31 MAY 1919, Page 3

The last chapter of Lord French's 1914, which was published

in the Daily Telegraph of Tuesday, was perhaps the most strain and the most controversial. It contained a grand concluding attack on Lord Kitchener and Mr. Asquith for failing to supply munitions, and Lord French explained that his action in en- couraging Colonel Repington, then Military Correspondent of the Times, to make known the facts about the shortage brought about the fall of Mr. Asquith's Government. " I was conscious," he says, " before taking this step which meant the overthrow of the Government that it also meant the end of my career in France, with all the hopes and ambitions that only a soldier ran understand."