The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . nks of Parliament, and $150,000—the Kaiser telegraph-ing his congratulations. Only two weeks after Omdurman, Kitcheners forces, on an his-toric occasion memorable in all stories of the World War, met atFashoda the French officer, Marchand, with eight other Frenchofiicers and 120 Sudanese tirailleurs. After negotiations ending in 162 PERSONAL SKETCHES OF WAR LEADERS the final withdrawal of the French from Pashoda, the whole of theSudan was in the hands o
The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . nks of Parliament, and $150,000—the Kaiser telegraph-ing his congratulations. Only two weeks after Omdurman, Kitcheners forces, on an his-toric occasion memorable in all stories of the World War, met atFashoda the French officer, Marchand, with eight other Frenchofiicers and 120 Sudanese tirailleurs. After negotiations ending in 162 PERSONAL SKETCHES OF WAR LEADERS the final withdrawal of the French from Pashoda, the whole of theSudan was in the hands of England, and Kitchener began to buildit up. His powers of organization led to the creation there of anew civilization. Within a year the Boer war broke out, witliBritish disasters at Stormberg, Magersfontein, and Colenso. LordRoberts was sent out and Kitchener, still Sirdar of the EgyptianArmy, promoted to be Lieutenant-General and made Roberts Chiefof Staff. He arrived in Cape Town in January, 1900, and in No-vember, after Roberts left for England, took supreme built across the Transvaal a line of blockhouses con-. KITCHENER IN A TRENCH IN GALLIPOLIDuring this visit, made late in 1915, Kitchener was frequently within a fewyards of Turkish trenches. The withdrawal from Gallipoli was a conse-quence of Kitcheners observations. He is standing at the extreme left iieeted by wires charged with electricity; put sixty mobile columnsinto the field, and had all women, children and non-combatants takenoff farms and placed in concentration camps. By a slow process theBoers were worn down, and in May, 1902, the long struggle was Kitcheners work—not the work of a dashing soldier, or abrilliant tactician, but the work of a plodding, methodical trafficsuperintendent with an organization in which nothing was left tochance. Kitchener had trained himself to regard war as an industry. 163 SKETCHES, PEACE TREATY, CHRONOLOGY To him it meant raising-, clotliinsr, arm
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