SIR EDWARD CARSON.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXV, Issue 10713, 4 November 1915, Page 5

SIR EDWARD CARSON.

| CRITICISES THE GOVERNMENT. OKcccivctl .Last Night, 10.50 o'clock. V LONDON, November o^l. Sir Edward Carson, .speaking in tU<>. Houso of Commons after the delivery of Mr,Asquit-h's statement, said the count 17 was really an.vous about throj tilings, munch", whether the resources of men and material wc.it> being used to the host' advantage. • whether what appeared to be grave ini.scalcillations could havo been avoided, a-nd whether tho machinery c '> Government was the most ,'llVctive for carrying on the war. Tho country was groping in the dark on these questions. A Vrrblo rcvelaiiioiv was flic absence of iiuuiittus. J'liis showed that the Cabinet machine wa,s utterly mcapa.bk of ewTjvng <m the war. ft wras impossible to understand why,* at the ifcry moment the .shortagn of munitions. was discovered,. Cair'net' had fenk.'iv on the expedition at file Dardanelles. wlu'oli. li-.wl" ln'uia round rlsjir lios-k-s like a throughout the siunnii r. The Goverjif' ■niciit was not jus tfficd in enbcj* upon the J>ai;.daae 1 u« wliicih had cost a- hundred ,tlK>iisaaid in casualties, and suffering baffl-Jig dosc.nipbi.im, unless the£l* jhavnl av.-J military advisers could give a.ssur-

aiui.vs of its sumvs'- ! conclusion. There lint] never bci .'i such a story of miscalculations. .Ho cons : dered that the failure at Suvl'a Bay was the most disa stilus and most vital in the who]'.war. Under the Cabinet system, tliO (.'orerivinoiit was unable to make tin its minds whether it. ought to bo abli to jyorced w'th the operations, or should boldly withdraw and save tho suffering and flosses which went on. The/Vi was absolutely 110 hope of any result. Wo wanted the best miliitarv staff wo could, get, but, so far .as he could .see when in Cabinet, tb'iv-\va* no Staff at .all. .He did 'not think the IVemi>or'R plan would bo a great' :m----provement. Tho wholo question was one if a. concentration of responsibility. A small number of competent men should sit., daily with the, best expert advisers, working out problems as they arose. The gravest instance of how Cabinet was worked could bpfound in the Balkan situation. The Premier had just said that the Government had made up its mind, in conjunction with the Allies to carry out its pledge to Serbia.