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MR. CHURCHILL'S APOLOGIA.
AN INDECENT ATTACK" ON. THE MILITARY AUTHORITIES..
WHAT YEARLY HAPPENED IN FRANCE,
BY MAJOR-GEN, SIR`F. MAURICE, 13 THE
DAILY NEWS"}
Afr. Churchill's first volume is the most brilliant book on the war which has yet appeared. It was concerned with his time at the Admiralty and with the first part of the war at sea. His second volume now ready, and the first extraet from it bas appeared in the Times.
It is clearly to be an apologia for bis part in the ill-fated expedition to the Dardanelles. Mr. Churchill gertainly entitled to defend himself, but in doing so he begins with an attack so bitter and so mean upon the Generals, French and British alike. that it must be answered at
once,
WARS OF EXHAUSTION.
Speaking of the deadlock that ensued on the Western front with the establish- ment of the trench barrier from the North Sea to Switzerland, he says:
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DIVIDING THE BURDEN. THE COST OF THE EMPIRE'S NAVAL DEFENCE.
The Sweal and Military Becord sayaz- We in this country are as prescut pay- ing 22 lax 3d, per head for defence, Australia 17 114, South Africa 12. kl., New Zealand 11s. id, and Canada ts, cl,. so that our per capita contribution is substantially, farger than that of all these Dominions combined. When the various figures are analyse it is found that unsal costs account for yes, Sunf the British total, ss., of the Australian, 45, 74, of the New Zealand, ændi 14, 40. of the Cana- diau total. In other words, whereas most of our defence expenditure is sorbal by the Navy, the ather units of the Empire spend the major proportion of their le fence, funds on military forces, The dis. crepancy is sufficiently, marked to give food for thought.
It suggests that the Dominions are anxious to build up land forges of suficient strength to repel au invader, ou nt least to hold him in check Autil succour arrived.
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This seems to be sound policy in the cir- It does not follow that our cumstances, kinner overseas bave ceased to regard the British Navy as their first line of defence, w that they have forsaken the blue water
leetrine
"of strategy which
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necepte No war is so sanguinary as the war out
the whole
denies of exhaustion. No plan could be more unpromising than the plan of frontal sihility of invasion ass command of aas en lost. Their aim is attack. Yet on those two brutal biously to maintain land fores on pakle pedients the military authorities of France and Britain consumed the flower of repelling attacks which might be of their national manhood. Moreover the British Navy could arrive at the scene. attempted against their territory before the dull carnage, of the policy of ex- At the same time this relatively large haustion did not even apply equally to the combatantu The Anglo-Freuchexpenditure on military tablishments implies a doubt as to the value of small offensives of 1915, 1915 and 1917 were squadrons as a meas of defence. Not one in nearly every instance, and certainly of the feet units, now maintained by the in the aggrogate, far more costly to the Dominions could offer nov serique resis attack than to the German defence. It tance to anal attack by a first-class was not even a case of exchanging "Power. life for a life. Two and even three Beitiah and French lives were repeated- ly paid for the killing of one enemy, and grin calculations were made to prove that in the end the Allies would still have a balance of n-few millions to spare. It wonki appear not only possible, but incredible to future genera- tions that such doctrines should have been imposed by the military profes sion upon the ardent and heroic popula tions who siekded themselves to their orders.
This is, in effect. to say, to the millions mourning to-day those dear to then who laid down their lives in the war and" to the millions mare of evipples (I learned the other day at the International Labour Bureau at Geneva that there are more than 10,000,000 severely disabled menin Europe) that their sacrifices are due to. the pigheaded obstinacy af narrow-mind, ed generals who would not listen, to the inspired wisdom of the statesina
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Mr. Churchill's statement of the posi tion in 15 is incomplete, unfair. anil
off untrue. The grim calculations which he speaks had no part in, or in- fluence upon the plans of the Allied generals, who were then responsible for the military direction of the war. What
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man, Clemenceau by name, who, with the persistence of Cato in the Roc Senate, used to repeat in the French Chamber: "The Germans are within 100 kilometres of Paria.'
I well remember that early in 1915, before the battele of Neuve Chapelle, when Mr. Churchill was engaged in, plan- ning to get the fleet through to Constau tinople, duty took me to French-head- quarters at Chantilly and there; in. bis study, Joffre put his finger on the map hotween Noyon and Paris and said
Remember always that, if the Germans make a successful attacks there-s sommes foulus-wo are done.”
It was in that district that the Ger- mans made their great effort in March, 1918. But before that attack took place the Germans had been driven back forty miles to the outskirts of St. Quentin. It was to achieve that to protect the Channel ports and Paris, that the Allied Commanders asked. that men should be sent to France and not to be killed by Turks in the East. The men who fell achieving that saved us from imminent danger and made victory possible.
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