CANADIAN COMMANDER IN FRANCE
' « — ALLEGATIONS BY SIR SAM HUGHES. (Rec. Juno 19, 0.15 a.m.) Ottawa, June 17. In the House of Commons General Sir Sam Hughes, former Minister of Defence, declared- that a British general kicked.General Sir Arthur Currie, commanding the Canadian Division in France, out of a dug-out near Ypres.! General Hughes said that if he had remained Minister a few weeks longer tho resignation of General Currie would have been demanded. Brigadier-General William Griesbach, commanding tho .Forty-ninth Canadian Battalion during the war, defended General Carrie's conduct t while commander of tho Canadian Division—Aiis.N.Z. Cable Assn.'
r Gerieral Currie has succeeded to the post of head of M'Gill University, Can. Ada, vacated by Sir Auckland Geddes on his recent appointment as- Ambassador tr, tho United States. Sir Sam.-Hughes mis dismissed as Canadian ■ Defence Minister in November, l!)l(i. He was in .France ■in the early stages of the war and won golden opinions later in organising the Canadian expeditionary forces, but was nhargpd with laxity in handling money for munitions.]
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 227, 19 June 1920, Page 7
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