THE NATION'S TASK.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13996, 28 January 1916, Page 5

THE NATION'S TASK.

A PLEA FOR YOUNGER MILITARY

• COMMANDERS

London, Jan. 24

Mr. Sidney Low, the well-known author and journalist, in an article in the "Daily Mail," points out that tiie country is at length awakening to the magnitude of her task, and tackling the war in earnest; yet an - essential change required is the retirement of elderly commanders who have failed to, rise to an emergency and brought cli's-' aster, with terrible loss, to valiant troops. A number of younger officers still in the prime of life, were tested at Mons and Le Cateau, in the exacting service imposed by the new conditions of warfare. They ought to be given a chance before their powers diminish and while they are still at the top of their form. The winnowing process is conspicuous in the Russian and French armies.