LIGHT ON THE WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 October 1919, Page 4

LIGHT ON THE WAR.

LORD FISHER'S MEMOIRS. , SCHEME TO INVADE GERMANY. ) THE GALLIPOLI FAILURE. ] By Telegraph.—Press Aun.-~Copyright f Received Oct. 15, 7.20 p.m. - ; London, Oct. 14. Lord Fisher's memoirs, published in the Times, tell a piqquarit story of the war. A gigantic conception of an invasion of Germany through the Baltic with three armies, including a Russian, following an immense fleet, dominated him While at the Admiralty, and he still insists thi3 would have ended the war in 1915. At the War Councils he was the only naval representative opposed to the Dardanelles operations, but he adds: "I backed Churchill because he had courage and imagination." Lord Fisher eventually resigned because he could not stand the lying by which the Dardanelles operations were kept going. He scoffs at the official spokesmen who ludicrously asserted that the Turks were coming to their last round of ammunition. He admits that there was frequent tension in those days between him and Lord Kitchener. He delivered an ultimatum one day to Kitchener that if the Queen Elizabeth was not withdrawn from the Dardanelles he would leave the Admiralty. Next day, luckily, she did leave, for a submarine, which had been prowling round for a fortnight looking for her, that night blew tip her Wooden dummy, thinking it had got her. He hints that at one time there was a big scheme to polish off every soul on Heligoland and the surrounding fleet by a deadly poison gas. He describes Kitchener as a great man, but also a great deception, inasmuch as he could not be what people thought, like Moses. He was a great commissariat officer, but he was no Napoleon or? Moltke.—Reuter.