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K. was standing by his desk splashing about with his pen at three different drafts of instructions. One of them had been drafted by Fitz I suppose under somebody's guidance; the other was by young Buckley; the third K. was working on himself. Braithwaite, Fitz and I were in the room; no one else except Callwell who popped in and out.
Why not let French have two of my Central Force Territorial Division at once, they were jolly good and were wasting their time over here. That would sweeten French and he and Joffre would make no more trouble about the 29th. K. glared at me. I don't know what he was going to say when Callwell came into the room with some papers.
We moved to the map in the window and Callwell took us through a plan of attack upon the Forts at the Dardanelles, worked out by the Greek General Staff. Their landing was to have taken place on the North-west coast of the Southern part of the Peninsula, opposite Kilid Bahr.
General Callwell has pointed out that the naval commanders were properly worried about what would happen after they got through the Straits, if the Sublime Porte should not promptly "throw up the sponge." "The communications would have remained closed to colliers and small craft by movable armament, if not also by mines. Forcing the pass would in fact have resembled bursting through a swing door.
Nor could they if he were the K. of old; the K. who downed Milner and Chamberlain by making a peace by agreement with the Boers and then swallowed a Viceroy and his Military Member of Council as an appetiser to his more serious digest of India. But is he? Where are the instruments? gone to France or gone to glory. Callwell is the exception.
"Now! now! look at his lordship!" cried Miss Bland; "he has his note-book out again." "Mercy on us!" said Miss Callwell, "how he is writing!" "Yes, yes, write on, my good cousin Craiglethorpe," pursued Lady Geraldine, "and nil the little note-book, which will soon turn to a ponderous quarto.
The batteries, and especially the mobile artillery of the Turks, still greatly hampered the work of mine sweeping, which at terrible hazards was carried on at night within the Straits. In the meantime the Government, to quote General Callwell, the Director of Military Operations, had "drifted into a big military attack."
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