The Hartford republican., 1916-06-30

to It that they lacked nothing in the
way OF liquid refreshments.
After a time the officers became
talkative and commenced to boast Of
of their exploits. Burleigh kept his
ears wide open and while the dinner
was still in progress"slipped out to
his room, dashed off a cable dispatch
with the details of the Kitchener
Marchand imbrogho that had brought
France and Britain to- the verge of
war, and returned to his guests, who
had hardly noticed his brief absence.
Again the telegraph had beat"
that astounded all Fleet Street, and
again Lord Kitchener was raging.
For a long time Burleigh was per-
sna non grata with Lord Kitchener,
but a reconciliation came about in an
odd manner at the time when the
latter was being attacked in Parlia-
ment for his alleged ruthless conduct
of the war against the dervishes. A
magazine writer had accused Lord
Kitchener of having permitted a
nephew of Gen. Gordon to exhume
the khalifa and to sever the head
from the body.
II was charged that Lord Kitchen
er permitted the body to be flung into
the Mill, just as Gordon's body had
been treated, and that the head of
the successor of Mahomet had been
shipped to England. The charges
aroused all England and Lord Kitch-
ener was sorely troubled. At this
juncture Burleigh came to Lord
Kitchener's defense. declared that
the magazine article was tissue of
falsehoods and produced proof that
khalifa's tomb had not been disturb
ed. The attacks on Lord Kitchener
died down and Burleigh received the
thanks and renewed friendship of
the correspondents enemy" 1t was
never definitely made known wheth
er the khalifa's head had been sent
TO England-the men who know do
not care to discuss the subject.
Rarely in bitter warfare, such as
that in upper Egypt. has there been
an incident such as occurred after the
real battle at Omderman, where
Lord Kitchener gave a real British
military funeral for slain tribes
man. The Angle-Egyptian forces had
finished cleaning the stragglers out
of the dirty town and Lord Kitchener
and his staff were passing on horse
back through suburb when, amid
snipers' bullets, they saw lying be-
side the road ahead of them wound
ed Mohumad pinned to earth by his
dead horse. The dervish officer wore
over a gaily colored silk gibba coat
of mail, exactly like those worn by
steel, with a bar extending down
over the nose and guards of steel
chains over his shoulders, added TO
the novelty of the mans uniform.
Although man and horse lay prost-
rate, the position of the rider and the
mount was so natural that Lord
Kitchener suspected trap and halt
ed at some distance At that NOM
ent the Mohamad's eyes opened and
rested full upon the bronzed hand
some Lord Kitchener. Whether that
brief glimpse gave him the idea he
was looking upon the revered khalipa
himself or whether it was the trib-
ute of a defeated foe to conqueror,
the dervish chief suddenly twisted
himself into an upright position,
brought his gloved hand to salute
for a brief moment, then fell over
dead. The spectacle was so inspiring
so dramatic, that Lord Kitchener
and his staff, every one of whom had
drawn revolvers when they saw the
dervish move, leaped from their
horses and barred their heads in
honor of the fallen foe. The next
day there was a British military fun
eral for the dervish.