CONDUCT OF THE WAR.
CR-rnciSfM in; house of lords
(Received June 1, 1.20 p.m
LONDON, May 31. ln the House of Lords, Lord Beresf,ord criticised' the War Committee's military and political conduct of the war, which did not appear to bo sue-, cessful. ' W-e suffered for lack of quick' decisions ct critical moments. . We must stop Birrellism abroad.
Lord Crewe said no large *^novemen,t had been sanctioned without consultation .with tho navy and military advisers.- The committee consisted of Mr Asquitli, Mr McKonna, Mr Chamberlain, Lord Kitchener, Mr Balfour and Mr Lloyd-George. All urgent war matters c; me before them.
Lord ?Tidleton complained of the danger of confidential papers j straying while members of tho Cabinet numbered'23.
Lord Grewe replied that 99 per cent, of ,wn*r matters did not come before the .Cabinet. The War Committee's decision was final. Lord Salisbury contended th'at v there oiwjrht. to be a single Minister responsible for the initiation of policy. On tho Army Estimates Mr Tennant said that every effort was being made to increase the rifle strength by removing' vounger member?! of the Army Service and Ordnance Corps, but it could not be done wholesale.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH19160601.2.84.7
Bibliographic details
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 1407, 1 June 1916, Page 6
Word Count
193CONDUCT OF THE WAR. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 1407, 1 June 1916, Page 6
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Poverty Bay Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in