LIFE OF KITCHENER’
SHELL CONTROVERSY REVIVED, Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N. 21. Cable Association. LONDON, April 15. To-day’.s instalment of Sir George Arthur's ‘ Life of Kitchener ’ deals with the shell controversy in 1915. The author quotes General French's letter of April 8, 1915. arranging a secret meeting with Lord Kitchener on April 14. when, in consequence of a long conversation, Lord Kitchener was able to assure Mr Asquith that General French would have sufficient ammunition for the next forward movement, whereupon Air Asquith based’his Newcastle speech. A new letter from French on May 2 is published, in which* he stated: “The ammunition will be all right.” General French became despondent on May 9 owing to the failure of the joint attack on the La Bassee-Arras front, and wrote declining to accept responsibilitv for drawing on his stocks of ammunition in order to supply the Dardanelles reouireraents. Lord Kitchener replied that the stocks would be replaced, and this was done within 24 hours. Field-marshal French sought further relief for his feelings hv confiding his necessities to a repre-' sentativo of ‘The Times’; but, apart from French’s own suggestion, it is not easy to trace the change of Government to the shortage of high explosives and the momentary displacement on May 10 of some reserve ammunition.
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Evening Star, Issue 17329, 17 April 1920, Page 6
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