The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, AUGUST 31, 1903. A SENSATIONAL REPORT.
.The report of the Elgin Commission has been rightly described as a sensational document. That there was gross inefficiency somewhere waa very palpable during the recent war, hut most Britishers found .various excuses for the deplorable state of unpreparedness, and the consequent blundering. It was set down to British over-reliance, and numerous other causes, while the real fact was that red-tape is in an.d culpable carelessness were in the main responsible.—the result being that thou sands of lives were needlessly sacrificed, and Britain had a lesson ‘so sharp that it will not soon be forgotten. The British War Office, instead of being the vigilant conserver of the nation’s safety, has been allowed jo become the resort of men who like to draw good pay without doing anything in return therefor. ■The Commission does not undertake to say where the blame lies, and no doubt the jjiain concern is as to the future. In times of peace, the Bri. tisli public are lenient, apd therefore it will be safe to assume that some who should he severely punished will escape altogether.
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 982, 31 August 1903, Page 2
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