GALLIPOLI RE-ECHO
HAMILTON TAKEN TO TASK
LONDON, 2nd December.
Did Sir lan Hamilton have in mind Admiral I xml Fisher and Sir John Roebuck when be told the British Legion in bis recent outspoken statement on Gallipoli that, senior admirals trembled for their beloved ship* immediately they saw a fort?
Admiral Mark Kerr presumes he did, and adds: “Every officer acquainted with these gallant sailors, also with -Sir Roger Keyes, will deprecate Sir lan s aspersions. “It would have been madness lo take the Fleet through the Narrows before the occupied (lie shores,” be went on. “The Narfrows were mined and torpedo tubes were placed on Hie shores. The waters were so shallow that ships striking mines would have blocked tbe gap* in (he mine field, and the shore batteries could not have been destroyed by gunfire from ships outside. “These stubborn facts prove flint Sir lan’s statements are absurd,” concludes Admiral Kerr.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 14 December 1932, Page 7
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