GALLIPOLI REPORT.

The wretched cable service that New Zealand has unfortunately to accept, sent out thousands of words concerning the Galli] .li Commission. Most of the report was "piffle,' ' and if the Press Association had had the least idea of what is news and what is not, it would have cut down the report to about fifty words. Nobody takes the Commission'« report seriously, and nobody expects to find much truth in it. Even the London Times is of opinion that the Commission 's report did not tell all the truth. We stated when it was first reported that a Commission was to be appointed to deal with the Gallipoli blunder that the whole business would be glossed over and the real truth never officially made public. Sir Thomas Mackenzie seems determined to have a further enquiry into certain points. Unfortunately Sir Thomas is a nonentity. He carries little weight generally, and even as our Commissioner at Home he does not "cut much ice." However, he may be able to create sufficient noise to compel the Government at Home to clear up the points he, desires to see settled. The Mackenzie minority report states decisively that some of the evidence was given in an over-reticent manner —in other words, the real truth whs being hidden, The lamentable ignorance of the, military authorities at Home is well known throughout the world, and when this class of individual associates itself with the unscrupulous politicians in the Old Country, then it is no wonder that, we had perpetrated at Gallipoli one of the greatest —if not the greatest—military blunders ever recorded in the world. It will take much more than the whitewashing of a Commission to persuade the .on;val public that the Gallipoli Conuni .ion was not set up chiefly for the purpose of protecting the military "tin hats" and society pets who brought disaster to the flower of the British, Australian and Now Zealand troops by sending them on such a criminally ill-prepared expedition as that connected with the Gallipoli peninsula.