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Show IMPORTANT, IF TRUE. A popular magazine published in this country has a story' that would appear more appropriate on the first page of a yellow daily newspaper It purports to show that Lord Kitchener has secretly raised for England an army four times as big as has been admitted. In short, the statement is made that the British army numbers four millions of effective fighting men If that is true, we Americans will be the first to know of it. ' Certain it is that the people of Great Britain are in ignorance as to the strength or position of their armies. There is nothing bo very strange about that. If the British secretary of state for war conceived the idea of putting four millions of soldi6rs in the field, it would be a grave strategical blunder on his part to take the public into his confidence Information of that kind could not be made public in England Eng-land without reaching the German staff headquarters.- Indeed, It is highly probable that the Kaiser has-been has-been much better informed as to the fighting strength of England than are the English people themselves. There aie many things that lend credence to the story just published. In the first place, It was almost unbelievable un-believable that the British failed to respond to the call to arms first made by Lord Kitchener. Yet that impression impres-sion was allowed to get out. Indeed, it was openly stated that the British were reluctant to enlist. Butte Post. |