After describing the German defeat in Poland and the action
of Turkey, and dealing with that fruitful source of ineffective dialectic, the Censorship, Lord Kitchener passed on to the vital point, the point in his speech which most of all deserves attention—the question of more men. Unfortu- nately, however, Lord Kitchener failed to come to close quarters with the subject. After conventional, though of course per- fectly reasonable, talk about the need for sound equipment and efficient training, he dealt vaguely, almost "woollily," with the question of numbers. There was real need, he declared, and ample room for all the men who were ready to come forward and serve their country, and when further special calls were made upon the manhood of England he was confident that they would be responded to in a manner which would ensure the prosecution of the war to its successful conclusion.
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