The Times of Thursday published a letter from Mr. Samuel
Storey in which he pointed out, in reference to the controversy between Mr. Asquith and Lord Kitchener, that Lord Kitchener in the House of Lords on March 15th, 1915, said :- " The progress in equipping our new Armies, and also in supplying the necessary war material for our forces in the field,. has been seriously hampered by the failure to obtain sufficient labour and by delays in the production of the necessary plant, largely due to the enormous demand, not only of ourselves, but of our Allies."
Although there is of course here an apparent contradiction with what Mr. Asquith said at Newcastle in April,. 1915, it does not seem very difficult to reconcile the two statements. Mr. Asquith no doubt had the assurance of Lord Kitchener, which he quoted in 1915, that hitherto the forces in the field had not been seriously hampered. The hampering of the supply which the forces ought to have had is rather a different side of the subject.
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