LOBS OF GALLIPOLI.
lAN HAMILTON’S VIEW. LONDON, March 12. “The chief handicap from which the English suffer in the race of life their tendency to crab themselves. That is why we lost Gallipoli,’’ said General Sir lan Hamilton, speaking at Edmonton. . . , „ “The Turks did not drive us out, hi continued. “The troops did not dream of a Turkish victory, but the press and the War Office combined to keep an agent out there who made it his business to tell everyone authoritatively that the game was up and that all was doomed to destruction.” “The commander vainly cabled and wrote, explaining the evil thus wrought and begging that* the agent he" withdrawn hut the people at home, being English, enjoyed that sort of self-de-preciation.” “It lost ns Gallipoli., Some day if we do not take care, it may lose the Empire for us.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 139, 25 March 1930, Page 5
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