CRITIC OF THE GOVERNMENT
44 NO GENIUS FOR WAR."
TIMES CORRESPONDENT AGAIN
Times and Sydney Sim Services. (Received September I. 5 p.m.) London, August 31
Colonel pington. the military correspondent of the Times, asserts that the military direction of the; war on the British side has not been 1 happy or particularly fortunate | since the initial decision in August, , 1914. We have increased our force' in France, bat in other improvisations the Cabinet has shown conspicuously the absence of a genius for war. We have merely drifted, ungoverned by any strategic sense. Colonel Repington specifies the unorganised state of the munitions supply, the failure to adopt national service, the landing at Antwerp, which he describfs as a fiasco, and the Dardanelles expedition, which, he declares, has been directed from London in an amateur, scatterbrained fashion, and has lacked the surprise and impetuosity necessary to carry it through successfully.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16012, 2 September 1915, Page 7
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