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Show LORD KITCHENER MAKEHEPORT London, Nov. 20, 5:18 p m "The Russians have defeated the Germans with the heaviest losses yet suffered; the Germans have made no advance since I last addressed this house." ajid, "the British are In touch with Turkish forces thirty miles east of the Suez canal." were the sallentg f a speech made by Field Marshal Earl Kitchener in the house of lords this afternoon when the Rriti-h secretary of 6tate for war summarized the military mili-tary operations Lord Kitchener paid a tribute to the gallantry of the Belgian army and to the king of the Belgians, who, be declared, had no intention of quitting Belgian territory. He sold the losses of the allies were sreat. Dut at the same time were slicht compared with those of the enemy and that the allied al-lied troops were in excellent spirits and confident of success. The Russians, he announced, have del.-. ned the Germans with heavier losses than the latter ever suffered before, More Soldiers Needed. Regarding recruiting, Earl Kitchener Kitchen-er said he still had room for men, and he was confident that the men would answer the country's e-all and see that the war was brought to a successful conclusion. He said that about thirty thousand recruits were enlisting weekly. week-ly. "The time will come when we shall reauire manv more, and I will then! make It thoroughly well known,", the Field marshal said, and added that in the meantime all the gaps In the Brit ish force on the continent had been filled. Referring to the German advance on Dunkirk and Calais after the capture cap-ture of Antwerp. Lord Kitchener men-1 tioned that in spite of the overw helm ing number of the German forces the British troops vigorously attacked, and a British cavalry division extending extend-ing over seven miles of trenches threw back the fierce attacks of a whole German army corps for more' than two days. The arrival of the j Indians on the scene, he 6aid, proved to be a great advantage, and when j the fresh reinforcements pushed forward for-ward the German march on Calais was Btopped. (-raise Allies. Ixird Kitchener spoke of the splendid splen-did fighting qualities of the French troops and of the "pluck of the gallant Belgian army, whose fine resistance had been strengthened and encouraged encour-aged by the co-operation of the British Brit-ish fleet, which had erfectively shelled shell-ed the German artillery positions " Sir John French's successful resistance resist-ance to the German advance, Lord Kitchener told the lords, was maintained main-tained notwithstanding that the German Ger-man supports had been pushed up in large numbers. "In the early days of November.' ! he continued, "no less than eleven army corps were attacking the British position At this critical period the Eighth division was dispatched from England to join the forces in the field and the valuable co-operation of our allies on our left materially strengthened strength-ened the British position. "On November 11 a supreme effort was made by the Germans. The Prussian Prus-sian guard was ordered to force Its way through our lines at all costs and to 'carry them by sheer weight of numbers. But this desperate attempt at-tempt failed like its predecessor. Given Short Rest. "Strong French reinforcements occupied oc-cupied a considerable portion of the British trenches in front of Ypres, and with their front thus appreciably shortened, the British troops, which for over fourteen days and nights had never left the trenches or allowed the enemy to maintain a footing in them, were enabled to enjoy a partial well-earned well-earned rest." Several battalions of territorials, the secretary for war announced, had joined the British forces and had made themseh es felt. Referring to the lateBt phase in the conflict raging in Russian Poland, Lord Kitchener said: After a hotly contested battle the reinforced Russian troops jn this neighborhood have been able to check and defeat the Germans with, 1 believe, be-lieve, heavier losses than they ever sustained before." Lord Kitchener also briefly touched on the Turkish intervention," and said that the Russians successfully were advancing in the Caucasus, while an Indian expeditionary force had twice defeated the Turks at the head of the Persian gulf, where they had occupied the important town of Basra and were also in touch with a Turkish force thirty miles to the cast of the Suez j canal. |