While we are dealing with this aspect of the situation,
we desire to make quite clear our own position as regards the war in Gallipoli and the Salonika expedition. It would be futile in a high degree for any newspaper to attempt to advise, or even to suggest, how military operations should be conducted The Government alone know the facts, and only the Govern- ment can decide as to details. All we can do is to speak of general policy, and to say that every possible effort must be made to help Serbia, and to keep the situation in the Balkans, in the interests of the Allies, from tumbling to pieces. To the Government must be left the best way of accomplishing this policy. If they decide that, owing to the absolutely changed nature of the situation, they can use the troops now in Gallipoli to better advantage on the mainland, they will, of course, move the troops to that line of greater advantage. If that should be their decision, no patriotic man will dream of censuring them for such a course of action—even if his own opinion points in another direction. Our supply of men is limited, and all we ask is that the Government should use them to the best purpose.
