THE DARDANELLES

Marlborough Express, Volume LIII, Issue 277, 25 November 1919, Page 5

THE DARDANELLES

CJOLONmi REMINGTON'S COM-

MENT,

"ACST OF SUPREMOS FOLLY."

[Pbkss Association.]

& ur Mi.n ami N.Z Cable Association (Rieeeived Nw. '24, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 38, . Colonel Repington, writing in the ; Mwiiing Post, says: "It is obvious tk'it the soiEure of the Dardanelles ivas an object of first class importaaiee, but- it was also obvious that the ene.-ny would defend it to the last. We should have carefully! studied the vvMoh we did •not do. We knocked ihard at the! Turkish dffor i o war-i them of our ' coming. We sent out Sir lan Hamil-, ton, after an hoar's v-sgu© talk withj Lord Kitchener. Sir Im. Hamilton | nuifefc often have made a longer -etc j better preparation for a week s ] oovert footing than iicf >w«as enabled > to make for the taking the Diar-daiK-dles. . ■ ;

"To such a great adven- : tmre while we were outmatched in Fraraee -was an act of supreme folly. It was really rank injustice to ;at-, tribtite the, failure at the Da-r-' dandles to "the individual faults *of; the -officers, when !the -original 'fault; was .perpetrated iin London. The: new divisions sent to Suvla were con- ■ sidefcerl -to toe •magnificent material,; butj were totally lacking in war ex-1 ■perience. ;and were commanded /byi generals who, with one ■©i^itwq^ex-, cerjiipns ; had ,pnssed their prime. \ The ■ Commission has dono its work; fejiivlessly and lionestly, • according to its' lights, but 'Gaonoi& claim profes-, sional aibilit^ to iadjudicate upon .the! sbtffcHes:" .