. L'armée de Kitchener et les forces territoriales, l'histoire complète d'une grande réalisation ;. Des MiddleAges, elle était insignifiante par le côté des grandes armées qui se rassemblaient sur le continent. Un petit tableau shov.ing l'AS sera vu par le tableau ci-dessus, le seul avantage — et il n'était qu'un avantage de rela- Que la Grande-Bretagne a pendu était la plus grande proportion de fusils shehed au nombre d'hommes sous les armes, butthis avantage est neutralisé par le factque l'Armée indienne autochtone, qui n'est pas inclus dans ce tableau, ne possèdent pas d'armes tout, et dépendent pour leur artillerie sur theBriti

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. Kitchener's army and the territorial forces, the full story of a great achievement ;. of the MiddleAges, it was insignificant by the side ofthe great armies which were gathering onthe Continent. A little table shov.ing the As will be seen by the above table, theonly advantage—and it was merely a rela-tive advantage—which Great Britain pos-sessed was the larger proportion of guns shehad to the number of men under arms, butthis advantage is neutralised by the factthat the Indian Native Army, which is notincluded in this table, possess no guns atall, and depend for their artillery upon theBritish Army. So whilst at first it seemsthat we have one gun to every 380 men, ifwe put in the 200, 000 Indian native troopsserving, the proportion is reduced to onein 580. It mav be said, and, indeed, has been said, that Great Britain, from the insularity ofher position and the protection which herhuge Navy and her narrow seas afford her, is not so greatly in need of an Army as waseither of her great rivals, who have hugefrontier lines to protect and must needs de- Kitcheners Aniiy 5. Photo. Topical.IN INSTANTANEOUS RESPONSE FROM HUNDREDS OFHOWS THE WHITEHALL RECRUITING DEp6t BESIEGED5ER-E THEIR COUNTRY. when frontiers hadterritories ac- quired or lost byt h e belligerentPowers, and itwas just as evi-dent that, greatas might be theinfluence which anaval Powermight exercise inthe course of thewar, the settle-ment and theterms of peacewould be dictatedby the possessorsof large landforces. It was evi-dent, too, from themany signs whichGermany gave usthat she hadaimed for manyvears to secure aworld domination, and lo impose herwill upon thepeoples of theearth. Neces-sarily, Great pend uponseas of armedhumanity toprotect theirgreat indus-trial districtsand theirstrategic posi-tions. This waslargely true;b u t equallytrue was itthat greatarmies ii a vefunctions tofulfil otherthan theactual w i n-ning of bat-tles. It wasevident fromthe beginningthat this warcould onlyend when thewhole o

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