"These must be used judiciously and effectively. I have no complaint whatever to make about the response to my appeals for men. The progress of their military training' is most remarkable and the country may well be proud of her recruits, but I want more men and still more men till the enemy is crushed. Our losses in the trenches are severe and will act as an inventive to British manhood."
Lord Kitchener paid a heartfelt eulogy to the British Army. Field-Marshal Sir John French and the Generals under his command, he said, have displayed military quali. ties of the highest order and the same level of courage and efficiency has been maintained throughout all ranks. The enemy, also, must reckon with the forces of the great Dominions, whose vanguard we have already welcomed in very fine bodies of men. Besides these there are training in Great Britain over a million and a quarter men who are eagerly awaiting the call to take their place in the field to sustain the credit of the British Army, which never stood higher than it' stands to-day.
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