DARDANELLES REPORT.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume IV, Issue 962, 12 March 1917, Page 8

DARDANELLES REPORT.

BITTER PARTY STRIFEEXPERTS' SILENCE CONDEMNED. United Service. LONDON, March 9. The Dardanelles report has led to an outbreak of bitter newspaper party feeling. The "Evening News" demands the impeachment of "the old gang." The "Pall Mall Gazette" states:— "The report reveals a type of organisation which was doomed to defeat even with a fair beginning and the best of fortune. Punishment for such an inept system was inevitable."

The "Westminster Gazette" remarks:—"Why exneris should attend the War Councils if they are not to speak, and how they could keep silent if they differed materially from tlie views expressed is not understandable. The only possible inference to draw from Mr Asquith's statement is that the experts thought the operations possible."