Identifier: timeshistoryofwa10lond (find matches)
Title: The Times history of the war
Year: 1914 (1910s)
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Subjects: Times history of the war Times history and encyclopaedia of the war World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: London
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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TIMES HISTOUY OF THE WAR. lUUiiitiunH criiiiH whicti Imtught ilown thuLiberal Ciuvtinuiit^iit iTouttnl, us Iuih bmui8ti«ii, tlu^ Minititry of Munitiuim under Mr.Lloyil Cioorgo. That \va« thti firat large on-crttaclinient upon the jjowersanil n^sponsibilitioHof the overburdtmetl Secrttiuy of State for War.Lortl Kitcheners great public prestige remained,and luifortunately his colleagues remained atall tiineti ready to shelter behind it. Hut moreantl iiiore the war outgrew the possibilities ofan organization the central feature of which of the (iovernment in regard to militaryi);)erationB. ihi.s meant tlitiL Sir WilliamKohertson would enjoy far greater powers thanthe chief of the Cleneral Stal? had possessedhitherto, and that orders to commanders wouldgo out in his nanm and no longer in that of tijoSecjetaiy of State for War. Even so, thecentialization at the War OHico remained thesubject of severe criticisni up to the eve ofLord Kitcheners tragic death at sea at thebeginning ot .June.
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MR. LLOYD GEORGE AS SECRETARY FOR WAR, IN CONSULTATION WITH M. BRIAND, THE FRENCH PREMIER. was concentration of responsibility in LordKitcheners own hands, while every day in-creased the necessity for delegation of responsi-biUty. At last, just before Clxristmas, afterLord Kitchener had retmned from the visit—a preface to the evacuation of Gallipoli—which, at the request of his colleagues, hemade to the Eastern theatre of war, theImperial General Staff was reorganized withSir William Robertson as its chief. Subse-quently it was laid down by an Order in Covincil(Jan. 27, 1916) that the Chief of the GeneralStaf? shall be responsible for issuing the orders When Lord Kitchener died Mr. Lloyd Georgebecame Secretary of State for War, beingsucceeded as Minister of Munitions by Mr.Montagu. The question of the countrys position withregard both to home defence against the raidsof aircraft and to the supplj of suitable andsufficiently abundant aeroplanes for otlensivepurposes at the front wa

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