THE GALLIPOLI CAMPAIGN.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 April 1920, Page 1

THE GALLIPOLI CAMPAIGN.

LONDON, April tM. Speaking at an Army dinner at Sheffield, Sir lan Hamilton read cabled greetings from General Sir AVilham Birdwood on behalf of Anzac comrades. Sir lan Hamilton declared that niter the successful landing at the Dardanelles, their forces could on several occasions have advanced and captured Constantinople, knocked out the Turks and joined hands with the .Russians and immobilised the Bulgarians; hut the higher directors of the Entente could not make up their minds. There were periods when, without endangering the safety of Calais or Paris the forces at the Dardanelles might have borrowed I lor a feiv days a small number of how- j ilzors, trench mortars arid areoplanes, j which would have ensured absolute. 'Success. The British, he said, never made use or their amphibious powers to carry out strategical movements on a grand scale. Undoubtedly mistakes were made, both on the spot and at, Home. ' hut the idea, of forcing the Dardanelles was essentially sound and must have ! triumphed if the reins of the British ■ direction had been, held in London, in- > stond of in Paris and on the AVestern " Front.