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Show OALLIPOLI Hi ITS GOODEFFECT Campaign Made an Impression on Forces of the Central Powers in Balkans. LONDON, March 19. 10:16 p. m. In anticipation of speeches by former Premier Pre-mier Asquith and Winston Spencer Churchill, former first lord of the admiralty, ad-miralty, In the house of commons tomorrow to-morrow on the Dardanelles campaign, the government tonight issued 8 white paper to parliament containing, in its own words, "certain notes which, BO far as fh public interest will allow, will replace the sense of some portions excised from the full report of the Dardanelles commission " The chief effect of the revelations lis to show that Mr. Churchill at the I end of August . 1914, being or opinion that Turkey was about to join the central powers, proposed a plan for the seizure of the Galllpoli peninsula i "by means of a Creek army of adequate ade-quate strength," with a view lo admitting admit-ting a British fleet to the sea of Marmora. Mar-mora. Ceneral Charles E. Callwell, director di-rector of military operations at the war office, pointed out that this would prove an extremely difficult operation and thai it would not be Justifiable oj undertake it with an army of less than 60.000. It is also shown that the admiralty ad-miralty officials believed ihe appearance appear-ance of a British fleet would be the signal lor a revolution in Constant ino-! ino-! pie and the Dardanelles forts i shorl oi ammunition. On March 1, 1115. the British min- ister at Athens telegraphed that M I Venizelos. then Creek premier, pro-'posed pro-'posed to offer the eo-operation of a I Greek army corps of three divisions The British minister the following da I added that the king of Greece already1 had b'-en sounded on ihis proposal and that he had heard the king "wanted war." On March 17 General Sir Ar-j thur Paget, who was engaged on a I special mission In the Balkans, sent a I telegram to Earl Kitchener, secretary for war, as follows ; 'The operations against the Iarda- nelles have made a deep impression. All possibility of Bulgaria attacking any Balkan state that might side wiih the entente now is over, and there li some reason to think that the Bulgarian Bulga-rian army will move against Turkey to , co-operate in the Dardanelles opera tlons." |