A CENSOR FOR THE LORDS
LORD DERBY SPEAKS OUT
By Telegraph—Press Association—Ooryrijhl London, November 24. Lord Derby, head of the recruiting movement, addressing the Stock Exchange, said ho disliked to think that the House of Lords needed a censor, but two speeches delivered there ought to have been censored. He could civo the lie direct to Lord St. Davids's accusations and Bum up ttie speech in a few words: "No gentleman would have said it, and no gontleman will believe it." • Referring to Lord Ribblesdale's speech Lord Derby said:."A man who gives information to the enemy goes by an ugly liame; that name should be given just as much to a speech delivered in the House of Lords as to a man risking his life to get information for the enemy. We have the right to ask Lord Ribblesdale where ho got the information which he said was common knowledge. I was at the War Office and did not know it, and I do not think you will find people who do."
In the House of Lords a week ago, Lord R.ibblesdale asked the Government whether it was in a position to report on tho effect and progress of our'military operations in the Near East. "It is common knowledge," he said, "that Sir Charles Monro has reported in' favour of our withdrawing from the Dardanelles; that ho is averse to a continuance of winter operations. I would like to know from the Government whether Lord Kitchener has gone to act, or withdraw the men." He hoped, in the case of the Dardanelles, that we would be successful in withdrawing our troops —if military opinions favoured their withdrawal, and we were not over-anx-ious about our prestige in Europe. 'We might yet seo -a peace arrived at whioh would not he imposed by anybody, but which would be approved by everybody. It. was best not.to talk of terms of peace.
Lord St. Davids, in his speech, violently attacked the British Headquarters Staff in France, accusing it of general incompetence and laziness. He' asserted that there were a number of young men on tho Staff who ought to be in the trenches. It was a scandalous thing that many owed their positions to patronage, and were tlirrist upon Sir John French. Victory over and over again had been stopped by bad Staff work. Tho gallantry of the soldiers and regimental officers had been unsurpassed, but their efforts had. been thrown away owing to the muddling in high places. , A PERSONAL EXPLANATION BY LORD ST. DAVIDS. , (Reo, November 25, 5.5 p.m.) London, November 24. . Speaking in the House of Lords, Lord St. Davids, in a personal explanation, said that the ladies he had referred to in his recent speech, as visitors to headquarters, wero above reproach, but ho did not consider it deceit to regard war as a sort of peep-show. He deprecated people reading, intc his speech-what lie did not mean to. convey. . Lord Crewe said he was glad to hoar 'Jiord Si David's qualified speech. The noble lord had only himself to blame if harsh things had been said of it. ,
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2629, 26 November 1915, Page 5
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519A CENSOR FOR THE LORDS Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2629, 26 November 1915, Page 5
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