New Britain herald., 1916-06-06
KITCHENER LOST
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men. She displaced 1O,S5O tons and was 450 feet long. Her armament consisted of four r. 5 inch, six 6-inch, two 12-pound and twenty 3-pound guns and two torpedo tubes.
 The Hampshire has been in use as a scout boat and for carrying officials on various missions. She was too old to oN>take a place on the fighting line. She was one of the British squadron which was sent to this country for the Jamestown Exposition in 1907. Organized Greatest Volunteer Army
 Of several things that entitle Eari Kitchener to a place in world history the most notable is that he organized tire largest volunteer army the world has ever seen, in the greatest war of all times.
 Within a year from the sudden out break of the European war in August 1914, the ranks of British fighting men were quadupled by an increase from less than one million to nearly 100000
 All other Great Powers that en- tered the war had huge standing armies and compulsory military ser
 
 issue with confidence that it's people would readily respond to the call of King and Country without com pulsion, and the precipitous develop ments that led to the war found both the people and the government un- animous in the verdict that Kitchener of Khartum was the man to lead in the recruiting and organization of the necessary army.
 It was not a sentimental clamOr for though Kitchener was a proven hero of many campaigns, his person. allty was as impenetrabie as hardened steel, and he was not hero that could be loved; even the War Office had no pronounced liking for him, but on all sides there was profound respects for his military efficiency and for all he had done to extend the domains of the British empire.
 By mere luck Kitchener happened to be in England on one of the com paratively rare visits that he had paid to London during his long career abroad when the European war broke out. He had just come home from service as British agent in Egypt, had accepted an Earldom from King George, and was being talked of as
 
 after Englands declaration of war, ; Kitchener was appointed Secretary of State for War and immediately took full charge at the War Office where he worked day and night to i overcome the handicap which the Central Powers had over England in . the matter of fighting strength.
 Talks Right Up. He grimly told the British people they had a bigger war on their hands than they realized, and one that might last longer than they expected, but it was to be faced with entie con- confidence, and he, unsniling, almost like dehumanized machine set about to make things hum. He had scarcely moved into Whitehall street when he made numerous changes in ; the personnel of the War Office which . was said to be honeycombed with so- i cial and political favoritism. 1
 After dispatching a few hundred ] thousand regulars to France a<d Bel ! gium to help check the onrushing Germans, the War Secretary began i recruiting and organizing his army 1 aof millions. The British Isles were ]! covered with signs and posters urg- 1 ing young men to join the colors. : hltcnener went through country Su- ! perintending the drilling of the army. i From time to time were reports in- l dicating his failure to get the num- {! Der of men he wanted, but within year after the war opened Premier i; Asquith officially announced in Par liament Kingdom that about 3,OOO,000 men had enlisted in the United Kingdom alone, and almost another million in. the overseas do- minions.
 Kitchener, however, was the ob- ject of no little criticism. There was much grumbling because of the strict censorship he imposed on newspapers and his utter disregard for war cor respondents. Notwithstanding this the British newspapers gave him active support prior to May 1915. During the winter months the war secretary had announced the "big drive" would begin about the first of May. The May, and England believed this was the beginning of the big drive. Short ly afterWard, reports reached Eng land that the drive had halted owing to a shortage of munitions especially high explosive shells. A section of the London press then declared that Kitchener had made a serious mistake nel and insufficient high explosives. Newspaper attacks went so far as to