Kitchener of Khartoum.

Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12169, 19 January 1903, Page 7

Kitchener of Khartoum.

intbe^si'lFQ Character'

Blackwodel's. Sf%aziiiti;"vhds .an, excellent ; sketch^ qi, Qcnprnl as he appea^da* durittg J h U y^tiUuiH.' Campaigns! , ""A? Staff Officer:" who writes it, attributes /the Threat . leader's success' , -ap'arl ? f rom Vh'is rTratural talent , to his disroga-«l-<if .'Sed -tape^ and of officiousness fr<>in Ministerial headquaKters.'.Ojie. Suakim expedition, he tells us, was actually ruined, by "useless documents," Jjut the <S>irdar's\ °^" iiee stationary consisted of a sheaf of tqlegfraph forms, which he carried in his hehnet, arid*^a pencil, which, he" "carried in his pocket. His officers could', hardly have been matched in Europe, for ; he-chose them • himself. He was not an easy , pre^'to petti- j coat or moneyed influencei^Nto^otte i knows; no one, j}erhap?> will ' tsver J know.'^says . "A' Staff, Officer," "the extent to which. X. was iniplored, be- J seeched, cajoled' by the highest in the land to, §niplp.y-A.. or B. 'Qr^./p^iiis staff," v or 'atfywKcre.^K. was ■ aVlamant to " s-uch, requeslST I remember one j cdseofla really, first-rate officer, who J same-out canned. '-with' a letter from a very irlustribus personage.- almost amountirtg, to a command, that, the j offi'der^snouid: be employed. The let- j ter ;■ was duly received; whether it j \va^ * answered 'or.' not I cannot «ay. but K. ch"ose ; 4his^men, and. not- other people's, and .the officer, in question, after fcfcltfrfg BtsVaipSls in ' Cairo for several- j weeks, returned to London | without hearing a. .word * ai^out employment. This happened in hundreds :>i cases. -K. was not then the power he is now, .and his implacable disreI gard of the pets of society argues a strengtfi-.,0f character , which hfia 1 . \vays seemed" to jne .one of' the greati est-' 'propfe' di his 'fdarldss independoridc/' -, Hjs only obvioxis deficiency, we 'are told, was a certain want of f kill* in infantry^ .drill. In the confusion of the fight at Omdurman, -it r-iecded 1 • - tlie action of "Fighting Mac" to save the situation which otherwise might have boon ugly iji "the extreme. On' the other hand, says the writer, .Lord Kitchener has never had' sufficient justice done himfor, his decision t to march into Omdurman, when the towri Was full offighting men, the day more than half spent, and no reconnaisance possible, owing 'to the mirage. It was a vvert'y t ' serious, "and" a very bold deteision, andthe Sirdar, in taking it, .understood' . the character oi the enemy better than anybody else. " Had he delayed for j twenty- four hours." continues the staff officer, "we- should probably have ' oncoTTnter ed' a 'SeiHoue * r6s fetancc, an d hayehari to . : fight' \our. way .from huuse'tp,- house - and- wall to .wall — lighting that 'should always be avoided, at almost any' ,cbst x .sinee Vt^. in-: variably' leads, riot <3nly .to IH-Avyl loss, but to loss, of ffie 'best men."' The writei; naturally think&.th,at L.ordKitchener' will some day Become Cbin-mander-in-Chief,' arid .then the formalists of the present" regime will fee, such sweeping, reform's l as; will "'ii*feM their hrtir 'stand 'bri'eri'd 5 ."" , ' ■ \

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