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Show ENGLAND BENT ON CRUSHINGGERMANY LEADERS DECLARE COUNTRY IS PREPARED TO CARRY WAR TO SUCCESSFUL END. Lord Kitchener Says the War Will be a Long One and He Will Require Re-quire More Men Until the Enemy is Crushed. London. That England Is pre pared to carry on the war indefinitely with every confidence in the resull was the tenor of the speeches at the annual banquet inaugurating the new-lord new-lord mayor of London at Guildhall Monday night, delivered by the men who are responsible for the conduct of the war. Notable speeches were made by Prime Minister Asquith, Field Marshal Mar-shal Earl Kitchener, secretary for war, and Winston Spencer Churchill first lord of the admiralty. Lord Kitchener, whose massive figure, clad in service khaki, towered above the audience of a thousand men and women in the historic building, while expressing satisfaction at the response to his call for men and the progress of their military training, impressed upon the nation that the war would require "more men, and still more, until the enemy is crushed." crush-ed." He also made a quiet reference to England's army, which, he said, "has proved itself to be not so con temptible an engine of war as some were disposed to consider it," and reminded re-minded his hearers that the enemy would, besides the army in the field, have to reckon with the forces of the great dominions, the vanguard ol which had arrived in England, in addition ad-dition to the million and a quarter men now training in this country. |
