STRIKING TRIBUTE
KITCHENER EULOGISED WAR-TDME ORGANISATION (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.} LONDON, Dee. 4. - A striking tribute to the late Lord Kitchener was,made by Sir George Arthur, his biographer, at the annual dinner of the Kitchener Scholars.' As- i soeiation. i "Kitchener told me," he said, "the very day he entered the War Office that he was determined that 70 divisions should be England's contribution to the war. Sixteen months - later he was able to say that 68 were afoot and two were being moulded... A few weeks after the war began Kitchener told me that it was most, important that the British "army should reach its full strength hy the beginning of the third year. In" July, 1017, precisely the moment he had arranged, the. British - armies reached high water mark."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16209, 6 December 1926, Page 7
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