14 OCTOBER 1922, Page 2

The Times of Saturday published an important letter from Mr.

Boner Law. He pointed out that unless the Turkish forces, flushed with victory, had been warned against crossing into Thrace there might have been terrible results. Our withdrawal in such circumstances " would have been regarded throughout the whole Moslem world as the defeat of the British Empire," and such an advance of the Turkish forces would probably have meant a repetition in Constantinople of the recent events in Smyrna. Most of this we have ourselves admitted. Mr. Boner Law's comments are, however, very significant. Although he refrained from criticizing the recent action of the Government on the ground that the situation was too grave when he wrote, we may gather from his warnings for the future exactly what he thinks of the past.