ATTACK ON GALLIPOLI

Hokitika Guardian, 1 June 1920, Page 3

ATTACK ON GALLIPOLI

GENERAL MAXWELL’S OPINION

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United Service Telegrams)

(Received this day at 12.2o 4 p.m) LONDON, May 31. General ylr John Maxwell writing in the “Standard” regarding Gallipoli,

says: - j “The late Lord Kitchener ordered mo to give General Hamilton all the men he asked for. I did so, time and again. I sent the best troops and denuded Egypt to cope with the demands Thereby I took great risks, knowing tlie danger of an attack on the Suez Canal, which was finally left with one complete' formation of yeomanry. Hamilton got the pick of .the Australians., •When he, states that I refused to send a brigade of Ghurkas, I merely renly that there was no such brigade. As regards Hamilton’s statement that the

administrative staff had not reached

Mudros at the. time planned for the he characterised it as an araaz. ir.g admission. The work of dealing with the sick, wounded, water supplies and ammunition was the concern of the administration staff. The general staff was concerned with fighters only.” General-Maxwell adds/ “Gallipoli failed in the great part owing to the impasse over the sick, and wounded, and lack of water.”