GENERAL TOWNSHEXD'S DEFENCE. Fe\, people will read the cabled summary of the White Paper covering the correspondence on the Mesopotamian campaign without a' feeling of indignation against the authorities responsible for the disaster which overtook General Townshend at Kut-el-Amara. Probably the portion of the official record that will strike the most jarring, note is the statement that neither the Home Government nor the Government of India was aware of General Townshend's socalled protests, and yet the Secretary of State for India' admits that the Gen- . eral's statement wag du& entered in the
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 June 1916, Page 4
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