SIR lAN HAMILTON.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16723, 26 April 1920, Page 3

SIR lAN HAMILTON.

ON THE GALLIPOLI CAMPAIGN. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. LONDON, April 24, Speaking at an array dinner at Sheffield, General Sir Inn Hamilton read cabled greetings from Sir William Birdwood on behalf of his Anzac comrades. Sir lan Hamilton declared that after the successful landing at the Dardanelles tho forces could on several occasions have advanced and captured Constantinople, knocked out tho Turks, and joined hands w-ith the Russians, and immobilised Bulgaria, hut the higher .direction of tho Entente could not make up their minds. There were periods when, without endangering the safety ot Calais or Paris, tho forces at tho Dardanelles might have borrowed for a few days a small number of howitzers, trench mortars, and aeroplanes, which would have ensured absolute success. “We British never make use of our amphibious powers to carry out strategical movements on a grand scale,” added the General. ‘-‘Undoubtedly mistakes were made, both on the spot and at home, hut the idea of forcing the Dar - danelles was essentially sound, and must have triumphed if tho reins of British direction had boon held in London instead of in Paris and on the West Front.” —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.