THE FAILURE, AT SUVLA.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 August 1916, Page 7

THE FAILURE, AT SUVLA.

"SOMEONE HAD BLUNDERED,* BUT NOT THE NAVY. In the February number of Blackwood's Magazine there appeared an article on the miscarriage of the military operations at the Buvla Bay landing. The writer commented. on the breakdown of the water supply for the newly - landed mishap which evidently had much to do with the failure of those troops to accomplish the task set them. Ho wrote as follows:—"Someone had blundered. The naval transport staff undertook the safe arrival at Suvla Bay by 7 o'clock on the morning of the landing of all the transports, containing water, stores, mules and carts. When it was found that those ships had not turned up, the telegraph discovered most of them still lying at Mudros, sixty miles or more away." Admiral de Robeck, according to a note in the June issue.oE the magazine, has asked the editor to make known in the interests of the naval officers concerned that the Navy was not responsible for the breakdown of the water supply, and that the transport programme was carried out "punctually and precisely." A: the editor observes, the matter will doubtless, torm the subject of investigation, and the blame be put upon the right shoulders. In the meantime it is.-sstisfactory to learn from the admiral commanding that the untoward incident was not due to any inefficiency on the part of the Navy. Confidence in the \avy has been the one great consolation of the British people through all the yici.jitudei; of the war