LONDON PRESS COMMENT

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 28 March 1918, Page 5

LONDON PRESS COMMENT

GENERAL ROBERTSON'S RECALL DEMANDED.

(Received March 28, 10.10 a.m ) LONDON, March 27. Newspapers urge the necessity for viewing tfcmgs steadily and seeing them as a whole, but insist that the public must be ready to make any sacrifices necessary. TT The Morning Post demands that Sir William Robertson shall b e recalled to the War Office to help reorganise the battered divisions. The War Cabinet, the paper says, must sink questions of amour • propre. J .i.Tlle-J :>aily Chronicle says, editorially, that n legislation is necessary Parliament ought to reassemble. The raising of the military age to forty-five seems to be foreshadowed.

Man power, the Chronicle adds, lies at the bottom of the present situation, and the two nronhets who have been proved to be right are Sir W Robertson and Sir Auckland Geddes—the latter for his clear Dresentation of the new position due to the Russians' collapse, and Sir W. Robertson for his constant insistence on the decisive character of the fighting on the western front.