LOSS OF GALLIPOLI.
LAN HAMILTON'S VIEW,
TROOPS NOT DRIVEN OUT.
LONDON, March 10,
t' The chief handicap from which the English suffer in tho race of life is their tendency to crab themselves. That is why we lost Gallipoli," said General Sir lan Hamilton, speaking at Edmonton. " Tho Turks did not drive us out," he continued. " The troops did not dream of a Turkish victory, but the press and the War Office combined to keep an agent out there who made it his business to tell everyone authoritatively that the game was up and that all was doomed to destruction.
" The commander vainly cabled and wrote, explaining the evil thus, wrought and begging that the agent bo withdrawn, but the people at home, being English, enjoyed that sort of self-depreciation. •" It lost us Galliptli. Some day, if we do riot take care, it may lost) tho Empire for us."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20519, 21 March 1930, Page 14
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