WAR SECRET.
COLD' -M:3NASII HAVE REPLACED HAIG. FRIEND REMAINS 31 GTE LONDON Oct. 29. T won’t divulge a word of. anythin'* that was told me in confidence said°Miss. Lizotte Rentwicli, a friend of Sir John Monash, when, questioned by tho ‘Daily l Sketch ’ .regarding v* suggestion that he might have replaced Earl Haig as British Command cr-in-Chiof. , ’ w , Asked whether Sir John had S e tt, unfairly treated ami whether he had ever referred l bitterly end ironically to tho manner in .which, his qualifications for this ; supreme command had been overlooked, MRs Bentwiten timiln declined to Freak any confidence she possessed. • ,‘Xt is a most wonderful thing, 1 ’ she said Tor Mr Lloyd George t° make the accusation, giving million's tho belief, that between . two and three, million-, of I ', their ipcnfQfck w.cro slaughtered... unnecessarily. What must poor Lady IT nig 'fool, Sir John Monnsli would himself have :» 'given, lift? opinion to -the wqiild ho-1? • he wanted it known.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXI, Issue 12398, 10 November 1934, Page 5
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