FAILURE AT GALLIPOLI.
REPLY TO SIR c. ROSENTHAL. MELBOURNE, July 12. Commenting on Sir Charles Rosenthal’s lecture, General Sir Talbot Hobbs, who was commander of the First Australian Division, said he entirely disagreed that the Gallipoli failure was Australia’s responsibility. “To say that the absence of the four guns Sir Charles Rosenthal mentioned was the cause of our failure at the landing is to my iniml absurd T think that if Sir Charles inspected the ground from Cape Holies to Suvla Bay he would realise that tboic weie manv more ridges beyond Gun Ridge and that the whole area was a vast natural fortress garrisoned by brave and resolute soldiers led by efficient generals who knew the ground and were experts in defence. Australia did her best, and that was ah she was able to do.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 190, 13 July 1936, Page 7
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