Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-06-07

f1 work In which he displayed admin
istratiye ability and tarl,
II was while there, IN 1882, that he
took his first step on the pain mat
was TO lead him eventually 10 Khar-
tnm. Trouble was alrcady brewing
IN the sudan. Hearing that The Egyp-
! dan army was being organized by Sll
! Evelyn Wood, young Kitchener saW ms
opportunity with unerrlDg instinct
J and lost no time IN offering MS ser
vices. The military authorize. rec
ognizing at once his insight into the
native character, put him N the intel-
liEence department, and from the very
outset Of his Egyptian career nee6-
tlations Of the utmosi importance
were entrusted to him and carried OUT
with invariaElc succeys AZ an inielH-
gence officer Kitchener accompanied
Sir Herbert Stewart's desert column
On that heroic but disastrous enteT3,
prise known as the Gordon relief oN-
pedlton--- the relief Of General Cor
lion from Khartum, where he mad
been cntangled during the evacuation
of the Sudan.
Profitcd by Experience.
Kitchener deeply took TO heart the
Lessons Of this fiasco. with iis failure
OF transport anu liANllfNi1f N'H9AtF
ments. and avoided these troubles IN
the expedition which he hinself led
some years later In the meantime
Kitchener was employed IN mummy
able fights and raids against the der
wishes or Mahdists of southern Egypt
In 1886 he became governor OF the
Red Sea territories and set IN motion
d series Of raids on the notorious Os-
man Dignan, the dervish leader. lp
one Of thpse raids Kitchener smen werb
flanked and put to fight, during
which he received a bullet which
broke his jaw.
by this time much was heard in
England of Kitchener's work in Egypt
ana when he returned there foe q
short rest he was received with honor
land nominated aide-de-camp OF
Queen Victoria With his health re
cruited, he went back to Egypt where,
on the resignation OF Sir Francis
Grenfell, he was appointed sirdar
fcomfnandfr) OF the Egyptian army.
liis really great career dates from
that time.
Beginning of Ills Fame.
Az an instance Of the gelf-confi-
aienQe with which Kitchener undertook
fis taelss IN Egypt is recalled how he
dealt with the war office az few gen
bcfals before him ever dared. ON ono
occasion he sent home for q specia
kjnd.of gun. The war office suggest
ed another kind The sirdar repeated
his orders Next he WAS Informed
that the war office guns had been for
warded. whereupon he dispatched d
politely lnsOlent message home saying
That he was very grateful, but the war
office could keep It's guns. His mes
suEe read: II can throw stones mt the
dervlshcs myself" AZ a consequence
tho guns he asked for were forward
ed without delay.
'Fhe Kitchener campaign that ended
with The recapture of Kharlllfu was
considered by military experts as per-
frctly organized and faultiessly con
iucted. The Egyptlnn army That
81 tehener worked up TO such remark
lbie efficiency was when he frs, toOn
charge of II, a band Of unpaid, tinted
HNd undermined fellaheen. II was
rnid TO be an army without stomach,
heart or backbone" but Kitchener
worked over these helpless reedF ol
broken natives and made OF them
some OF the finest Of black battalions.
His Greatest Battle.
The fght al omuufmhni september
e, 1898. Just across the Nile from
y enr' the Greatest battle OF
Kitchener's time in Egypt Osman
nlgna faced him with $4,000 Nah
dists, while he had but 10000 men.
When the battle was over, 600 Of
the Mahdists had been killed out
right. 1900 wounded. and 1000
taken prisoners. while the English
and Egyptian loss altogether was un-
der 5000 men.
With the capture of Khartum, capt.
lni Of the Sudan, which meant the
establishment of British possession
~ these upper reaches OF the Nile,
l<itchener became the object of hero
worship in England His campaign