Weekly journal-miner., 1915-06-30
HOW KITCHENER
 RAISED ARMY OF 100000
(From Fridays Daily.)

 times as big as she has admitted. The details of the story include an inter csting account of the tremendous part that advertising played in per suadlng men to enlist.
 The author of the article is ]. Her bert Duckworth, of whom the editors of the American Magazine say in a note:
 MT. Duckworth is an Englishman belonging to family of well-known 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 remained most of the time. During the winter, because of his un- usual opportunities for getting inside information pertaining to England's part in the war, he came conhden- tially into possession of the facts in this article. On account of the strict censorship imposed by Lord Kitchen CT, no English journal has published them, and in truth, few Englishmen have known the real facts. Indeed Mir. Duckworth himself has been un- willing, until now, to communicate rtfbliC1,y ,r,bof Ia he 1aarppd v
 How Army Was Raised.
 Following is brief extract from Mir. Duckworth's article: "How Kitchener's army was secret 1y increased from 100000 to 4,OO0,- GOO 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 100000 men, he realized that it would be grave strategic blunder to allow the enemy to know what was really afoot. | Rather, the game should be to call for 100000 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 worked out admirably.
 Campaign of Silence.
 'The campaign of silence was con ducted on strictly scientific lines. The newspaper editors were first warned that any indiscretion would mean court martial under the Defense of the Realm Act, on charges of having spread reports likely to interfere with the success of his majesty's forces They were instructed to publish only the recruiting returns sent out by the war office. Independent census-tak- ing was strictly forbidden. All articles on the new army, and even pictures Of soldiers, had first to be submitted to the censor. A permit was required even to own camera.
 "One 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.
 GA second indiscretion,' he ex- plained, will mean a court martial and jail
 "'On what charges?' suffered the astonished editor.
 Would Find Charges Later.
 "'Never mind, answered Lord Kitchener; we will clap you into pris' on first, and find the charges after the war IS over
 When it came to moving the new troops to France extraordinary pre- cautions were taken 10 mislead the spies. The regiments were not all transported from Southampton to Boulogne or Havre. Instead they were shipped from what were really out of the way and inconvenient ports-Bristol, Monmouth, Cardiff, Swansea and Barrow, for example, to French ports as far from the firing line as St. Malo, Brest, and even Bor- deaux on the west coast and Mar seilles on the Mediterranean.
 Troop trains were invariably nov ed at night with drawn blinds. Often times they were run half way around the country before being sneaked alongside a transport. Not even the officers were aware of their ultimate l cstination-whcther it was to be France, Egypt, India or the Darda- nclles. The engine drivers were changed l every twenty miles or so, and the cap tains of the troop ships received their final instructions bv wireless after