" INDIAN TROOPS CALLED FOR The announcement by Lord Kitchener in the House of Commons late in August that native troops from India were to be summoned to the aid of the British army in France "came like a crash of thunder and revealed a grim determination to fight the struggle out to a successful finish.

[Illustration: Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, England's famous Field Marshal and Secretary of State for War, who lost his life at sea while on a mission to Russia, June 5, 1916.

Bob, our Camp Commandant, swears that a battalion of his regiment, while garrisoning some ocean isle, got mislaid for years and years, and they would have been there to this day, chatting to the crabs and watering the palm-trees with their tears, if some junior subaltern had not sent his birthday-book to KITCHENER with the request that the Field-Marshal would inscribe some verses therein.