The report of the Committee appointed ast December to enquire into War Otlice organisation was published yesterday. is a huge Blue Book consisting of verbatim reports of masses of evidence, together with the Committee's recommendations chaotic lack of system which more than based upon this evidence, and it reveals a
just fies the bitterest things which have been said by the inst hostile crit'es of the Department. One might go thro the evidence and pick out items revealing the amazingly unbu ess-like system on which the War Office is conducted. The crux 1 is, however, embodied in finding, in which they state that. "the government of the army by the War Office is lainly carried on by a vast system of minute regulations which tend to destroy the responsibility of general officers, and to suppress individuality and initiative iv all ranks."
wonderful that, trained on our officers showed a lack of i: the early days at the front in South Afr
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