RECORDS OF BRITISH ARMIES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 69, 16 December 1918, Page 4

RECORDS OF BRITISH ARMIES

PLEA FOR. PUBLICATION. "I hope very much that the names <>f all our. commanders and the general composition of each division may be published," writes Colonel Repiiigton in the "Morning Post," "and that the actions in which each division lias successfully participated may be added. There v,as good reason, while our new armies Were forming, for this information to be withheld, but I can see no reason for this'course now. We know the ultima w history of every German division, and even 'of every company in each German battalion. The enemy knows as much about ours. General Pershing publishes the names of his divisions who have fought, and of their commanders, and there seems to me every advantage in allowing East Anglia, or Northumberland, or the Highlands, to read the proud records of their troops and to follow them in nil the battles. "Divisions pass from army corps; to armv corps, and no strategical secret is given away bv the course, which,l have ndvoeatcd.'These tliinsp are only secrets from the British public, who are tho people most interested, and it is really timo that wo shouldMnake an end of useless and harmful sccretiveness and. copy the frankness of our American cousins. The deeds of our armies are not understood because wo heln no one to understand them. I hope Hiat- Lord Milner may concern himself "with this matter, for I believe that it is a most, serious political and military interest thatjthe groat sliaro taken in these tremendous events by our Homo and Dominion troops should ho known to all the world.' ;