A GALLIPOLI REPORT.
LOST BY MINISTER. STAGGERING CARELESSNESS. LONDON, October 5. Brigadier-General Waters Has published his memoirs, entitled “Secret and Confidential,” in which he recounts fascinating anecdotes of his services as a military attache. As typical of Cabinet Ministers’ carelessness, General Waters recounts that in 1892 the Naval Military Committee secretly reported that it would be suicidal ever to attempt to force the Dardanelles by warships alone. Only six copies of the report were printed and circulated. Later they were recalled, but four were never returned. Lord Salisbury replied that he believed he put his copy in the pocket of an old coat which he gave to a gardener, and Mr. Arthur Balfour said he had not the slightest idea what he did with his copy. —(A. and N.Z.). (Brigardier-General Waters, who was born in 1855, entered the Royal Artillery in 1875. He was military attache at St. Petersberg from 1893 to 1898, and at Berlin from 1900 to 1903. He served in the South African War during 1899-1900, was attached to the Russian Army in Manchuria in 1904-5, and commanded the troops in China from 1906 to 1910. He was Chief of the British Military Mission to the Imperial Russian General Headquarters ifi 1916). ’ *
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAG19261007.2.38
Bibliographic details
Wairarapa Age, 7 October 1926, Page 5
Word Count
205A GALLIPOLI REPORT. Wairarapa Age, 7 October 1926, Page 5
Using This Item
National Media Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of National Media Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in