The Republican journal., 1915-07-01
Not 100000 But 100000
How Lord Kitchener Has Secretly Raised
for England an Army Four Times
as Big as Has Been Admitted.

How Lofd hltcnener Has Secretly RAISED
for England an Army Four Times
as Big as Has Been Admitted.
In the July American Magazine alp
pears an exceedingly important article
entitled Lord Kitcht ner's Great Bluff. :"
1t is a report of how England has secret
Iy raised an army four times rs big as
she has admitted The details of the
story include an interesting account of
the tremendous part that advertising
played in persuading men to enlist.
The author of the article is j. Herbert
Duckworth, of whom the editors of The
American Magazine say in note:
"Mr. Duckworth is an Englishman be-
longing to family of wel-known Lon
don and Liverpool journalists, but for
two years in London, he has lived, most
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 I'M
usual opportunities for getting inside in
formation pertaining to England's part
in the war, he came confdentially into
possession of the facts in this article.
On account of the strict censorship I'M
posed by Lord Kitchener, no English
journal has published them, and in truth,
few Englishmen have known the real
facts. Indeed, Mr.. Duckworth himself
has been unwilling, until now, to com
municate publicly what he has learned. -
Following is brief extract from Mr..
Duckworth's article:
"How Kitchener's Army was secretly
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 put
ting into the field four million men, he
realized that it would be grave strate-
gic bunder to allow the enemy to know
what was really afoot. Rather, the game
should be to call flor Ia million men, and
then press-agent the world with stories
lamenting the fact that, at last, the Brit
ish Empire was about to crumble up be-
cause the men of England had not the
pluck to defend it. The scheme worked
out admirably.
1.-The campaign of silence was con-
Quoted 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 in
structed to publish only the recruiting
returns sent out by the War Office. In
dependent taking 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 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 explained,
will mean court-martial and jail
"On what charges?' suffered the as
tonished editor
"sNever mind,' answered Lord Kich-
ener; we will clap you into prison first,
and find the charges after the war is
over
"When it came to moving the new
troops to France extraordinary precau-
lions were taken to 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 incon-
venient ports Bristol, Avonmouth, Car
diff, 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 Marseilles
on the Mediterranean.
"Troop trains were invariably moved
at night with drawn blinds. Oftentlmes
they were run half way around the coun-
try before being sneaked alongside a
transport. Not even the officers were
aware of their ultimate destination
whether it was to be France, Egypt, In
dia, or the Dardanelles.
''The engine drivers were changed
every twenty miles or so, and the cap
tains of the troop ships received their
final instructions by wireless after they
had put to sea-