GENERAL WINGATE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 802, 22 January 1910, Page 3

GENERAL WINGATE.

General Winguto has held the position of Sirdar longer than any other man, and there arc good reasons for believing that he is very reluctant to give it up, despite the fact that ho could have a first-class position at Home if ho so desired, He is in manner as unlike the average soldier as could well bo imagined, and people who have been introduced to him as Sir Reginald Wingate have been known to converse with him for ha![-an-hour and then to make inquiries as to his profession. He is extremely modest, about his achievement, and declares that had it not been for two men Lord Kitchener and Sir Rudolf Slatin —he would never have reached the position that is his to-day. ft was left perhaps for Lord Grenfell to describe General Wingate’s value lo the. Egyptian Army in the neatest, fashion. “Kitchener.” lie onco said, “created the army to re-eoiiquor the Hondan. Wingate has so moulded that army that the .Soudan will never bo lost.”