LORD FRENCH'S REVELATIONS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17630, 21 May 1919, Page 5

LORD FRENCH'S REVELATIONS

TRIBUTE TO BRITISH STATESMEN.

LLOYD GEORGE AND CHURCHILL PRAISED.

THE HEAVY ARTILLERY DEFICIENCY. ' Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, May 12. Lord French continues his narrative in the Daily Telegraph. He says that he impressed on the War Office on September 26, 1914, our terrible deficiency in heavy artillery. Official correspondence on the subject continued until June, 1915, when Mi- Lloyd George came to the rescue and entered on his career of patriotic • salvation. all over the world," he writes, "will ever remember this distinguished statesman with the utmost gratitude as one of the greatest of the Empire's sons. An awful responsibility rested with him, and he worked in the face of a dead weight of senseless but powerful opposition."

Lord French also says he cannot adequately express his sense of the valuable help he received throughout from Mr Winston Churchill, who assisted in sketching plans for an offensive with one flank towards the sea. Although the subsequent faLU of Antwerp effected a drastic change m the conditions, these plans -were substantially the same as took shape earlv in 1915. •

QUESTION IN THE COMMONS.

LORD FRENCH'S DUAL POSITION.

LONDON, May 12. Arising out of Lord French's articles and his criticism of subordinates, a question was asked in tlie House of Commons whether the Government was. prepared to permit officers holding commands to replv to Lord French. Mr Bonar Law answered in the negative. Mr Churchill later stated thai the Army Council was in no way responsible for Lord French s articles. The Armv Act distmgnished between serving soldiers and those in Lord French's position (Viceroy of Ireland).—A. and N.Z. Cable.