CHURCHILL'S ERROR

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 130, 29 November 1932, Page 7

CHURCHILL'S ERROR

DARDANELLES TACTICS

THE NAVAL. ATTACK

LONDON, 11th November

In Mr. Winston Churchill'a latest book, ".Thoughts and Adventures," he states that when Earl Kitchener went back'on his undertaking to send the Twenty-ninth Division to reinforce the' Dardanelles Expedition it delayed .the sending of reinforcements by three weeks. "I should,have been prudent and broken off the naval attack," he writes. "I did not do this, and from that moment became accountable for the operation, the'vital control of which passed to other hands." ;

Mr. Churchill also admits that he ought never to have gone to Antwerp, but should have remained in London to try to force the Cabinet aud Lord Kitchener to take more effective action.

Referring to the battle of Sidney Street in^ 1910, Mr. Churchill again admits that he would have doae much better if ho had remained quietly in his office. He adds:—"l have no desire ta live my life over'again, happy, vivid, and full of interest as it has been. Ido not seek to tread again that toilsome and dangerous path."

When Mr. Churchill was Home Secretary in 1910, ho called out detachments of infantry and artillery to deal with two desperadoes,, one of whom was named "Peter the Painter," who nad barricaded themsalves in a house in Sidney street in the East End of London, from which they sniped at the police. Mr. Churchill personally directed the operations. When he was First Lord of the Admiralty ~Mr. Churchill visited Antwerp in October, 1914, while it was besieged by German troops, to concert measures for delaying the withdrawal of the Belgian Field Army. - the manner of transfer but in finding the money with a Budget deficit already heavy.

CONTENTS OF NOTE

COGENT PRESENTATION

REASONS FOR SUSPENSION

(British Official Wireless.)

(Received 29th November, noon.)

RUGBY, 28th November. Further consultations between the Ministers and financial experts concerning the draft of the second British War Debts Note took place to-day. The Governor of the Bank of England, Mr. 'Montagu Norman', visited the Chancellor of the Exchequer this morning and several Ministers, discussed the matter further at a meeting in the House of Commons to-night. It is anticipated that the Note will, be dispatched to Washington within the next few days and it is expected to contain a cogent presentation of the reasons which led Britain to propose an extension, of the moratorium pending an exchange of views on the whole question of international war indebtedness.

STERLING AT A LOW EBB

(British Official Wireless.)

(Received 29th November, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, 28th November. After touching a new low record at 3.17 i dollars to £1, the sterling rate on New York recovered to 3.18 7-32 to-day. Business on the London Stock Exchange was at a low ebb pending definite news of the war debt situation. British funds closed above 'the worst with War Loan assented at £95 ISs 9d. By special arrangement Router's world service, in addition to other special sources of information. Is used In the compilation of tha oTerseaa intelligence published in this issue, and all rights therein in. Australia and New Zealand are reserred.