THE GOVERNMENT'S INDECISION.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13979, 8 January 1916, Page 5

THE GOVERNMENT'S INDECISION.

SIR lAN HAMILTON'S ABSENCE FROM &UVLA.

(Received Jan. 7, 11.45 p.m.)

London, Jan. 7.

''The, Times'' comments that paralysis overtook the Government after the refusaLoi Sir. lain Hamilton's request for icore-'men, and the.aclu'al abandonment was delayed for four months, giving point to' Sir Edward Carson's declaration that the Government could not' ;nako up their minds. Tho Sin la landing was in many respects deplorable, but when everybody alse has been amply, and deservedly blamed ,th© final question will be why Sir Ianv Hamilton, wb» was on tho spot and knew the right

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fcowse to follow, meoliy effaced-himself at the critical moment.