THE MESOPOTAMIA SCANDAL
WHO ORDERED THE MARCH ON BAGDAD? SEVERE CRITICISM / (United Services.) (liec. July 24, 8.10 p.m.) London, July 21. Mr. Lovat Fraser, in the "Daily Mail,'' says: "All the trouble in Mesopotamia arose from the order to advance on Bagdad, Riid the responsibility for the order is one of the greatest mysteries of modern times. The campaign is the worst instanco of military maladministration wo have had for a century," . Mr.- Eraser confines the responsibility to" Sir James Nixon (t.lie Commander-in-Chief in Mesopotamia), Viscount Hardingo (the then Viceroy , of India), General Sir Beauchamp Dull (Commander-in-Chief in India), ana the Cabinet,
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2832, 25 July 1916, Page 5
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