Next Sir Charles Callwell remarks that high explosive was for
the first time employed seriously in the Balkan campaign of 1912. Lord French was then Chief of the General Staff, but the Staff stood out against adopting this explosive. When high explosive began .to be used by our guns against Germany it was rather defective and sometimes burst prematurely. " It will readily be understood that those, responsible did not see much point in going on turning out this disconcerting ammuni- tion until the. cause of the mischief had been established." Turning to the Northcliffe Press " stunt " about the shell shortage, Sir Charles Callwell says that though the stunt- per- formed in some respects a useful service because it helped to wake the country up, the Ministry of. Munitions " got credit, that they were not entitled to."
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