ABSTRACT

The exact nature of the situation is difficult to communicate always; still it may be brought home to the mind by means of systematic demonstration, founded on personal and habitual experience. This chapter examines various alternative operations which might be undertaken by the Army of the Eastern Mediterranean to counter the resounding blow to prestige which evacuation would inflict on people through the East. Strictly speaking the scope of the Dardanelles Committee was limited to the Dardanelles campaign, and they were not concerned with the Western Front at all. In actual fact, however, all the fronts, from Calais to the Persian Gulf, were intimately locked together, and no decision affecting one could be taken without repercussion on the remainder. This consideration became even more cogent when the course of events compelled to come to the rescue of Serbia, and was destined before long to lead to the formation of an all-embracing War Committee.