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Show f , nly Chronicle Re-5 Re-5 "f Robertson Received ; '""with Consternation. BRITISH SOLDIER Stain Was 1 Turned Down. nvr Feb lS.-Tho idea that 'lVfrvinR to dictate to the pVS their military policy rs3' JJJ i9 to bo employed to 5 l t I? depreciated by the Dally &01n 'n editorial on the sltua- ,hVabout by the announce - br00?f meral Robertson had been 5lfi ?e of the imperial staff. is one for the present i Ti 'ays. "and while It is narl ament to change the min-' min-' t0noPc urastances have been d Is- (n he present instance which n. such an upheaval." . I Falls to Carry Conviction. I '"fnr'rcmarklnK that the pre-i pre-i n" rfvnt speech in the house of I l?,n failed to carry complete con-Ji con-Ji jg.-Tys the result has been a storm of exaggeration and political Intrigue over what seems to have been a most natural and common sense arrangement. ar-rangement. It declares that a full explanation ex-planation of events obviously Is overdue. over-due. News of General Robertson's removal, re-moval, tho Morning Post says, will be received with consternation by the public and the army. It ouloglzes General. Gen-eral. Robertson, not only as tho great-'est great-'est British soldier of his day but as tho highest military genius the war thus far has produced. Success Due to Robertson. "It is Impossible to exaggerate," It says, "how much efficiency and success suc-cess tho British arms owo to General Robertson." Declaring that it is evident that General Robertson has been dismissed and that those who dismissed him find it inconvenient to confess the truth, the Post says that parliament will insist in-sist on knowing why the distinguished soldier is treated so scurvllly. It continues: "If the summary dismissal of General Gen-eral Robertson Is not enough to shatter shat-ter our confidence in Premier Lloyd-Georgo Lloyd-Georgo and the government, the circumstances cir-cumstances of the dismissal would do it." The need of the hour is a premier who, while knowing where' to forbear Interference with what ho does not understand, will know also how to throw his whole weight Into the prosecution pros-ecution of the War. James "W. Lowther, the speaker of the house of commons, and General Jan C. Smuts are mentioned by the Post as the type of men fitted to head tho government Jhj&i'j233 |