THE HIGH COMMAND
POLITICAL INTERFERENCE
DENIED
(Received January 26, 2.30 p.m.)
MONTREAL, 25th January.
Sir Frederick Smith, in a speech at the Canadian Club, said, that Colonel Eepington's allegations in the London Times to the effect that the members of •the War Cabinet interfered with Sir Douglas Haig's plans were unfounded. Sir Douglas Haig and other generals were given greater freedom for the conduct of tho campaign than ever before in history. The Cabinet had the fullest confidence in Sir Douglas Haig and his associates. (AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CAHLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received January 26, 2.30 p.m.) . , LONDON, 25th January. In the House of Commons, Mr. Bonar | Law stated, that Sir William Robertson I and Sir Douglas Haig possessed the full confidence- of the Government. He deprecated in the strongest, manner discussions in the press on questions of strategy and the qualifications of individual officers.
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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 23, 26 January 1918, Page 6
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