Item ROBERTSON, WR 7/5/29 - Letter from General Sir Beauchamp Duff to Robertson, 21 Jul 1916, on subjects including military medicine in Mesopotamia

Letter to Robertson from Gen Sir Beauchamp Duff, Commander in Chief, India, on the Vincent Commission report upon medical arrangements in Mesopotamia, and Duff's complaints concerning its methods of collecting information; the refusal of the Rt Hon Herbert Henry Asquith, Prime Minister, to allow the Mesopotamian papers to be made public for reasons of military security; the proposed takeover of the control of military operations in India and the surrounding countries by the War Office; military requirements in the event of two divisions of troops being sent to India for the protection of the North-West Frontier; Duff's anxieties regarding supply lines to the troops and levies on the North West Frontier, and the need to increase the number of troops there in case of a Turkish attack through Afghanistan. 6pp.