New Britain herald., 1916-06-06

very outset of his Egyptian career 1 negotiations of the utmost importance
 were entrusted to him and carried l out with invariable success. As an intelligence officer Kitchener ac- companied Sir Herbert Stewards de- sert column on that heroic but Iis- astrous enterprise known as the Cor ] don Relief Expedition--the relief l of General Gordon from Khartum where he had been entangled during ;.the evacuation of the Sudan. Kitchen ; CT deeply took to heart the lessons ! of this flascO, with it's failure of trans port and intelligence departm ents, and avoided these troubles in the ex- petition which he himself led some
 years later. In the meantime Kitch- ener was employed in innumerab ble fights and raids against the dervishes or Mahdists of Southern Egypt. In 1886 he became governor of the Red i Sea territories and set in motion a series of raids on the notorious Osman Digna, the dervish leader Tn one of these raids Kitchener's men were flanked and put to flight, during which he received a bullet which broke his jaw.
 By this time much was heard in England of Kitchener's work in Egypt and when he returned there for a short rest he was received with
 honor and nominated aide of Queen Victoria. With his health recruited, he went back to Egypt where, on the resignation of Sir ] Francis Grenfell, he was appointed Sirdar Commander of the Egyptian army. His really great career dates from that time.
 Afraid of No One. As an instance of the self-confi- dence with which Kitchener under took his tasks in Egypt is recalled how he dealt with the War Office as few generals before him eN~tr dar- ed. On one occasion he sent home
 for a special kind of gun. The War Office suggested another kind. The Sirdar repeated his orders. Next he was informed that the War Office
 guns had been forwarded, whereupon
 he dispatched a politely insolent <les- sage home saying that he was very
 grateful, but the War Office could keep it's guns. His message read: "I
 can throw stones at the dervishes myself" As a consequences the guns
 he asked for were forwarded without delay
 The Kitchener campaign that end ed with the recapture of khartum
 was considered by military experts as perfectly organized and faultlessly ! conducted. The Egyptian army that ] Kitchener had worked up to such re-
 markable efficiency was, when he first i took charge of it, a band of unpaid, l unfed and undermined fellaheen. It l was said to be an army 'WlthOut 1 stomach, heart or backbone but l Kitchener worked over these help 1 less reeds of broken natives and made l of them some of the finest of black i battalions.
 The fight at Omdurman, September
 ?, 1898, ujst across the Nile from
 Khartum, was the greatest battle of l Kitchener's time in Egypt. Osman 1 Digna faced him with 5O,OO0 Nah ] dists, while he had but 2O,OOO men. 1 When the battle was over, 11,0OO of
 the Mahdists had been killed out l right, 5000 wounded, and 4,0OO talk
 en prisoners, while the English and i Egyptian loss altogether was under l 500 men.
 Worshipped as Hero.
 With the capture of Khartum cap1- tai of the Sudan, which meant the re- l establishment of British possession of 1 these upper reaches of the Nile, 1 Kitchener became the object of hero i worship in England. His campaign
 has been, and is to this day, much 1 criticised, however, because of it's 1 ruthlessness. It was charged Kitch
 ener trampled on his foes in an almost ! barbarous manner. On his return to
 England, however, he was generous | enough to ask his cOuntrymen to 1 found college at Khartum wherein 1 the sons of the dervish chiefs he had 1 fought and overwhelmed might be 1 educated in the knowledge Of the , west, request that met with such 1 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 l Kitchener of Khartum, and received
 the thanks of parliament and a grant
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