Show i z A wa ani ai ax FEW i r W W I 1 mr t W HERRY BIT I 1 I 1 i I 1 7 A it tk 4 I 1 0 REPLACE GEN H KITCHENER I 1 IN THE souie SOUDAN 4 11 I 1 I 1 e remarkable aenlo who hu A i ge visa som in the breitm army is sine i I 1 waa nineteen tn yew texis old 11 br 1 as B I 1 I 1 1 JEn centary batry tary career I 1 IR R REDVERS he heuy MT bauer the 1 army man who ho is to replace sir horo hora tto herbert kitchener at the hwa of I 1 the british form forces in fil egypt Is his senior by eledem years fa sir herbert who Is a mere 7 youth auth cl 47 its the london andon table cable has r is an able soldier but got enough of the old fox to vae the home government feel see safe ax Q his administration of the military sedition cp edition against the in the joam if an old soldier Is needed in bupt why then sir redvers is the wy ray man for the place for he has been 12 the army since the age of 19 years ha waa then a commissioned of officer fleer of W th thirtieth rifles and won his way covard by dogged determination hard ervice and distinguished bravery he I 1 ton the victoria cross for his gallant conduct at the retreat of faring aming the war in Zulu zululand luland Zu landL on that ac casion he rescued a brother officer who wu was while retiring on foot hotly pursued by the zulus on the same flay da he conveyed te tc a place of safety Um tenant everitt whose horse had UM ero killed billed under him he also saved tu lve of a trooper whose horse was asted and who otherwise had hi ad been amed bythe savages the zulus were eighty yards of the soldier oen lieutenant buller came up and rescued him since those early days 0 I 1 I 1 I 1 V I 1 I 1 C J 1 i 0 t SM SIR R IL BULLER bosa his has been a prominent figure in I 1 the fights of the english against the aermes whose territory has imn been in tided by the british in utile the egyptian cirar 1 WU of 1882 he was present at the action I 1 of Kas Kassam sassin ln and likewise at tel keber eber in the soudan expedition of UR sir took a leading part ad he served under lord wolseley in the expedition of 1885 into the very ter ary he now goes to as commander As I 1 funeral Fp it is the opinion of experts tha with the exception of Wol wolseley selBY CA 0 roberts buller bailer stands head and doul boulders ders over any general to in the brit th army |