GALLIPOLI ECHOES
SIR lAN HAMILTON
CRITICISM BY ADMIRAL LONDON, Dec. 1. Did Sir lan Hamilton have in mind Admirals Lord Fisher and Sir John Roebuck when lie told the British Legion in his recent outspoken statement on Gallipoli that senior admirals trembled for their beloved ships 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 to take the Fleet through the Narrows before wo occupied both shores,” he went on. “The Narrows were mined and torpedo tubes were placed on the shores. The waters were so shallow that ships striking mines would have blocked the gaps in the mine field, and Die shore batteries could not have been destroyed by gunfire from ships outside.
These stubborn facts prove that Sir lira’s statements are absurd,” concludes Admiral Kerr.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17958, 9 December 1932, Page 5
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