Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 930 The position is wrong

After the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force launched the Battle of the Dardanelles, the Russian Empire had stopped any military operations towards Constantinople.

On the one hand, this is because the Russian Empire is worried that Constantinople will fall into the hands of the United Kingdom, and the Black Sea Fleet still cannot obtain its own passage to and from the Black Sea. On the other hand, it is also because Hindenburg and Ludendorff gave the Russian Empire Too much pressure, the war broke out so far, the Russian Empire has lost nearly 200 million people, Germany has captured nearly 40 Russian soldiers, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire has captured nearly 30 people.

After the outbreak of the Battle of the Dardanelles, the Russian Empire transferred the Eighth Army that attacked Constantinople to the Eastern Front and no longer put any pressure on the Ottoman Empire. This is a huge bad news for Roque. The Eighth Army After being transferred, the Second Army deployed by the Ottoman Empire around Constantinople was released. After the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force landed in Bolayer, part of the Second Army has begun to move to Bolayer, trying to Rescue the Fifth Army whose retreat was cut off.

After General Goltz's First Army was wiped out, the Second Army was the most powerful army in the Ottoman Empire, with more than fifteen divisions and a total strength of 22.

That's why Roque eliminated the Fifth Army at all costs, so that he could concentrate on dealing with the Second Army of the Ottoman Empire.

The first to attack the Fifth Army was the Anzac Army, which had suffered heavy losses in the previous phase of the battle. This time, Brad Nancy had no reason anymore. Goba Heights, but after Mustafa Kemal yelled the famous phrase "I am not asking you to attack, I am telling you to die, and after we are dead, other troops and their commanders will continue to fight! Afterwards, Ottoman forces retook the Goba Heights, re-pinning the Anzacs at the cove where they had landed erroneously.

This unknown small bay finally has a famous name, and it is now called "Anzac Bay".

After the Battle of the Dardanelles broke out, another Anzac unit arrived in the Mediterranean. Winston also assigned this unit to Roque's command, which aroused strong protests from Frenzie.

After the loss of Ypres, the British Expeditionary Force suffered heavy losses and urgently needed new troops.

Regardless of the situation in Ypres, Joffre completely entrusted the defense of Ypres to the British Expeditionary Force. Joffre did not plan to recapture Ypres, but planned to launch a new offensive in Chambani and Artois. There seems to be a kind of competition in the world, everyone wants to be the leader of the coalition forces, France has this strength, but Joffre is too stupid, Frenzi has this idea, but the British expeditionary force is seriously insufficient.

Under the premise of a serious shortage of troops, Winston still stubbornly allocated the precious Anzac reinforcements to Roque's command, which made Frenzi very dissatisfied.

For this purpose, Frenzi found his friend Charles Repington. Charles Repington was Frenzi's old comrade-in-arms. After retiring from the army, he worked as a war correspondent for The Times and was interviewing in Belgium.

Contrary to the position of The Times, Charles Repington published a series of articles in The Times attacking Winston and Kitchener on the grounds that Winston would have belonged to Troops from the Western Front were transferred to other battlefields, and the reason for attacking Kitchener was that the British Expeditionary Force did not get enough shells.

It is understandable that no matter which battlefield the troops are transferred to, they are used to fight against the Allies.

Insufficient supply of shells is an old problem. Strictly speaking, it should be a shortage of artillery. This is not a problem that can be solved in a day or two. The artillery produced in Southern Africa since last winter has been used to equip the Southern African Expeditionary Force. There is no command of the Southern African Expeditionary Force.

"The Times" is an industry under Rock's name. When he found out that the newspaper under his name was attacking his close comrades-in-arms, Rock was very angry. Charles Repington was directly fired and was responsible for page review and writing. The editor of the correction was also implicated, so Lord Beiyan came to Cyprus to find Roque, hoping that Roque would give the editors more freedom, but Roque resolutely refused.

"I'm sorry, my lord. In this world, no one has real freedom. Even the king's power is restricted by the Congress. How much freedom do you want as a newspaper reporter?" Rock was very disappointed with Lord Beiyan. After buying "The Times", "The Times" has been performing very well, giving Southern Africa and Winston a lot of help.

But at this juncture, the reporters and editors of The Times chose the wrong position, and this mistake cannot be forgiven.

"The Times has never catered to the public. Independent thinking is the root of our survival. If we show obvious inclinations, it will affect the impartiality of The Times." Lord Beiyan seems to have a firm stand , in fact his position is untenable.

"You are wrong. The root of the survival of "The Times" has never been independent thinking, but political needs." Rock directly pointed out that no one should think too much about their own. If Lord Beiyan disagrees with Luo Ke Rock's way of doing business, then Lord Beiyan can also resign, and Rock will not keep him.

Now Roque doesn't have much time to worry about "The Times". The Fifth Army of the Ottoman Empire on the Garibaldi Peninsula is the focus of Roque's current work.

In order to expand the influence of "The Times", Roque is also trying his best. The bosses of other newspapers want to make profits. Roque does not aim at profit. Just, in order to increase the sales of "The Times", Rock set the price of "The Times" at two pennies, which is almost the price of 20 years ago. If there were no subsidies, "The Times" would have closed down long ago up.

Lord Beiyan wanted to speak, but was stopped directly by Rock.

"In any case, it is impossible for newspapers and magazines to be absolutely fair in reporting. The Times is a British newspaper, so The Times has a position. We all know what is happening on the front line. What reporters and editors have to do It’s about reporting what’s happening on the front lines, building the confidence of the people to win the war, and not attacking the country’s Secretary of War and Secretary of the Navy at the height of the world war, which is simply ridiculous!” Roark did not deny freedom to reporters and editors Well, some of the previous "Times" reports also contained private goods, as long as they didn't cause too much impact, Roque would turn a blind eye.

Lord Beiyan finally remained silent. He also knew that the "democracy" and "freedom" claimed by the United Kingdom were jokes. How could there be real democracy and freedom? Newspaper is no exception.

"Find a way to eliminate the impact of bad reports and prevent similar incidents from happening in the future. The legal department will file a lawsuit against Charles Repington. No matter what the reason is, I don't want to see Charles Repington in future newspapers. Name." Rock is going to kill them all, and adults don't count villains?nonexistent.

To put it bluntly, if this incident has bad consequences for Kitchener or Winston, the nine families of Rock and Charles Repington have their own thoughts. Now the British War Department, Kitchener and Winston are Rock's biggest supporter, if they lose the support of Kitchener and Winston, then Rock and the Southern African Expeditionary Force will struggle.

"Lord, please don't do this—" Lord Beiyan begged. He knew that Roque was very angry, but he didn't expect Roque to be so angry.

Angie hurried over with a telegram at this time, and Rock felt even worse after reading it.

The Anzac attack failed, with 500 killed and 4000 wounded, and Goba Heights was still under the control of the Fifth Army.

"Looking at the battle reports on the front line, just as we chatted, 500 people were killed and 4000 people were injured, so how can the years be quiet, it's just that someone is carrying the weight for you." Common sense, under normal circumstances, when the coalition forces report the war situation to the outside world, their own losses will be halved, and the enemy's casualties will be doubled.

Lord Beiyan did not speak, his expression was very complicated, the war did not burn on the land of Britain, so the gentlemen in the mainland of England, especially in London, did not feel the pain of the war, and the casualties of the frontline troops were one by one for them. The cold numbers, they never think about the tragedies of the families behind the numbers.

The commander of the troops guarding the Goba Heights is still Mustafa Kemal. His troops have less than 1000 people left, and there is a serious shortage of ammunition and food.

The Anzac Army invested about one division of troops to attack, limited to the width of the battlefield, and could only invest about one regiment at a time.

Mustafa Kemal's troops withstood several strong attacks by the Anzacs, and the near-ground support aircraft bombed the Goba Heights again, but because the defenders had targeted defenses, the effect of the incendiary bombs was not good. .

While the Anzac suffered heavy losses, the 402nd Division of the sniper reinforcements also suffered heavy losses. The 402nd Division was a force drawn from the Najd Sultanate. Although it was a cavalry division in name, it was actually all infantry.

Like the Southern African Servant Army, the 402nd Division was not equipped with artillery and did not have many machine guns. A unit of the Second Ottoman Army was attacking the 402nd Division's defense line, and the 402nd Division lost nearly 3000 people in one day.

Zanders knew very well that if he could not break through the defense line of the sniper troops, the Fifth Army would be wiped out, which would also be a heavy blow to the Ottoman Empire.

Now both sides are racing against time. The Mediterranean Expeditionary Force wants to annihilate the Fifth Army before the defense line is breached, and Zanders wants to open a channel with the Fifth Army before the Fifth Army is annihilated.

At this critical moment, Prime Minister Asquith announced the dissolution of the cabinet.

(End of this chapter)