THE AGEN OF OUR GENERALS AND STATESMENT.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 4764, 23 June 1900, Page 4

THE AGEN OF OUR GENERALS AND STATESMENT.

Writing to the " Nations] EeviewT* »fl ißdtfHlhfbtfSvdainraittr tbat we are ntymsf&s& ffljich an old meti. He iayirj^lOttt'dWn'Ettpife wtis buiit up mMniv by young men. Chatham was nOK J& *hen ;^e wa» Called upon to »<ifi.ue: frotn utter collapse, and to jjpnyert! continued defeat, into ▼ictorj^Yerj^ morning. Pitt- w«s,.,a boy wfllb^nr Was 1 ivtomoned fcV tW *mnmtk{titi 6Vm[r* f 6ti thee'fe of tW Jrteift* stagy in whidK otir cc^iHtry^ v bas' eVeV Sn^age* Wdfffe xfobi' oiiiy 42 wb^n he 1 ' lhid dbWri his nrthle )ife on *h« Heights of Abraham. { (»*s.«. sMj? -..Maißp^d him as "our gr«ai^p« sailor «nc»» fbe w^rld began." Wt'Uingtpn wa« 34 when he comrigffi&ifisfajeyM only 40 when he opeced the Peninsular war as Commander*i&chi& of the great trmj?. Joh,B ChurchilTj Duke of Marlborough, was 52 when he took the field for his first campaign as generalissimo in. Inlanders. Cromwell the greatest soldier Mtid' organiser our country hao ever prodaced, . was 46 when he won Naseby. 'The Duke of Cumberland was not 25 when he became Commander in-chief. Some month* later he went to an army demoralised by defeat/ and in a few wtek« lifted itto; confidence and vie topf . But, then, Cumberland was a princft who bad soldiered and studied ib*te«d of giving his time to sport. The generals who made their names on the side of the t North during the Civil War were all young men. Grant was 40 when he commanded at Shiloh ; Sheridan was 33 when he received command of the' cavalry of the army'dF tlie Fdtomffc ; Snerman, one of the very best, if not the best man that the war produced on either side, was only 44 when he started forth on his immortal a^Jlaitita' campaign. On the side of the South, too, the generais were young by modern' standards. " Joe " Johnson was only 52 at the outbreak ot the war ; Lee waß 54 ; 11 Jeb " utmtf was 28 ; j«« Stonewall " J&ckßxmf37~* If *r© tiara to our field fLimj to>ds>Y, we shali fiaa that not one of tHe officers Th High command in Africa is under 40. These are the ages .— P Age. ' General; Buller^ ... ... 61 General Gatacre 57 General Lord Methuen •£§5 General Clery ... ..r62 General French 48 General Kelly- Kenny ... 60 General Warren 60 General White 65 Lord Roberts 68 Lord Kitchener 50 And now let us turn to tbe men who control the fortunes of the Empire to-day. Their names and their ages are as follows :— Age. Lord B*lisbury 70 Mr Chamberlain 64 Mr A. Balfour 52 Mr Goschen 69 Bir M. Hicks-Beach 63Duk»« of Devonshire... ... 67 Lord Lundsdowne ... ... 55 ' Lord Wol»pley ... ... 67 Lord W Kerr ... ..} 60 Tl'pre is no one umler 50 In' this 11 inner circle. "