. Review of reviews and world's work. nts, and friendly suasion, left himin command of an unequipped band of interna-tional soldiers, surrounded by covert enemies andpaid spies. When the history of the Salonica Ex-pedition is written it may wreck the writers rep-utation for veracity, so incredible are the dense-ness, obstinacy, and scorn of logic and commonsense which it will reveal. Here, as I read it, is a very frank state-ment that the responsibility for the failure ofSarrail to act at the decisive moment, whenaction might have repaired the whole Balkanmess of a year ago, rests with the Bri
. Review of reviews and world's work. nts, and friendly suasion, left himin command of an unequipped band of interna-tional soldiers, surrounded by covert enemies andpaid spies. When the history of the Salonica Ex-pedition is written it may wreck the writers rep-utation for veracity, so incredible are the dense-ness, obstinacy, and scorn of logic and commonsense which it will reveal. Here, as I read it, is a very frank state-ment that the responsibility for the failure ofSarrail to act at the decisive moment, whenaction might have repaired the whole Balkanmess of a year ago, rests with the British andflows from a refusal to give Sarrail theproper resources to enable him to make thebest of a golden opportunity. Apparentlythere is no limit to the capacity of the Britishto blunder in the Near East. British stu-pidity cost Serbia her liberty; the unspeak-able folly of British field command lost allthe great chances to win in Gallipoli; Sir Ed-ward Greys handling of the Balkan situa-tion completed the ruin of Serbia, and in- 1. THE BALKJVN : THE ALLIES PRF^PARATIONS-THE STORES OF SHELLS FOR ANY EVENTUALITY—A. FRENCH AMMUNITION DEPOT OUTSIDE SALONICA(Each nest of shells consists of four rciw*. ;ii il is roofed with a sheet of corrugated iron) GERMJXY STRIKES RUMJXIJ JXD SJFES THE BJLKJXS 509 ^ 1 f ^^i ^-». ^B^SL P ^ — - •*? w^3^- r^JL ^ ^ ^ m ? ;/*-• > ^ i . ? , •? ^^ . -i-t - 4^i ^ ^ ^ -m. sii^.^ IK -/^ l» ^^ ^ —^ ? ?? J ^ bj iha Aiffifin Press Asneiatoo GREEK SOLDIERS HAULING BIG GUNS sured the disaftection of Greece. As forKut-el-Amara and the Mesopotamian mess,the truth about them cannot yet be told inEngland, and has amounted to a nationalscandal. I have a ver>- well-informed correspondentwho from time to time writes to me to say:I am afraid of Sarrail; he is a political gen-eral. He will make a great blunder the evidence at hand seems to point to ablunder. There has been, so far, a greatfailure—this is clear, even if the sit
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