FAILURE AT GALLIPOLI
“AUSTRALIA CARRIES RESPON-
SIBILITY”
(Received 2.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day,
Major-General Sir Charles Rosenthal, in the Gallipoli lecture, said: “Australia carries a grave responsibility for the failure at Gallipoli. I say that deliberately, and without fear of contradiction.
“If the howitzers had been landed to support the Anzacs on their first day on the Peninsula, the War might have been shortened by two or three years.”
Major-General Rosenthal served as an officer at the landing and explained that before the War he was in command of a special howitzer battery, which had been foi'med in New South Wales. He urged the military commander that these guns should be taken aboard with the troops. During his lecture, he said: “If, on the first morning at Gallipoli, we had had the howitzers on the beach, I am certain cur infantry would have x’eached their objective, Gun Ridge, on the same morning.”••
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Northern Advocate, 11 July 1936, Page 7
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