NO POLITICAL INTERFERENCE.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14621, 28 January 1918, Page 6

NO POLITICAL INTERFERENCE.

DECLARATION BY SIR F. E>SMITH

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

Ottawa, Jan. 25

Sir Frederick Smith, .speaking at Montreal ut tho Canadian Club, said that Colonel E.epi niton's allocutions in the London "Times" to tlio effect that members of the War (Cabinet interfered with Sir Douglas Hair's plans -were unfounded. Sir Dougk:-; Haig and other generals were given greater freedom in the ccmdiu-.!, of xho campaign than ever before in Britain's history. Tie members of the Cabinet had the fullest confidence in Sir Douglas T.'aig and liks associates.