Cika wannan jumla: Ba da daɗewa ba bayan an cire Robertson,
Harin Bajamushe na bazara na 21 ga Maris 1918 ya kusan kawo mummunan rauni ga rundunar sojojin Hubert Gough ta Biyar. Tare da dakarun Birtaniya har yanzu suna cikin matsin lamba a watan Afrilu, dalilan da ke kusa da rikici ya zama batun batun siyasa. Lloyd George ya ji cewa Field Marshal Haig ya ɓata ƙarfin ƙarfin Birtaniya don yin amfani da shi a cikin hare-haren da ya yi na 1916-1917, yayin da sojojin Birtaniya da 'yan siyasa da' yan jarida suka ji, ba tare da dalili ba, cewa Gwamnatin ta bar BEF ba tare da maza ba (John Grigg ya yi jayayya cewa ya yi daidai da yin haka, kamar yadda Haig ya yi niyyar sake dawowa da hare-haren a farkon 1918). Lloyd George ya nakalto lambobin War Office a cikin jawabi a cikin House of Commons a ranar 9 ga Afrilu 1918, yana mai cewa BEF ya fi karfi a ranar 1 ga Janairu 1918 fiye da shekara guda da ta gabata (ranar da Jamus ta kai hari a watan Maris na iya zama mafi kyau kwatanta fiye da Janairu, a ra'ayin John Grigg). Lloyd George ya kuma ce akwai rukunin "farar fata" guda ɗaya a Mesopotamiya da uku a Masar da Falasdinu, sauran rukunin a cikin waɗannan wuraren wasan kwaikwayon sune rukunin Indiya da ke ƙunshe da ƙaramin adadin sojojin Burtaniya.