The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-07-10
LORD KITCHENER
RAISED BIG ARMY
Assembled -Four Million, Rath-
or Than One Million.
ENEMIES WERE FOOLED.
Communicated Services Of Press to
Assist Him to Carry Out Great Bluff.
World Press ACCENTED With Stories
Lamenting the Fact That British
Empire Was About to Crumble.

World Press ACCENTED With Stories
Lamenting the Fact That British
Empire Was About to Crumble.
In the July American Magazine APP
pears an exceedingly important article
entitled Lord Kitchener's Great Bluff
Ii Is a report Of how England has Sc
cretly raised an army four times as
big as she has admitted. The details
of the story include an interesting ac-
count of the tremendous part that adj
vertising played In persuading men to
enlist. The author of the article is j..
Herbert Duckworth. Following Is a
brief extract from Mr.. Duckworth's
article:
How Kitchener's army was secretly
increased from 100000 to 100000
men right under the very noses of the
ubiquitous German spies is n 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 ont the
great bluff.
when the British secretary of state
for war first conceived the idea of put
ting into the field 100000 men he real
lied that 1t 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 lamenting the fact that, at
crumble up because the men Of Eng
land had not the pluck To defend II.
The scheme worked out admirably.
Scientific Silence.
The campaign of silence was CON
Quoted ON strictly scientific lines. The
newspaper editors We're first warned
that any indiscretion would mean a
court martial under the defense of the
realm act on charges of having spread
reports likely TO interfere with the sue
cess of his majesty's forces They
were instructed to publish only the re
cruiting returns sent out by the war
office. Independent census 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 w a
camera
lone 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 explain
ed, will mean a court martial and Jail.
Ion what chargesY suffered the
astonished editor.
Never mind answered Lord Kitch-
ener. We will clap you into prison
first and find the charges after the war
is over
Misleading the Spies.
when Ii came to moving the new
troops to France extraordinary precau-
tons 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 inconvenient ports-Bristol, Avon
mouth. Cardiff. Swansea and Barrow,
for example-to French ports as far
from the firing line as St Malo, Brest,
and even Bordeaux, on the west coast,
and Marseilles, on the Mediterranean.
Troop trains were invariably moved
at night with drawn blinds. Often
times they were run halfway around
the country before being sneaked along
side a transport. Not ever the Officers
were aware of their ultimate destina
ton, whether II was to be France
Egypt, India or the Dardanelles.
THE engine drivers were changed
every twenty miles n SO, and the cap
tains OF the troopships received their
final instructions by wireless after they
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