EARL KITCHENER'S PLANS.
PREPARING FOR LONG WAR. FOUR ARMIES BEING RATED. 2 Received this day, 8.50 a.m. London, Friday. Earl Kitchener, in the Home of Lords, paid a tribute to Sir John French's consummate skill and calm courage in withdrawing bis force in face of vastly superior numbers. He added the struggle is bound to be a long one. Britain now had m the field Bix divisions and two cavalry divisions, which were maintained at full strength by steady reinforcements and also by drawing on overseas' garrisons and replacing them by territorials whereof a division had already been sent to Egypt and a brigade to Malta. Four armies are now being raised. £wo were collected at training centres, a third was being formed, and a fourth, consisting of reserves, would be utilised to feed the expeditionary forces. He was confident our new armie3 would be ready and well trained to take the field in the spring, and prove themselves formidable opponents
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 705, 19 September 1914, Page 5
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161EARL KITCHENER'S PLANS. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 705, 19 September 1914, Page 5
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