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Show GREAT CROWDS HEAR KITCHENER Field Marshal Presents Special Recruiting Plan "More and Still More Men" Is Keynote. London, July 9, 1:50 p. m Great crowds assembled In and around Guild hall and the routes leading to lt this afternoon, to hear Field Marshal Earl Kitchener address a meeting to Inaugurate In-augurate a special recruiting plan. Earl Kitchener's subject was on "Tho Need of Further Hecmitlng for tho Army," but tfio enthusiasm of the meeting and tho crowdB which appeared ap-peared were attributed to tho public's pub-lic's spontaneous desire to demonstrate demon-strate Its confidence in tho field marshal mar-shal hi tho face of the attacks a certain cer-tain press has been making against him. "Moro men and still more men," said Earl Kitchener, sounding the key-1 note of his address, "but the situation in this respect is immeasurably better bet-ter now than it was ten months ago. The military position today, however, is as serious as It was then." Bitter Press Controversy. Tho press controversy over the disagreement dis-agreement between Viscount Haldane, former minister of war and Lord High Chancellor, and David Lloyd-George, Lloyd-George, the minister of munitions, grows in bitterness. Fuel was added to the fire today by the statement that If Major General Sir Stanley Von Donop, master general of ordnance, does not resign, Mr. Lloyd-George will retire, and that if Major General Von Donop does resign he will be followed fol-lowed in this action by his chief, Field Marshal Lord Kitchener, the secretary of war. The controversy also has developed de-veloped the' fact that the mysterious cabinet munitions' committee was headed by Lord Kitchener. British Submarine in the Baltic. The official press bureau has finally final-ly released the statement that it was a British submarine which sank a German Ger-man battleship In the Baltic. The belated be-lated confirmation, coming five days after the news of the identity of the attack craft had been published in the continental newspnpors, was almost buried in the English press, portions of which, however, today niake sarcastic sar-castic editorial comments as to the methods of British censorship. |