The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-01-06
MAUDE'S REMAINS
REST AT BACDAD
ACCOUNT GIVEN OF MEMORIAL
SERCiCE

London, Jan. 4.-(Correspondence
CT the Associated Press) General
Maude, the conqueror of Bagdad, who
recently died of Cholera in an army
hospital in Mesoptomia, lies buried in
the center of the British cemetery
north of Bagdad, adjoining the old
Turkish cavalry barracks. A wooden
cross marks his grave, and a heap of
wreaths, shrysanthemums and mari
colds were strewn over the CRASHES
world of desert. Among these floral
tributes were ribbons and artificial
flowers, the tribute of the people of
Bagdad, CT The Naquib, and of the
Jewish school, whose annual dramatic
entertainment he attended few
days before his death. The nearest
grave to his own are those Of pri-
Yates of his division which he used
to command
The British Eye-witn with the
armies in Mesoptomia in an account
of memorial service held in the
citadel at Bagdad, writes of General
Maude:
zones first impression of him was
modesty, repose, confidence and
strength. Only gradually did one re-
cognize or realize his thoroughness,
his far vision, and his infinite APP
plication to detail. He was a master
Of detail. Supply, transport, intelli-
gence, psychological factors-in ev-
cry branch CT staff work he was the
inspirer and director.
"Ex-cffcio he will have niche
among the military immortals as the
conqueror of Bagdad, but none realize
better than the army he led how in
dlvidual his successes were. He
was more than the heart and brain of
the machine. 1t is doubtful that if
in the whole of British military his
tory there is a parallel instance in
which a series of military victories
can be more exclusively attributed
to the personality of one man.
"The retrieving of the situation after
the British had failed to relieve Kut,
the reconstruction of the fighting ma
chine, and the breaking up of the Turk
ish foce in theTigris. called for quail
tiles which when found in combina-
ton amount to genius. In these
dark days Britain prayed for great
man-and he was On the spot.
THE operations which led to the
capture of Bagdad were series OF
mastery strokes, so brilliant in con-
ception that the Turks never serious
" contemplated their success. But
Maude was always confident of break
ing through In the long, costly and
laborious business Of evicting the Turk
yard by yard from his elaborate
trench system about Kut, he was sat
isfied the time that things were going
well, and his confidence was infec-
tious
General Maude's modesty was so
pronounced as to be remarkable. He
detested flattery and would have
liked 10 have carried on the whole cam
paign anonymously. No personal ref
erence to himself was permitted in
any puDllc cCmmunlque. lie never
gave himself the credit fer any sue
cessful operation or stroke of genius
or sound piec eof organization. He
never listened to congratulations
minimizing his own part in the affair.
'"Don't congratulate me- he would
say in coed natured Impotence. at
was the men who did it.. He had
probably conceived every detail of
the operation, even to the handling of
single battalions, yet, when the coup
was accomplished he would reflect
the whole credit ON the subordinate
command, He was as diciplined in