Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 41, 18 October 1915, Page 7

Great Britain

NEWSPAPER COMMENT.

United Press Association.

Loudon ,October lo

The Manchester Guardian, commeutiug on Sir Edward Grey’s statement, says;—“The Government should have known years ago that Turkey might be a dangerous enemy. All that time w© were deliberately keeping up tho prestige of the Ottoman Empire , which was unfair to llussia and of advantage to Germany at the expense of British naval power. Doesn’t it show a strange lack of cor-ordination in our national policy and strategy ? itegardiug Bulgaria, the best of all answers to King Ferdinand would surely have been to concentrate au overwhelming force at the Dardanelles, but this has been a costly and, we fear we must add, an unsuccessful experiment.” Evening newspapers are commenting freely on the situation at the Dardanelles.

The Westminster Gazette considers that tho Government should not be pressed respecting tho situation. If the House of Commons refrains from pursuing a line of inquiry it will show itself more prudent than the House of Lords. Tho Westminster Gazette suggests equipping a now expedition for Salonika, but it must not be allowed to dissipate or weaken the forces in the West, which is the decisive theatre of the war.

Tho Evening News draws attention to the discrepancy between Mr Churchill's and Lord Cecil’s optimistic statements about the Dardanelles and tho illusions of the House of Lords.