6 NOVEMBER 1915, Page 14

Mr. Asquith's account of our difficulties at the Dardanelles contained

some frank admissions. Perhaps the most illumi- nating parts of this portion of the speech were the following sentences in regard to the project of forcing the Straits: " The chances of success seemed to us and those on the spot not only great but preponderating. The consequences of success if it had been attained were almost immeasurable. It would have solved the whole situation in the Balkans, and prevented the possibility of what is unhappily a realized fact —the adhesion of Bulgaria to our opponents."