CHARGE REVIVED

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 84, 10 April 1931, Page 7

CHARGE REVIVED

OFFICERS AND ALCOHOL

Brigadier-General F. P. Croziefj •whose recent war book, "A. Brass-Hali in No Man's Land," caused acute coitf troversy, revived a hotly contested charge in his "Impressions and Eecol) lections." In a chapter on the war he says:— "Many colonels, various majors, cap« tains, and subalterns, in my own small knowledge, rendered themselves useless for war at various times in France, owing to their taking too much strong drink or doing themselves too well."

General Crozier writes that when lie was commanding auxiliaries in Ireland in 1920-21 a police official, Lieut.-Col-onel Andrews, told him that "he (Andrews) had been ordered to take part in an ambush, dressed up as a 'Shinner,' for the purpose of way-laying Sir Maurice and Lady Bonham-Carter and stealing their papers, as they were supposed to be 'spying' for Lady; Bonham-Carter's father, Mr. Asquith. I caused Sir Maurice and his wife to be warned."

Sir Maurice Bonham-Carter told a "Daily Mail" reporter: "It is quito true that we were warned, as General Crozier states. I don't know from whom the warning came, but I know it came from Dublin."