Mr. Stanley Baldwin's promise to reconsider the question of recogniz~ ing General Sic Hubert "Gough's services during the Great War will be welcomed by all of those who felt that the Prime Minister's last answer the House of Commons, to a question on the subject, hardly did justice tothe man who has laban Under very considerable and wrong ful eritleismy ever since he was re-Neved of the command of the Sth 'Army, General Gough was obliged {o relinquish his command following, the retreat of his army in June, 1918, Ht. was considered by Mr, Lloyd who was then Prime Minister that the commander' was wholly' to lame for what had happened then.
hag since transpired that General Gough was completely blameless, and Mr. Lloyd George has publicly recognized the fact that a grave injustice was done to him, He was, as a matter of course, overlooked when rewards at the end of the war came (0 be distributed, and it I now very strongly felt that the General, having had his military reputation "com= pletely vindicated, should not be derived of those recognitions which other commanders, perhaps, "more fortunately "placed, received. " Mr. Baldwin, at the end of last' year, seemed to consider that it would be best to let matters stand where they did, believing that General Gough would be satisfied with the vindieaton he had received. Public opinion nas since been crystallized in favour of rendering to the aggrieved General every recompense that could possibly be made to him, That opinion is the expression of the true British sens Of justice; it Is sincerely to be hoped that og a result of this further con-alteration, arangoments will be made whereby the injured. officer will ceive full compensation for all that hho hag suffered during the last elghteen years,
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