The Morning Post of Monday published a lively article by
Sir Charles Callwell,• who was Director of Military Operations at the War Office, about Lord French's book. General Callwell describes Lord French's statements, in brief, as "not playing the game." He points out that Lord French based his confidence on the ability of Antwerp to hold out partly on the story that the fortress might expect help from the British Fleet. " If that does not beat. all ! Antwerp lies some sixty miles up a tidal estuary of which the lower forty-five miles pass through Dutch territory." Sir Charles Callwell goes on to dispute Lord French's statement that eighty guns were lost by Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien at Le Coteau. He says that. Major Becke in The Royal-Artillery at Le Coteau gives chapter and verse for the losses as being thirty-six guns.
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