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Show ! KITCHENER OFF TO THE EASTERN THEApFll i Object of Field Marshal's ; Trip Not Officially An-, An-, nounced, but There Are Numerous Surmises. LONDON, Not. 6, 6:20 p. m. It was officially announced this evening that Field Marshal Earl Kitchener had gone to the eastern theater of "war. It is generally assumed Earl Kitchener Kitchen-er has gone to the east with the immediate imme-diate object of rearranging the military personnel at the front and effecting, in oonjunotion with the allied nations, some central organization to control the scheme of military operations. This will be likely to occupy his entire attention at-tention for some time. Whether, when his task is accomplished, accom-plished, he will return to the war office, is not known. It is not thought Premier Pre-mier Asquith would undertake the burden bur-den of prolonged tenure of the war portfolio, in ' addition to hia present heavy labors. "When the vote of credit is introduced by the premier in the house of commons com-mons Wednesday there will be full opportunity op-portunity for debate and for the extraction ex-traction of such information as the government will furniEh. The London News agency claims to have authority for the statement that Earl Kitohener intends to remain in office as secretary of war until the end of the war. Official Statement. The official statement reads: Earl Kitchener, at the request of his colleagues, has left England for a short visit to the eastern theater of war. "It la generally believed," says the Post, "that Earl Kitchener's business will necessitate a stay so prolonged that : it will be necessary to fill his place at the war office before long. It is true that he has not resigned, but the importance im-portance of his present erTand makes it certain that his resignation is only delayed. "The suggestion has been made that Lord Haldaue be brought back to the war oflice, but this is probably unfounded. un-founded. ' ' Reiteration of the report thnt Karl Kitchener had placed his resignation as secretary for war in the hands of the king has brought forth an official report re-port to the contrary. Visited the King. According to the Daily Graphic, Knrl Kitchener saw the king Thursday night,- as was announced yesterday, at the king's own request. The Graphic, urging the government not to delay disclosure of the actual facts, suggests that Lord Derby, who is now in charge of British recruiting, would make an excellent war minister. Comment in the morning newspapers indicated a belief in some quarters that the sudden development regarding Karl Kitchener related to the visit or General Gen-eral .Toffre, the French commander-in-chief, to London recentlv. Jo this connection con-nection the Weekly Nation made an interesting in-teresting revelation. "General Joffre's visit," it steysf "has been one of the personal sensations sensa-tions of the war. Our politicians ex- pected to find a strategist : they saw, rather, the orator and enthusiast. It would not be right to pay they were carried off their feet, but the air has been magnetic, and resulting decisions have been rapid. Who, on such authority, au-thority, can dispute them?" Possibilities of Situation. The Daily Chronicle editorially points out the various possibilities of the situation, sit-uation, first, the probability of a marked addition to the importance of the general gen-eral staff in London, tho tendency of which would be to separate clearly the administrative responsibilities of the chief of staff and make the war minister's min-ister's role different from that wh irh Karl Kitchener hitherto had filled. Secondly, it added, there was a remote possibility of some kind of joint staff being constituted by tha allies at Pans for the purpose of pooling military councils. "If this were donft," fays this Chrnn icle. "the head Of tho Britih fetion would manifestly occupy ft very impor-tantposition. impor-tantposition. "Thirdly," adds the Chrnnb-le, "it-is "it-is possible that in view of tho importance impor-tance of our near eastern armies, some higher eastern command might bn constituted con-stituted to co-ordinatfl their action. For such a post, Lord Kitchener 's peculiar pe-culiar authority in Oriental matter might be thought to mark him out. Fourthly, there are a number of prub ilems entering more closely to 1 ndin. " The policy of the British government in rea pet of both tho Dardanelles ex-rieditinn ex-rieditinn and the Serbian campaign has ben subjected to err re erit icim In Krgland. and. if th tatemnt of tlm Poat is correct, the war fwrctarv pre--mmarblv has ben sent to thp near ent to determine bv personal irsnction the proper policy for Grat Britain, or to supervise snm movement of importnuefl already decided upon. Rumors Set at Rest. The following was i?ued officially tonight : The statement that Earl Kitchener Kitch-ener h;is resigned his post secretary secre-tary of state for war h;in already been authoritatively denied. It is equally untrue to sutrtrest that Karl Kitchener has tender. -d his resignation, resigna-tion, or that, hi visit to the king had any relation to that subject or that his visit to the eastern theater of war in anv way betokens that such resignation l'a contemplated. contem-plated. On the contrary, this vnt in undertaken un-dertaken by him in- discharge- of his dutv as secretary of state for war, which duty ho has no intention inten-tion of abandoning. |