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Show ENGLAND BENT ON CRUSMiNGGERMANY LEADERS DECLARE COUNTRY IS PREPARED TO CARRY WAR TO SUCCESSFUL END. Lord Kitchener Says the War Will bo a Long One and He Will Require Re-quire More Men Un.il the Enemy is Crushed. London. Thai. Kngland Is procured pro-cured to carry on the war indefinitely with every confidence in the result was the tenor of the speeches at the annual banquet inaugurating the new Jord mayor of London at Guildhall Monday night, delivered by the men who are responsible for the conduct kjf the war. Notable speeches were made by Prime Minister Asquith, Field Marshal Mar-shal Karl 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, lie said, "has proved itself to be not so contemptible 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 of which had arrived in England, in addition ad-dition to the million and a quarter men now training in this country, i |