Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-06-06
kHARTUM HERO and STAFF ON
WAY TO RUSSIA FOR MEETING
CONCERNING THE TREND OF WAR
Earl Kitchener Raised The
Greatest Volunteer Army the
World Has Euer Witnessed

/ announced that the big drive" would
begin about the first of May. The Bat
tie of Neuve Chappelle occurred in
May, and England believed this was
The beginning of the big drive. Short
ly afterWard, reports reached England
that the drive had halted, owing to a
shortage of munitions, especially high
explosives. A section of the London
press then declared that Kitchener
had made a serious mistake in pro-
yiding large quantities of shrapnel and
insufficient high explosives. Newspa-
per attacks went SO far as to suggest
his being displaced as war secretary,
but the majority of the papers de-
Tended him. 1t was agreed that the
raising of a big army and supplying
munitions at the same time was too
great task for one man. The dis
cussion developed the formation of a
coalition cabinet and the creation of
the new portfolio of minister of mum
tions, of which David Lloyd-George
took charge, while Kitchener remain
ed as war minister.
Without his crowning achievements
as the great organized of the British
campaign in the European war, Kitch-
ener had already won wide and lasting
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 a general belief that he was of
Irish blood, but his parents were of
French and English descent. His IA
ther was a soldier, but of no very higl
rank. He had managed to climb to
the lieutenant-colonenc of a Gragood
regiment, when he retired to the es-
tate in Ireland, where Horatio Her.
bert Kitchener the o-be-distinguished
son, was born. Young Kitchener re-
ceived his fundamental military edu-
cation at Woolwich, where he display
ed only ordinary brilliancy, with the
exception of his liking for mathemat-
les. On graduating he received a conf
mission in the Royal Engineers, but
VIXEN not yet 81 years of age he at
tached himself to a French army in
the Franco-Prussian war. He had
been in the service only a short time
when he contracted pneumonia during
a balloon fight, and had such a pro.
longed and serious illness that he haa
to give up further service for France.
Kitchener's experience in European
warfare-prior to his direction of the
great war of 1914-therefore, had been
limited to few balloon flights in
France.
In 1874 when a British expedition
was sent out to survey Western Pales-
tine, Kitchener was one of the eager
volunteers accepted for the service
For months he travelled over the hills
and valleys of this peaceable Bible
land, with his theodolite and surveying
tape, and with this life in the open he
grew to be a tall, gaunt, subaltern
with hard face we'll burned. His
contribution to the typographical
knowledge of the Holy Land complet,
ed, young Kitchener was sent to Cy-
prus, which Great Britain has just
acquired, to organize system OF
courts, work in which he displayed
administrative ability and tact.
1t was while there in 1882, that he
took his first step on the path that
was to lead him eventually to Khar-
tum. Trouble was already brewing in
the Sudan. Hearing that the Egyptian
army was being organized by Sir EV-
elyn Wood, young Kitchener saw his
opportunity with unerring instinct,
and lost no time in offerings his SER
vices. The military authorities, rec
cgnizing at once his insight into the
native character put him into the in
telligence department, and from the
very outset of his Egyptian career ne
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