Lord Cromer : a biography . on the very same evening LordCromer arrived in Egypt on his return from astay of some weeks in England. It was an inspiriting welcome to his officialhome, and a most gratifying episode to haveinterpolated itself in a long and often monotonoushistory of hard administrative work. Repre-senting, too, as it did, but the first stage in ourenterprise of reconquest, this little campaignis nevertheless one on which the country hasgood cause to congratulate itself, and which maywell inspire us with just pride in the organization,civil and military, by which it was carried ou
Lord Cromer : a biography . on the very same evening LordCromer arrived in Egypt on his return from astay of some weeks in England. It was an inspiriting welcome to his officialhome, and a most gratifying episode to haveinterpolated itself in a long and often monotonoushistory of hard administrative work. Repre-senting, too, as it did, but the first stage in ourenterprise of reconquest, this little campaignis nevertheless one on which the country hasgood cause to congratulate itself, and which maywell inspire us with just pride in the organization,civil and military, by which it was carried Expedition of 1896 was, like most adven-tures into the formidable wastes of the Soudan,beset with difficulties requiring a large measureof capacity and wise forethought at headquarters,and of courage, resource, and endurance in thefield to ensure its success. But Lord Cromer andthe Sirdar had so thoughtfully provided for allcontingencies at all capable of prevision, and SirHerbert Kitchener showed such promptitude in. o CO O ceo UJ > O CO < UJ o< z<co & THE ADVANCE TO DONG OLA 327 grappling with and overcoming all unforeseenobstacles, that the campaign went from startto finish almost without a hitch. Even reckoningin the hindrances entailed by an unprecedentedsuccession of violent sand and rain storms, theadvance was, on the whole, so admirablymanaged that the losses and hardships incidentalto it have been trivial as compared with thoseof similar warlike operations, either in theSoudan or elsewhere. A few facts and figures may help perhaps toimpress this truth upon the minds of those towhom it has not yet been fully brought Haifa, the frontier and advanced post ofoperations, is distant, roughly speaking, 1000miles from Cairo, and all communication had tobe carried on by alternate railway and rivertravel. An army numbering with non-com-batants about 20,000 men, together with theirtransport animals and materials of war, a cameltransport corps of 2000 m
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