. Kitchener's army and the territorial forces, the full story of a great achievement ;. Sheffield,instead of manu-facturing silver-plate goods,worked s e \ e ndays a weekto provide theArmy with itsbayonets and itssteel-ware; \\ol- mingham provided small arms and high ex-plusives; the mills of I 1 udderstield andDewsbury worked at full pressure to clothethe .Vrmy warmly, liven ladies dress-makers were hard at work on soldiersuniforms—you might take the railway guideof England and go through all the greatindustrial towns, and sav of each: Thisdid something to help forward the greatcause. We owe,
. Kitchener's army and the territorial forces, the full story of a great achievement ;. Sheffield,instead of manu-facturing silver-plate goods,worked s e \ e ndays a weekto provide theArmy with itsbayonets and itssteel-ware; \\ol- mingham provided small arms and high ex-plusives; the mills of I 1 udderstield andDewsbury worked at full pressure to clothethe .Vrmy warmly, liven ladies dress-makers were hard at work on soldiersuniforms—you might take the railway guideof England and go through all the greatindustrial towns, and sav of each: Thisdid something to help forward the greatcause. We owe, said a member of the Russiancommission which visited lingland in thecourse of the war, a very great debt ofgratitude to industrial England. It is amaz-ing that, with the .\rmy she is putting inthe field, with the great Xavv she supports,and with the calls which are made upon herin her oversea wars, that she is able to con-tinue to be as she is-power in the world. the greatest industrial The Man who Planned it The man to whom Great Britain isindebted for the accomplishment of this. A liUGLE COMPAW, ;|;D OlICEN VRfOUIAs , (. IN Kli IIMONH PARK. verhampton was bus\- dav and nightpreparmg great stocks of leather forharness, saddle, and eciuipmenl ; the fac-tories of Northampton turned out iiimdrcdsof thousands of pairs of boots; Bir- miracle is Lord Kitchener; it was not onlyto his genius for that theraising of this new .Army was possible, butwhat is e\en of greater moment, it wasLord l\iiclu-ner who at the very outset saw 1^8 Kitchener s A rniy
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