GALLIPOLI BUNGLE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 840, 7 December 1929, Page 11

GALLIPOLI BUNGLE

PUBLIC SHOULD DEMAND REPORT REPUTATIONS IN DANGER United P.A.—By Telegraph Copyright Reed. 9.5. a.m. LONDON, Friday. “The public has the remedy in its own hands,” declared Sir lan Hamilton to a "Daily News” representative, when referring to Mr. Lloyd George's remarks on the failure at Gallipoli. “It ought to Insist on publication of the Dardanelles Commission’s report. “I agree that there was no coordination at Whitehall during j tlje Dardanelles expedition. The; Departments of State were in steel- j clad compartments. There will be: no change until a Department of j Defence is created to co-ordinate action “The Commission's report contains the opinion of witnesses on oath, with

the memory of * the events fresh 1] in their minds. 1 If the report were ' published. some military repu- j tations might not | be quite so shining afterwards, j What does that j matter? There j cau be no harm I from a strategical 1 or military vievpoint.”

point. Speaking to an “Evening News” representative, Sir lan Hamilton said: “Often during the past ten years I have commented on the absurdity of continuiug, for the sake of two or three political reputations, to keep dark that mine of interest, namely the Dardanelles report. The public has been flapdoodled into imagining that the actual report published by the Royal Commission, with a few extracts from the remarks of the witnesses, contained something approaching a precis of the whole matter. It did nothing of the sort. Do you know what flapdoodle really is? It is the food used to feed fools.”