17 JULY 1915, Page 3

At the Guildhall on Friday week Lord Kitchener appealed for

more recruits, and his speech was additionally important because it explained the application of the National Register to the military situation. Varying Napoleon's phrase, "Money, money, money," Lord Kitchener said that the three essentials to victory were "men, material, and money." As for the men, there had been a "satisfactory and constant flow" of recruits from the beginning of the war till lately. The recent falling off in numbers had been due, he believed, to temporary causes. He had been unwilling to ask men to enlist for whom there was as yet no equipment, but there was no longer an excess of men over equipment. He therefore made a fresh and urgent appeal to the manhood of the nation.