STORY OF LORD KITCHENER.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 1271, 12 February 1910, Page 1

STORY OF LORD KITCHENER.

Mr. G. W. Smalley, in tho 'Tall Mall Magazine" for January,' 'tells about spending a week-end with Lord Kitchener at Mr. llalli's beautiful place in Sussex, at the time when lie was brooding over his Gordon College" scheme for Khartoum. He wanted £100,000, and he doubted whether ho should got it. Iv vain his friends urged him to make'his appeal. "No," said Lord Kitchener; "nothing less than £100,000 will be of any use. It is a large sum. I should not like to fail, and if they gave me only part of the amount to have to return it." Ho was told that his name would . be onougli. It was the psychological moment. 'Delay would only injure his chances. Mr. Smalley goes on to say that Lord Glenesk offered Lord Kitchener £100 across tho dinner-table, and other sums were offered there ami then, and the support of two powerful newspapers was promised. Still he hesitated, and still ho repeated, "L should not like. to fail." At last one of the company said, "Well, Lord Kitchener, if yon had doubted about your campaign as you do about this you would never have got to Khartoum." His face hardened, and his reply was characteristic of the man — : 'Perhaps not; but then I could depend on myself, and now I have to depend on the British public." But he did ask for tho money, and got all and more than all, he wanted with ho difficulty whatever.