The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-06-06
KITCHENER WAS LOST
WITH ALL ON BOARD
CRUISER HAMPSHIRE
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hall street when he made numerous
changes in the personnel of the war of
flee, which was said to be honeycombed
with social and political fayoritism.
After dispatching few hundred thous'
and regulars 70 France and Belgium ia
help check the onrlIshing Germans, the
war secretary began recruiting and or
ganizing his army Of millions. The Brit
ish Isles were covered with signs and
posters urging young men to join the
colors. Kitchener went through the
country experimenting the drilling of
the army. From time TO time were re-
ports indicating his failure to get the
number OF men he wanted. but within q
year after the war opened. Premier As
quith officially announced in Parliament
that about 100000 men had enlisted
in the United Kingdom alone, and almost
another million in the overseas dominion,
Kitchener Blamed for Failure Against
Germany.
| Kitchener. however, was the object OF
no little criticism. There was much
grumbling because Of the strict censor
ship he imposed on newspapers and his
utter disregard for war correspondents.
Notwithstanding this, the British news
papers gave him active support prior to
| May, 1918 During the winter months
the war secretary had announced the
big drive" would begin about the first
of May. The battle OF Neuve Chapelle
occurred in May, and England believed
this was the beginning OF the big drive.
Shortly afterward, reports reached Eng
land that the drive had halted owing to
a shortage of munitions, especially high
explosive shells. section Of the Lon
don press then declared that Kitchener
had made a serious mistake in providing
large quantities OF shrapnel and INSULT
eient high-explosives. Newspaper attacks
went so far as TO suggest his being dis
placed as war secretary, but the ma ori-
ty OF the papers defended him 1t was
agreed that the raising of big army
and supplying munitions at the same
time was too great q task for one man.
The discussion developed the formation
of coalition cabinet and the creation
of the new portfolio Of minister OF NUM-
tions, of which David Lloyd George took |
charge, while Kitchener remained as war
minister.
Without his GROWING achievement as
the great organizer Of the British cam
paign in the European war, Kitchener
had already won wide and lasting fame
by his many campaigns in Egypt, South |
Africa and in Indig.
Born in Ireland.
He was born June "a. 1850, in County
Kerry, Ireland, a fact that gave rise to
a general belief that he was of Irish
blood but his parents were Of French
and English decent. His father was a
soldier, but of no very high rank lie
had managed to climb to the lieutenant
OF dragon regiment, when he
retired to the estate in Ireland where
Horatio Herbert Kitchener, the to-be dis
tinguished SON was born. Young Kitch-
ener received his fundamental military
education at Woolwich. where he dis
played only ordinary brjliiancy, with
he exception of his liking for mathe-
MATES. On graduating he received a
in the Royal Engineers, but
when not yet p years of age he attached
himself TO a French army in the Franco
prussian war. He had been in the serv-
ce only a short time when he contracted :
1.
lad such prolonged and serious illness J
hat he had to give mp further service
or France. kitchener's experience in
European warfars-prior to his direction
4 the great war of l9l4-therefore, had
zen limited only to a few balloon fights :
n France. r
An Eager Volunteer. s
In 1874 when a British expedition was t,
emit out to survey western Palestine, L
kitchener was one of the eager volun- a
GERS accepted for this service. For il
lonths he Travelled over the hills and n
alleys of this peaceable Bible land with 81
is theodolite and surveying tape, and h
nth this life in the open he grew to be v
all, gaunt subaltern with a hard face T
rell burned. His contribution to the Al
geographical knowledge of the Holy ii
md completed, yeung Kitchener was OF
snt to Cyprus which Great Britain had Il
lst acquired, TO organize a system OF s.
,urts, work in which he displayed ad-
illustrative ability and tact. 1t was X
lille there, in 1882. that he took his in
rst step on the path that was to lead in
i'm eventually to Khartum. Trouble "
as brewing in the Sudan. re
Hearing that the Egyptian army was co
sing organized By Sir Evelyn Wood, re
Dung Kitchener saw his opportunity 70
it'll unerring instinct and lost no time pr
offering his service The military au- co
lorities, recognizing at once his insight si'
to the native character, put him in the to
telligenee department, and from the tn
,ry outset of his Egyptian career ne Of
,tiations of the utmost Importance were
trusted 10 him and carried out with OF
variable success. As an intelligence Of Br
er, Kitchener accompanied Sir Herbert -
.ewart's desert column on that heroic
1t disastrous enterprise known as the 90.
,rdon relief expedition--the relief of
neral Gordon from Khartum, where he
ID been entangled during the evacus
On of the Sudan. Kitchener deeply took
heart the lessons of this fiasco. with
failure of transport and intelligence
partments, and avoided these troubles
the expedition which he himself led n
me years later in the meantime kitch
er was employed in innumerable fights b
A raids against the derVishes or Nah. n