The Morning Post on Wednesday printed a letter in which
Sir Frederick Maurice, with the help of the Duke of North- umberland, was able to give all the facts relating to his contro- versy with the Prime Minister in the spring of 1918. Sir Frederick showed that when Mr. Lloyd George said on April 9th, 1918, and repeated the statement a month later, that the British Army in France was stronger in January, 1918, than in January, 1917, he ought to have known from the information supplied
to him that the Army was in truth much weaker. We must direct attention, however, to a letter from the Duke of North- umberland, commenting on the Prime Minister's refusal to withdraw his charge against Sir Frederick Maurice. He. says :— " The Prime Minister knew the figures sent in by the Opera. tions Directorate, and with this knowledge fresh in his mind made the utterly false statement of April 9th, and one month later' actually pretended that if a too favourable estimate had been given the fault lay with the Military Operations Direc- torate, whose warnings he had consistently disregarded."
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