EARLY DAYS OF THE WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 May 1919, Page 5

EARLY DAYS OF THE WAR.

FIELD-MARSHAL FRENCH'S * NARRATIVE. LLOYD GEORGE EULOGISED. London, May 12 Lord French continues his narrative in tlie Daily Telegraph. -: He impressed on the War Office on October 26, 1914, our terrible defietaujy,.. in heavy artillery. 'Official rorreiMßW; 7. ence on the subject continued until 1015, when Mr. Lloyd George cam* tt.fi the rescue and entered on hit career ot ■*■ patriotic salvation. Britons all over tie world will ever remember this distm- . guished statesman with the utmost gratitude as one of the greatest of the Empire's sons. An awful responsibility . rested with him, and he worked in the face of a dead weight of senseless, but - powerful opposition. Lord French says lie cannot adequately express his sense of the valuable help received throughout from Mr. Ctrarcbfll, who assisted in sketching plana, for an. offensive with one flank towards the sea. Although the subsequent fall of Antwerp effected a drastic change In tin conditions, the plans were substantially the same as took shape early in 1915, Arising from Lord French's articles - and his criticism of his subordinates,** question was asked n the House of Commons as to whether the Government ill, -• prepared to permit officers holding com-" mands to reply. Mr Bonar Law answered ■ in the negative. ' Mr. Churchill later stated that the. Army Council -was in no way .' for Lord French's articles. The Army Act distinguished between serving Midlers and those in Lord French'»poß3Sfln, —Aus ,-N.Z. Cable Aun.