DARDANELLES REPORT

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 December 1929, Page 7

DARDANELLES REPORT

PUBLICATION DEMANDED SIR I. HAMILTON’S REPLY (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Recd. December 7, 11 a.m.) LONDON, December 6. “The public has the remedy in its own hands,” declared Sir lan Hamilton to a “Daily News” representative, when referring to Mr Lloyd George s remarks in the House of Commons on Gallipoli. “It ought to insist on the publication of the Dardanelles Commission’s report. I agree there was no co-ordina-tion at Whitehall during the Dardanelles expedition. The departments of state were in steel-clad compartments. There will be no change until a Department of Defence is created to coordinate action. “The Commission’s report contains opinions of witnesses on oath, with the memory of events fresh in their minds. Some military reputations might not be quite so shining afterwards. What does that matter. There can be no harm from the strategical military viewpoint.” Speaking to the “Evening News” representative, Sir I. Hamilton said: “Often during the past ten years, I commented on the absurdity of continuing for the sake of two or three political reputations, to keep dark that mine of interest, namely the Dardanelles report. The public has been flapdoodled into imagining that the actual report "was published by the Royal Commission, and that a few extracts from the remark of witnesses contained something approaching a precis of the whole matter. ' It was. nothing of the sort. Do you know what flapdoodle really is? It is food they use to feed fools.”