KITCHENER AND WAR OFFICE MADE EVERY POSSIBLE MISTAKE

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2310, 1 December 1925, Page 2

KITCHENER AND WAR OFFICE MADE EVERY POSSIBLE MISTAKE

WHEN I/LOYD GEORGE RESIGNED AS 'MINISTER OF MUNITIONS 1915. “Nicoll always-steadfastly maintained that no other man did so much to win the war as Mr. Lloyd George,” writes Mr. T. H. Darlow, the biographer of Sir William Robertson Nicoll, in his “Life and Letters.” He describes a luncheon in 1915 at the house of Sir George Riddell with Mr. Lloyd George and Lord Reading (Lord Chief Justice). Mr. Lloyd George told his friends that he wished them to hear th e reasons which were moving to him to resign his poet as Minister of Munitions. » He spoke for nearly an hour, wrote Sir William, piling up' one fact after | another to show that Kitchener and the War Office had made every mistake conceivable, had cleared out all the able men. and had got us Into such a case that wc may well lose .; .. Asquith, Hal four. Grey greatest contempt for TC., in because they think he IVHHHHBH opinion on his side • - • • vH|HH who has lost the recruiting, is now more ll ■J'Jj dominant in what is left. “Tlie public do not yet (hey owe to Mr. Lloyd wrote in September, 1916, April, 191 S “I am getting rather alarmed T,. G„ Everybody is bashing his regardless of the fact that they no substitute for him.”