GALLIPOLI

Taranaki Daily News, 26 November 1919, Page 5

GALLIPOLI

"A GREAT ADVENTURE." BADLY STUDIED CAMPAIGN. By TeleEtapa.—P/ess Assn.—Copyrlfiht. London, Nov. 21. Colonel Repington, writing in the Morning Post, says that it was obvious that the seizure of the Dardanelles <vas an object of first-class importance, but it was also obvious that the enemy would defend it to the last. We should have carefully studied the operations, which we did not do. We knocked hard at the Turkish door to warn them of our coming. Wo sent Sir lan Hamilton after an hour's vague talk with Lord Kitchener. Sir lan Hamilton must often have made longer or better preparations for a week's covert shooting than he was enabled to make for the Dardanelles. To attempt such a great adventure while we wow outmatched in France was an act ut supreme folly. It was really a rank injustice to attribute the failure at the Dardanelles to the individual faults of officers, when the original fault was perpetuated ,in London. The new divisions sent to Suvla were considered magnificent material, but were totally lacking in war experience, and commanded by generals who, with one or two exceptions, had passed their prime. The commission had done its work fearlessly and honestly, according to its lights, and could not claim professional authority to adjudicate upon battles.