UNFOUNDED ATTACKS ON BRITISH OFFICERS

104 pages, beige paper covered boards with red pictorial script on front cover.

Mendelssohn (Sidney) SOUTH AFRICAN BIBLIOGRAPHY volume 2 page 403: ‘The author states that as he has had twenty-six years' experience " in a steady-going, old, untitled regiment, and also eight years more on the Staff," he might possibly be an older soldier than the " British Staff Officer" who wrote the book entitled "An Absent-minded War." It is asserted that the Intelligence Department gave correct information as to the fighting strength and armaments of the Boers, but their numbers were increased by about 15,000 foreigners. Previous to the war the advice of the Commander-in-Chief and other military experts was constantly rejected on the score of expense, and the Intelligence Department was run by Sir John Ardagh and twenty-five officers, while the same department in the German army was represented by no less than 260 men. The writer warmly defends the regimental and staff officers, and deprecates the attacks on the Intelligence and other departments of the War Office.’