need or room for them.

When England sent her first expeditionary force of 100,000 men to the
Continent there was no public report of how steadily it was augmented.
The official announcement was simply that the line should not be
diminished and that all losses should be made good.

An American acquaintance of mine, whom I found in France fighting in
the uniform of the English, had made the declaration from his quick
perception of the situation at the outset that if before January 1 the
English should have sent over only another 100,000 men, they would have
only 100,000 left there at the end of the year.

I found his estimate of losses correct. The English casualties at the
end of 1914 were over 100,000,--killed, wounded, prisoners, and
missing,--or fully the number of the first Expeditionary Force.

Yet every week and every month the forces of the English grew larger
and never smaller. The filling in of the gaps and the augmentation of
the English forces and their maintenance, munitions, and supplies was
but the smaller part of the work of the War Office.

The great problem was to compass the situation as a worldwide war and
summon and put into an effective fighting machine the resources of the
Empire.

"Not alone the men but the machinery," said Kitchener, "must win this
war."

England had to put into operation machinery, financial and diplomatic,