The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-07-07
TELLS Of BLUFF
PULLED BY GEN.
KIT CHE N { R
HOW Not ONE MILLION, But
FOUR MILLION MEN WERE
RECRUITED

pcar1 an exceedingly important ar
tiels entitled Lord Kitchener's Great
Bluff" Il .s a report OF how Eng
land has -e,retly raised an army four
tines as big as she has admitted.
Tho Details Of the story include an
Interesting account Of the tremendous
part that advertising played in per-
suadins men to enlist
Tho 4as..a. c. The article is J. Her
bert Duckworth. OF whom the editors
Of The American Magazine say in a
note.
eMr. Duckworth Is an Englishman
belonging to family of wellknown
London and Liverpool journalists.
but for the past ten years. with the
exception OF two years in London, he
has lived. most of the time. in New
York, where he has been connected
with newspapers. AT the outbreak OF
the war he went to England, where
he has e1ained most Of the time.
During the winter, because of his nn-
usual opportunities for getting inside
information pertaining to England's
part in the war, he came confidential
" into possession of the facts in this
article. On account of the strict
censorship imposed by Lord Kitchen
er. no English journal has published
them, and in truth, few Englishmen
have known the real facts. Indeed,
Mr. Duckworth himself has been un-
willing, until now, to communicate
publicly what he has learned
Following Is brief extract from
Mr. Duckworth's article:
"How Kitehener's Army was sec
retly increased from one million to
four million men right under the very
noses of the ubiquitous German spies
| is one of the most amazing stories of
the war.
This grim joke on the Kaiser was
concocted by Lord Kitchener himself.
He Communicated the services OF the
press to assist him to carry out the
great bluff
| "When the British secretary of state
for war first conceived the idea of
| putting into the field four million
men. he realized that it would be a
grave strategic blunder to allow the
enemy to know what was really afoot.
Rather. the game should be to call
for a million men, and then press
agent the world with stories lament
ing the fact that, at last, the British
Empire was about to crumble up be-
cause the men of England had not the
pluck to defend it. The scheme work
ed out admirably.
"The campaign of silence was con-
Quoted on strictly scientific lines
The newspaper editors were first
warned that any indiscretion would
mean a court martial under the De-
Tense Of the Realm Act, on charges
OF having spread reports likely to in
terfere with the success of His Mai
esty's Forces They were instructed
to publish only the recruiting returns
sent out by the war office lndepend-
ent census taking was strictly for
bldden. All articles on the new ar
my and even pictures Of soldiers
had first to be submitted to the cen
sor A permit was required even to
own a camera,
zone London editor refused to
stay put. He published a picture Of
some soldiers without the permission
Of the censor. Lord Kitchener sent
for the offender
"'A second indiscretion, he ex-
planned will mean court-martial
and Jail
"'on what chargesT suffered the
editor
Never mind, answered Lord |
Kitchener; we will clap you into
prison first, and find the charges af-
Ter the war is over J
When It came to moving the new |
troops to France extraordinary pre-
were taken to mislead the
spies. The regiments were not all
transported from southampton to
Boulogne or Hayre. Instead they
we're shipped from what were really
put Of the way and inconvenient ports
-Briaton. monmouth, Cardiff Swan
'ea and Barrow for example.-to
French ports as far from the firing
inc a. st. Malo, Brest and even Bor-
Ieaux on the west coast and Marseil-
es on the Mediterranean.
Troop trains were invariably nov
-. .s1t ,,-fth drawn blinds Of-