NEW GOVERNOR OF NATAL

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 692, 17 December 1909, Page 7

NEW GOVERNOR OF NATAL

GENEEAL LOED METHUEN. (By Tolesrapn-Prejs Aiaoclatlan-CopyrlshU , (Kec, Docembcr 16, 8.45 p.m.) : .:':'•• London, December 16. General- Lord Methuon, who has' been: General Officer Commanding-in-Chiof in South Africa since 1907, has been appointed Governor of Natal in succession to -Lieut.-Col.: Sir Matthew Nathan, who was recently appointed Sec-, retary to the British Post Office. ' '

METHUEN'S SOUTH AFRICAN RECORD. According to a: contemporary, "those Who served''under .Lord Methuon's . : command •in the western part of British South Africa; during tho weary 'moving up and down again'if the war's later stages, are the last to admitany word jri his. dispraise. In no "region of the campaign was the prolonged strain,upon under-fed, ovier-ni arched men moro . severe, and tho dutiful, quiet patience.'of the General under whom .all this was carried on had no little share in making it,possible. When he was captured almost at the end.'after ;an. affair in which 'indifferent' would bo a polite word for somo of the scratch troops engaged, every decent manfelt a keen sorrow of. a personal kind, relieved by the chivalrous behaviour of De La Bey (his captor)..■'. Lord llethuen s soldierly persistence; had gone far to wear down the, severity of. those who had been most critical' as". to his earlier operations. '.'. . . From first to last, sheer bad luck clung to him more than to any othor commander of such rank. • This was the harder ;in .that Lord Methuen . had 'consistently done well and; successfully before, in the Ashanti War. as Military Attache in Berlin, at Kassassin and TeUcl-Kebir, ,in command of Methucn's Horse.in, Bechuanaland, and ; -in command of tho Home District." Lord MothuenJs the third Baron, and is C 4 years of age. ■'. . .:,'.-.....-■