"MONSTROUS SLANDER"
APPOINTMENT OF OFFICERS. Alleged favouritism in the appointment of officers of the Expeditionary Force was made the basis of an attack on the Government by Mr. A. H. Atmore in the debate on the Appropriation Bill in the House of Representatives yesterday morning. In reply, the Hon. J. l Allen, Minister of Defence, rebutted most of the specific charges,'and answered the general accusation by quoting the following extract from a report on the subject furnished to him by General Go'dley:— "I think it is very desirable that the irresponsible critics and others who make misohief as regards the appointments of officers should be given clearly to understand that the Expeditionary Force is going to the seat of war to be engaged in what is probably the most arduous campaign of modem times, and that it would therefore be nothing less than criminal to take any officer simply because he lias been a .Territorial or volunteer officer. It is nothing else than the most monstrous slander that it should be insinuated that the appointments of officers for this purpose should bo recommended by me, and by the officers _ responsible • to me, from civilians with influence, rather than from Territorial officers with nothing but their service to rcconlmend them. •
"I have personally selected, as far as it is humanly possible for me to do so, every officer who goes with the Forco, and in practically every case I have gone carefully into their records and qualifications. Practically every Territorial officer who has volunteered, whoso qualifications were sufficiently good to justify me in recommending him for a commission in the Expeditionary Force, has been given one, and many of those who were not at first able to volunteer have volunteered since, and will be taken with the reinforcements. In some cases which I have investigated I have found that officers who have complained of not having been selected did not volunteer, or volunteered too late."
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2300, 6 November 1914, Page 6
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324"MONSTROUS SLANDER" Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2300, 6 November 1914, Page 6
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