General fan Hamilton.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 October 1922, Page 3

General fan Hamilton.

A PHILOSOPHER'S I’ixnl NO

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAIILB ASSOCIATION

■ Received this dav at 11.3(1 a.m.) LONDON. Oct, 23. General lan Hamilton addressing

tion, said it is not as a, politician, nut uiilv ;is a philosopher that 1 draw attention to the fact that Mr 1.10y.l (P.-orgo „„<! laird XorUiehfl'o were. aocoriliii'- to a published .speech by laird Northditle. specially responsible tor the evacuation of the Dardanelles, while now .Mr l.loyd George- njrlttlv or wrongly is all for holding on. Supposing ho is right, "hat a m.sfoilane for us and for himself, that he did not let us hold on in 1910, and finish the Turks. Von heard of the western front hill and German theory of the way to end the war. rnfortunntely as practised, we usually killed more liritish than Germans at Passehemleale According to General ImdondorfT who is ecnsidered truthful even by 1‘ reneh historians, two liritish to one German were killed. Quite lately wo have h.-en vouchsafed a glimpse into the heart of the attrition theory as practised at, Dardanelles. General l.imnii von Saunders says while Gallipoli holds t wen tv thousand Hriti-h graves, it also holds sixty-two thousand I’uikju], so there wo have, beyond denial, what Ati/.ncs often said, namely, that three Turks died for every Briton. We otilv 'md to go o

surest I,ut one ending. Instead, . u or>t. 1!)lo, two divisions and ninny I'olnitions wore withdrawn from the Peninsula while the troans left were forl.idflen to attack or und-rtake ami operations. Thus presumably, it was hoped the country would net sick ..i...11,r 1 1 of what is called now the sac-

,, ml rrrotiml, and permit that «'HI «mil no (’rod piooo of folly—tlio ovnonnluni.