WAR NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 November 1917, Page 3

WAR NOTES.

RIGA OR GALLIPOLI T That veteran journalist, Sir Henry Lucy, in one of his weekly letters from London to the Sydney Morning Herald, tells a curious story, now made public, we believe, for the first time, which suggests that as far back as the first six months of the war, a concerted and united war policy mjght have been of advantage to the Allies. Sir Henry declares that if Lord Fisher, when First Sea Lord, had had his way, Riga would have figured in newspapers as prominently as it did recently, but in a manner less agreeable to the Kaiser. His scheme was to land a British force at Riga, which, strengthened by Russians, should enter Prussia and march on Berlin. "At the same date. Winston Churchill conceived the project of forcing the Dardanelles, assisted by the landing of troops at Gallipoli. Th* found favor in the eyes of the Cabinet, to the setting aside of the Paltie scheme, and, ineidentially, leading to the resignation of Admiral Fisher. How far it would have prospered is conjectural. What is certain is that it could' scarcely have, been more disastrous to British troops and P>ritish prestige than was the Gallipoli adventure."