From ‘Sir Ian Hamilton’s Despatch’, The Spectator, 10 July 1915:
THE despatch from Sir Ian Hamilton which was published in the papers of Wednesday leaves the reader in no doubt that the Dardanelles campaign is one of the most difficult operations of war ever undertaken by an army. We have tried, and are still trying, to take by assault positions which may be compared with Gibraltar, the fortified walls of Heligoland, the ancient Roman Capitol, or any other famous fortified place of which the very name stands for impregnability. Although Sir Ian Hamilton does not, of course, discuss the changing policy which has governed our adventure at the Dardanelles by sea and land, oven his despatch cannot avoid making us acutely conscious of the light-hearted, fumbling methods by which we gradually became engaged in a major campaign.
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