... THE NEW BRITISH SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR : FIELD-MARSHAL LORD KITCHENER Th P s Army ha [photograph by Bassano.] ENER The Prime Minister having given up that office, Lord Kitchener has been appointed Secretary of State for War, his post in Egypt being ...

... OLD WAR MINISTER AND NEW : LORDS HAL DANE AND KITCHENER AT THE WAR OFFICE. g m.—[Photograph by L.iV-4.] It was officially announced on August 6 that Lord Kitchener had been appointed Minister of War in suc¬ cession to the Prime Minister, who had held ...

... had its full equipment Every man carried his campaigning kit, and the column was accom¬ panied by baggage wagons and field kitchens. In the rear rode General Lloyd, who commanded the Grenadiers for three years during the South African War.—\Photograph ...

... further regarding the proposed expeditionary force, Australia in 1911 adopted a new scheme of defence recommended by Lord Kitchener.—[By ...

... THE KITCHENER OF FRANCE : GENERAL JOFFRE, THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF Gl Jff th CdiChif f th Fnh Ar h hiiti bhhiii ON WHOM THE FRENCH ARMY RELIES- Joffre, the of the Army, has won his position by the exhibition of much the same qualities as those for which ...

... souvenirs. The men on their part remembered Kitchener's words. A Telegraph «..respondent writes: Not a rough word or coarse jest escapes a soldie. s lips to-night A grand spirit animates them. If Earl Kitchener could see these fellows to-night he would ...

... on Sunday and after dark with the enemy in the neighbourhood of Möns, and held their ground. On the following day, Lord Kitchener, in his maiden speech on the situation Q in the House of Lords, said : Our troops have already been for thirty-six hours ...

... cavalry division, besides other troops from India. The first division of these troops is now on its way. Such was Lord Kitchener's epoch-making announcement in Parliament on August 28. Lord Crewe, as Secretary of State for India, added this : It has ...

... of Aug^t 27, most oí them in the best of spirts and eager to get weU enough to go back. It will tí remembered that Lord Kitchener said on the 25th = °r tI~PS¿ already beer for thirty-six hours in contact with a superior force. Most of those who bore ...

... The troops offered a superb and most stubborn resistance to the tremendous odds by which tney were confronted. So Lord Kitchener said on August 30 of the way our men have faced the Germans. The British Army, declared the French Commander-in-Chief, ...

... Commander-in-Chief ¡in dark uniform next to the I ¡ ; foreground). reorganised the Russian Army. He has been called the Russian Kitchener. After the Battle of the Marne the Tsar sent a congratulatory telegram to President Poincaré, who replied : France . ...

... paid to the bravery sho.vn by the men of the forces now in the fieid. In his speech in the House of Lords on the 17th, Lord Kitchener said : 44 The gallant French armies, with whom we are so proud to be co-operating, will receive every support from our troops ...