mpression throughout the world that English recruiting was very slow;
but when forced to show down his hand, Kitchener had to admit that
under the call for 100,000 men he had accepted many more and was still
accepting.

Then they raised the call to a million, and in December Kitchener had
more than 1,000,000 men under that call, but I was particular to
ascertain that he had not made a call for a second million. It was all
under the call for 1,000,000 men to arm.

But I did learn from authoritative sources that a house-to-house
canvass, and millions of circulars sent out, had received responses
that showed the War Office where the number of recruits, or men in
training, could be quickly put above 2,000,000 the moment there was
need or room for them.

When England sent her first expeditionary force of 100,000 men to the
Continent there was no public report of how steadily it was augmented.
The official announcement was simply that the line should not be
diminished and that all losses should be made good.

An American acquaintance of mine, whom I found in France fighting in
the uniform of the English, had made the declaration from his quick
perception of the situation at the outset that if before January 1 the
English should have sent over only another 100,000 men, they would have
only 100,000 left there at the end of the year.

I found his estimate of losses correct. The English casualties at the
end of 1914 were over 100,000,--killed, wounded, prisoners, and
missing,--or fully the number of the first Expeditionary Force.

Yet every week and every month the forces of the English grew larger
and never smaller. The filling in of the gaps and the augmentation of
the English forces and their maintenance, munitions, and supplies was
but the smaller part of the work of the War Office.

The great problem was to compass the situation as a worldwide war and
summon and put into an effective fighting machine the resources of the
Empire.

"Not alone the men but the machinery," said Kitchener, "must win this
war."

England had to put into operation machinery, financial and diplomatic,
machinery of men, guns, and transportation, belting the whole world and
bringing the whole forward as a complete organization, yielding here
and pressing forward there, but always firmly pressing to the one
desired end--the crushing, crumpling and destroying of the war
machinery of Germany. At the beginning England could not turn out
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