener had already won wide anG last
ing fame by his many campaigns in
Egypt. South Africa and in India.
He was born June "a, 1850, in County
Kerry, Ireland, fact that gave rise
to the general belief that he was of
Irish blood, but his parents were OF
French and English descent.
Much was heard iii England of
kitchener's work in Egypt and when
he returned there for a short rest he
was received with honor and nominal
ad aide-d de camp of Queen Victoria.
With his health recruited, he went
back to Egypt where, on the resigna-
ton of Sir Francis Grenfell, he was
appointed Sirdar (commandeD of the
Egyptian army. His really great ca
reer dates from that time
Title Of discount
For his triumphs in the Sudan he
was raised to the peerage as Baron
Kitchener of Khartum, and received
the thanks of Parliament and a grant
L
promoted Acknowledgement and then
chief Of staff to Lord Roberts in the
South African war, and on Lord Rob-
erts' return to England in November.
$780, succeeded him as communicative
chief in that field. BY constructing a
350O-mile chain of block houses he
stopped the Boer raids and virtually
- Sn,1th
added to his popularity and prestige
at home, and he was rewarded by the
title of visccunt, promotion to the
rank of general for distinguished ser
vices, the thanks Of the Parliament
and a grant Of s250.0oo
Immediately after the peace General
Kitchener went to India as command
erin chief of the British forces there,
and in this position which he held for
seven years, he carried out not only
many far-reaching administrative re-
forms but a complete reorganization
and strategical redistribution of the
British native forces. On leaving In
Ola in 1909 he was promoted field mar
shall and appointed COMMUNICATIVE
ChleI ana TlSH III tilO
Mediterranean. and later on took a
tour OF inspection of the forces Of the
entire empire, drawing up scheme of
defense of the overseas dominions.
He then returned to Egypt, the scene
of his first triumph, in the capacity of
British agent and consul general in
extraordinarily a governor general
ship of Egypt-and led in the econom-
ical development of the country, build
ing new roads and irrigation projects
on a large scale.
Never Married
He was Indifferent to popularity.
particularly among women, and though
feted all over the world in social cir
Giles. he never married. In 1910 he paid
a brief visit to the United States dur
ing a trip around the world. At that
time it came out in the New York pa
pers that the great Kitchener was a
woman hater." He took occasion to
s>-,, %bis aud said the Cnly reason he