Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-03-29

W q Separate government department
with cabinet minister. Lloyd Georee
at its head
Center of War Work.
Yet the war office still remains the
throbbng center Of the war work
here the larger questions of strategy
and the campaigns in various thea
tefs OF the war are worked out; here
the army council and the imperial
general staff, hold their meetings. and
here the many branches of military
work ramify from the headquarters
of Lord Kitchener, General Sir w
Robertson, chief of the imperial
staff; Lieut.. General Sir II. Sclater
adjutant to the forces: Lieut.. General
Sir |. Cowans. auartermaster general,
and the two members of parliament
who represent the civilian brancn
and keep the war branch in touch
with parliament, Mr.. Tenant, parlia-
mentary under secretary for war, and
Mr. Foster, financial secretary for
war with Sir Reginald Brade as Sec
rotary of the war office and of the
war council.
1t was difficult TO get into the war
office. and more difficult to get out
like the continental railway system.
Guards turn away all those without
papers from authorized sources. stat
ing definite purpose for the visit
and fixed time. Passing this bar
rier, ones name and address is taken.
and permit issued, and the address,
es are always available if Scotland
Yard wishes to investigate the ante
cedents of anyone making unauthoriz-
ed inquiries.
Within the building there is an air
OF work under high pressure and with
rigid military discipline, with many
officers in uniform, old soldiers as
messengers, and the boy scouts and
girl messengers also in uniform, the
girls in brown khaki dress and blouse
with brass buttons and q brass de-
vice on the collar.
There are two outstanding figures
of interest at the war office just now
Lord Kitchener. the supreme head
of the whole establishment. Lord Der
by. whose scheme for increasing the
army has brought him very much in
the public eye, while across the road,
at the Horse Guards is Field Marshall
French, now Lord French Of Ypres,
who as commander of home defense,
is now directing home defenses in
general and the aircraft defenses i'll
particular Lord Kitchener's windows
look out on the busy traffic OF
Whitehall, with the mounted horse
guards across the way, and the bronze
equestrian statue of the Duke of Cam
bridge, in sweeping plume and full
regalia of a field marshal, at the
entrance. The offices are stately,
with portraits of distinguished war
ministers. But under Kitchener they
have taken on an air of the camp
with maps all about and on the walls
indicating the campaigns in many
fields of British operation--in Flan-
ders. at Saloniki. in Egypt and Meso-
potamia, and of ally operations on
the Austro-Italian front, in Russia,
and other points.
Kitchener Always in Uniform.
Lord Kitchener comes and goes, al
ways as a soldier, in uniform. lie
goes in uniform to Buckingham pal
ace for his conferences with the king,
and in uniform to the house of lords,
policies on the war. His
busy hours at headquarters are in the
morning and at night, attending war
councils seeing the chief staff offl-
GERS and directing plans. He APP
pears always calm and unruffled IN
the mass of details pressing from ev-
cry side. and he returns the salutes
of soldiers along the corridors witn
the same Difference they give hlm'
like Washington, who bowed to his
servants because he would not permit
his subordinates to Guido him IN
courtesy.
Lord Derbys quarters are across
the corridor, and though he is a civil
ian and wears no uniform, he is sur
rounded by a military staff and is 40
ing one of the most important mill
tary works. establishing reser-
voir," he calls it, which will supply
a steady stream of recruits as the
military authorities need them. In
stead of war maps, Lord Derby has
a map of the United Kingdom hans-