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Show INACTION CAUSED ALLIES TO LOSE. EngUsh papers arriving at tho Standard under date as late as October Octo-ber 26, diacloso a feeling of mistrust over the war, especially the handling 1 of the campaign in tho Dardanelles. I The London Observer says: 1 nJnmt now tum to Gallipoll 1 unf hf0' U 6ftlvo action can I Sftho ftX?6? tna th0 Grcok sldQ I of tho Peninsula, can it bo attempted I nO0n?ft Sld CoSantl 1 yP With 50Ur8e'. ey of tho war. witb moro strength and re- military oporaUons by the rovern-ment rovern-ment at home, ConstanUnople ouTd assuredly have become the prSo of amphibious power. There 4a dS ?i?rd m,ld0aa ,d PeraonaliUes. On tho miUtary side our measures wore t usually too little and too late The J Turks always had timo to overtoj our increased exertions at every stage. The government as a whole could never rise to tho conception of making sure ot Constantinople while there was time, of carrying through at any cost the enterprise once attempted. The hour has not como to review these past things, and the whole situation sit-uation is profoundly modified. From last autumn It was supposed that the government would make certain of the Bulgarian position before laying n plan of such high ambition and daring dar-ing promise as the capture of Constantinople. Con-stantinople. "Whether there Is any chance that It might still be done is for tho military mili-tary and naval advisers of the government gov-ernment to say. We need not point out that if Constantinople could be taken the whole military situation in the East would be made right at one blow. Tho resources of the Turkish empire would be completely cut off from the Central empires. Tho bulk of tho Turkish army would be jeopardized jeop-ardized in the Thraclan enclave. Tho allies would have tho complete command com-mand of the Black Sea. Russia could land in Bulgaria. Roumanla would join tho allies. Tho tables would bo turned clean over. Serbia "would bo redeemed with a vengeance. We know not whether these aro now merely dreams of what might have been had tho British government, as a whole, realized months ago all that was at stake. ' "Even now there are, we suppose, somo 200.000 Turks held in Gallipoll a bottle with a neok only four miles wide. Is it still impossible for the cork to be put In by overwhelming sea-power manipulating a sufficient military force? The answer to this question dopends upon topographical details, which can only be judged on the spot, and civilian speculation at a distance would bo worthless. If action can not be effective either In Macedonia or in Thrace, the third course would imply total abandonment abandon-ment of the Balkans, It would be a detestable course, and might havo for several reasons the most far-reaching effect for evil on tho whole European situation.-. But it would be preferable to tho still more disastrous failures certain to result from nerveless and hesitating action." oo |