Show BLUNDERS WE fiE MANY Admiral Sims has bas contributed an article to 0 one oue of or oC the in which hi itS attacks the manage manage- management management ment ot of our tor fortes forces es In lu the world war Commenting on oa the admirals admiral's oVa als statement statement an eastern writer riter says Th The allies nearly lost ost the war ar at the very beginning when the French armies plunged forward to the offensive with insufficient artillery and incomplete knowledge of oC German defensive It W 3 nearly Dearly lost when the and Breslau were allowed to escape out ot or the Mediterranean luto Into the take Constantinople under their guns guus bring brine In Turkey on the tile Ger German man side and aud shut off oft Hussla It was nearl nearly lost when the Brit Brit n rh ar army y as Sir John French charged was vis starved ot or muni nearl lost then hen tons LIons It was as nearly I Russia went out of or the war and German divisions were brought west It was nearly lost when hen the British front from was thinned t td to pro pro- provide vide ilde de troops for tor the Palestine ex cx- expedition and broke b Couch's Gough's army It Jl was nearly lost ost when the allies in face tace oC or that crisis continued d to 10 tumble with the question or of o uni- uni uni unified fied lied command On Oit the other side there has boen no lack of or argumentation to prOTe prore how bow very ery nearl nearly the war was a won The Thi Germans nearly won at the beginning but tor for the general jeneral staffs staff's ghastly error In diverting a couple o or of army corps to corps to tho Russian front before the battle of or the Mama Marn was decided Several years year ears later according to Ule tue war at was nearly iron but for tor tho the infamous knife knife- knife in the back back delivered by at home borne And ot or course coune according to von the war could have bave been won several times it If ruthlessness on the seas hat had been earlier earlier brought Into play It If the war was wa nearly lost for the allies because profession profession- al al soldiers were slow to recognize the he merits of ot the tank there is C iden e that the German war or of- of of-fic of fice had to be cajoled and bludgeoned bludgeoned into adopting the poison polson gas sas nearly won the Hie war for hm h rn at Ypres In a conflict of ill h lt tragically vast dimensions there here was wa plenty of opportunity for COI blunders blunder on both sides as also for tor devotion and resourcefulness The simple tact fact would seem to be hat after aCter the Or first six weeks of oC the war all chances had disappear disappeared ed d d ot of the war being nearly won wonc o C lost The struggle became one or of resources and endurance The Tho Thear Thear ar was not won on nearly but hard hard 1 cost l 1 at the ot of untold exertions it und od sacrifice |