The sun., 1916-01-08
GALLIPOLI ERROR
LAID TO CHURCHILL
Ashmead = Bartlett Says the
Campaign Was Mishandled
Throughout.
MONEY GREATEST PERIL

Ellis Ashmead- Bartlett. who was the
British Governments official eye
witness" IN the parda nclles campaign.
delivered his frs. lecture on the war
last nigh, IN Carnegie Hall before a
large audience
Tile True Facts OF the Great Euro
pcan War" the lecturer called his talk
II was to have been illustrated with
stereopticon slides. bu. owing TO delay
with customs technica,.ties. he sa.a. ne
Was compelled 10 talk w.thou, the aid
OF pictures las, night
NJ. Ashmcad- Bartlett was optimistic
n his views sbou, thc aadl success OF!
England and her allies and at the same
tim" hid high praise for the lighting
qualities OF the German soldier. while
not hes,istlng repeatedly ,hroushout h's
lecture 20 score England and English.
non fo- bluEders during the war
We" he said Of England. "are anna.
teurs In regard to war playing against
professionals but don't forget that ANA.
'eurs sometime become professionals
But ! am not here to say that England
has conducted the war even intelli-
gently"
He began by telling how England had
been taken by surprise and OF her unpre.
paredness st the beginning of the war
Then the war correspondent went into
various errors he believed England had
made, such a. extreme censorship. re-
fusal to tell through her press the truth
about the war. the mistake ~ delaying
conscription and the error implanted in
the minds 81 her workmen in the frst
days Of the struggle that those who
were continuing Ia work IN British fac
tories were. by making supplies pos
sihlc. doing A. patriotic work Tor Eng.
land as the men in the trenches.
EnRland's greatest danger. said the
speaker Is her extravaganza In financing
other nations. IN the extravagance 81 her
own expenditures ard the consequent
danger of !mperlling her own economic
condition. lie laid at Winston
Church!lls door the blame for the Oar.
danelles campaign. which. he said was
an attempt to achieve the impossible and
handled throughout In Numbering
manner Gen. Ian iIamilton's statement
IN the papers yesterday that the arrival
Of 10000 more troops a. the right time
would have resulted In victory Mr.. Ash
mead BaTtIttt CdlItO 'nOilScIse
II the great a,temp, by the Allies
! this spring or summer on the continen,
TO pierce the German lines fails then.
the lecturer said. the Allies mus, re.
arrange their whole scheme OF warfare
must Withdraw as many British SOL
diers as possible from the trenches
bring them back to try to reestablirh
British commerce and home industries
az nearly as possible to what they were
IN times OF peace and 80 cause Engla nd
to wax wealthy while the Teutons, COM
PEELED TO devote all their strength "a
maintaining their double lines. will see
| Germany give in at last because Of eco
| nomc dissolution
There was amazement IN England
| said the lecturer. when. directly after
| the Lus''ania went down. America did
| no. enter the war. Then the feeling
| changed to belief In England that
she and her allies would be better of
| IL this country stayed out Of the war
| Now, however. the majority ~ English
men have come to believe. he said, tha,
| IL Is our place to night side by side with
| England FOR the preservation of Anglo
! Saxon civilization The bright spot
| Of this war, he said. Is that every day
II becomes moro evident that war It.
self is killing war.