FLOODGATES OF CRITICISM
AN APPEAL TO MR. ASQUITH London, April 30. "The Times," in a leader, says:—"lt is hardly surprising that the sudden costly clash of arms in Flanders, coinciding with the first news of combined operations in the Dardanelles, should have opened the floodgates of criticism of the whole conduct of the war.' There is" a conviction that the first attempt on the Dardanelles was undertaken by tho Admiralty without adequate preparation, that it was grossly and mischievously over-advertised, and that it culminated in a very considerable disaster on March 18. Wo sincerely hone that in the present state of' publicuneasiness Mr. Asquith will niako it his own business to tell the nation frankly that he has laid his plans and counted all tlie cost. The only real solution of all our doubts i? a Prime Minister who will assert himself and make, the nation feel that someone's hand is on' the hi>lm,"~-"Timea" and Sydney- "Sun" Services • .
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2451, 3 May 1915, Page 6
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158FLOODGATES OF CRITICISM Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2451, 3 May 1915, Page 6
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