On Monday in the Daily Mail Mr. Lovat Fraser continued
his Criticisms in the form of a letter to Lord Derby. It is unnecessary to look into his strategical arguments, which have not become wiser after a week's thought. Two points, however, strike us as worth mentioning. The first is that Mr. Lovat Fraser follows rather closely the arguments lately used by the Prime Minister about the magnitude of the casualties in comparison with the smallness of the results obtained ; and the second is that all through his article Mr. Lovat Fraser appears to assume that there is a contradiction of feeling or interest between the civil Government and the soldiers, and that it is necessary for him to back the civil
Government. This assumption seems to be regarded as so much a matter of course that it is likely to feed the suspicion which we referred to above. The Prime Minister may rightly appear to disregard Lord Northcliffe's papers, but if the Army is suspicious, as we believe it is, he really cannot afford to refuse to open his mind frankly and freely.
