PROTECTION AND PROMOTION.

Taihape Daily Times, 16 April 1918, Page 3

PROTECTION AND PROMOTION.

The two cabled items that promotion is in future to be by merit in the British army and that an inquiry is to be held into the Fifth Army’s recent retreat at St. Quentin are corelated. The cableman apparently has been censored out of reporting the caustic criticism of past months in the London and provincial papers of England regarding close corporation in commissions that has been held by the military caste. Some of the papers even went so far as to include Sir Douglas Haig in their animadversions, demanding his removal. It was also remarked that even as we out here kicked against General Godley, so the Australians at the front freely criticised General Gough, commander of the Fifth Army—and the ordered enquiry jusfifjds £hc •Cornstalks’ objections. Not that he was their commander, but apparently the colonials were expressing their contempt for the swank and privilege which he typified in the army It has taken over three years for the War Office to ’recognise njefit tas against, class privileges—the curse of Germany.