Show z gei it sa FAMOUS GENERAL CON CONQUEROR 0 bp stift arc eki i W wjk karty AU all of bluain Br UaIn 2 retelL tie S u I 1 a product t f ireland HIs bmw at tato taa axa aff vit of 91 36 I 1 IK HOEt HORATIO ATIO herbert kitchener the me sirdar of the me egyptian army aul and the new hero of the sudan is a youna man being but 47 for the high place he has won by merit in the military service of his country like ID all of glands En grea greatest Lest generals he heis is an irishman and at 20 was a lie lieutenant utenart ute nant by 1888 he had bad been advanced to the rank of colonel he spent eight years surveying in the holy land during which aich he be picked up a very fair knowledge of colloquial arabic this together with his knowledge of the native character went far toward his success to in the sudan when kitchener went to egypt as one of the officers appointed to assist sir evelyn wood in the formation of an egyptian army most of the work fell to his lot owing to his ts familiarity with the fell fellaheen abeen he donned the uniform of a private and mixed freely with them he found them treated like brutes underfed for their religion insulted and in other ways abused his first care was to change all this he abolished the flogging lash gave them good food and an i beds paw paid them promptly and fully and guar guaranteed them the full exercise of their religion treatment had its effects in a short time the same sort of men who under hicks pasha tamely submitted GEN KITCHENER their necks to or fled in tear fear from the sword atthe of the dervishes were changed into brave strong warriors ready to fight fearlessly and willing to plaze place implicit confidence in their leaders it was this at once humane and shrewd management of the egyptians egyptian that enabled the sirdar to lead them victoriously against the mah dests all along the nile to the triumph at om durman dunnan and the taking of fashoda general kitchener at an extraordinarily garly early am age has attained to honors rare in the british army in 1878 Kitchener was sent to cyprus co to organize the land courts of the island and in a short time he had mapped every cranny ot of the land but despite ills his civil service Kitch eners military ardor did not abate a jot As long ions ago as 1889 he led an expedition of SM british and some sudanese and a few bashi bouka to check osman digna and very nearly succeeded in ej capturing sturl that tha t fiery d e ry lea leader d er in the th e same earns year after recovering from the wounds amounda he be had bece received ived he be took part in the attack ou on the dervishes besieging eom commanding manding a brigade consisting of the ninth tenth and twelfth sudanese batt battalions allona 4 this carried i the trenches of V the been in sev my 40 4 a 0 sudan and always su and brave bitet story gory ot of the ahe sir dars lil of bf scoffs ro the east HIS bis wanderings taj e sudan sadan uca hike bave been filled ep atod e leen ido 43 r 1 I 1 eg aia jamber 2 M bacor S ma ake with death to further ertons soso owna p s 1 |