The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-27
From the Boston Herald.

From the Boston Herald.
 Tor much is heard of Lord Kltch-
 N ener. Like Roberts. the great
 l soldier in whose footsteps he foi-
 lowed ..he does not advertise" He says little and sticks to work. And not much is
 hoard of "I<itchener's army" Probably
 +he German forces in west Flanders ana the northwest corner of France Know
 better where the bulk of it is than the
 British people do. For there IL IS d.
 ,uorL and it has torn to shreds the Ger
 man plan for the capture Of Caials. Al tha beginning of the war the Brltlsh proii'
 ise was to put 600000 men on the franco-
 Belgian front. All these have been useu
 m. and in their place stand about l,5oo'- .nn covering a wider front and havlng
 o deeper formation extending from the
 Erench shore of the English channel. No-
 bodv outside the war office or the cap
 met war committee knows how many
 there are in Egypt, in Arabia, on the
 Tigris and the Euphrates, at the Balkah
 bass or in East Africa, but It IS known
 that the 250 900 or 300000 men now pelns
 called up for training will complete an
 army of 4,0Oc O00. Besides maintaining anu
 evening strengthening her position as the
 greatest naval power. Britain has ao-
 vancod into the front rank of the military
 movers And she owes not httle to
 Kitchener, whose genius for army organ
 ibzation has been to her tower or
 strength in the most trying period Of her national existence.
 The war office does not tell of the posi- tions that are held by troops in Belgium and France It's bulletins are brief ana it's lists of casualties far between. but if cannot help mentioning the names or some battlefields, of points where the ar tillery fire is hottest, of enemy redoupts which the infantry charge, or of places that border or bound the long lines Of entrencbments. By means of these names we may trace the front on which the Brit ish army stands. Beginning on the left wing of the neighborhood of Oostveteren, it extends southeastward by way of Boe- singhe and Ypres to Confines, the twin Belgian and French towns on the two banks of the Lys, eight miles north or Lille. Entering France it passes by Ques- | nov and Lille to Loos. curves southwest through Fournes, Neuve Chapelle and La Eassee and thence goes southeast to the River Somme, where the British soldiers i come shoulder to shoulder with the Fl ench This is front of Co miles, with the heart of it in the vicinity of Loos' which is about the same number of miles southwest of Calais.
 l The fighting along large part Of tms | line seems incessant, the Germans trying | to discover some weak spot where they might break through toward the sea, and | the British holding them at bay or re- tortipg with attempts on German trenches On March ? what is called the second phase of this years fight for the van | taee spots at the shoulder of the Ypres salient was begun between the Ypres' 1 Confines canal and railway. with all arms of the land and air services engaged, anc inc northern and midland territorial reg iments rushing German trenches, says . correspondent. "in charge that would have been historically famous in earlier l lesser wars" Since then the official bull letins have given glimpses of an extended arsa. Tbjs week one communication re- ports attacks and counter-attacks neal
 Boesinghc. about Loos. the Hohenzol