10 MARCH 1917, Page 3

'Then came the suggestion that they managed these things much

better in France. He next added that we ought not to go in for a policy of attrition—another version, of course, of the attempt to fix a label of " Butcher " on the backs of Generals who refuse to let their strategy be governed by a fear of casualties. The speech altogether was, in our opinion, a very mischievous one, and likely, though not perhaps intended, for we are not going to impute motives to Mr. Churchill, to weaken the confidence of the country in the present Commander-in-Chief, with whom it is an open secret that Mr. Churchill has for some time been in disagreement as regards problems of strategy and questions of promotion.