NEWSPAPER COMMENT
(Dec. Juno ■}, 9.30 p.m.) London, June ,1. Apart from tlio anti-Kitchener Northelifl'o Press, tlio nowspapors generally consider that Mr. jtsquith ha* dissipated Lord French's accusations. They especially draw attention to Lord' 'French's |'eulogy of "-Air. -Asquith three days after j the Liberal Government's fall, whereas Lord French now states Unit lie ongi- ' lieeml the fall in order to save the country from ruin.
The "Westminster Gazette'' recalls Lord French's eulogy of Lord Kitchener in the Ilonse of Lords on June 20, 1916. "Yet," says tho ''Gazette," "persecution lias again lifted its ugly head." The "Gazette" asks whether Lord French did not intend to retire on his base and leave the French Army in the lurch; whether the French Government did not earnestly, and whether Cabinet did not thereupon depute Lord Kitehoner personally to convey to Lord French their decision that he should nut rotiro us he proposed.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 215, 5 June 1919, Page 5
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