BRITISH CABINET MINISTERS DIVIDED

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2655, 29 December 1915, Page 5

BRITISH CABINET MINISTERS DIVIDED

•: FORCING A GENERAL ELECTION HUNS-URGE PROMPT ACTION . AT SALONIKA FIGHTING IN MESOPOTAMIA . t ' TURKS MAKE A FIERCE ATTACK / ON A FORT■ 'A dearth of news from some of the war areas to-day is accounted for.by the interriiptioli of communications resulting from a great storm in England, which has done a good deal of damage, both ashore and at sea. .No very sensational development is reported"in the main or sub- . sidiary treatres, and interest centres at the moment rather in stories ef dissension in the Imperial Cabinet on the subject of recruiting policy. Compulsioriist Ministers and those who oppost). compulsion arc alleged to be gravely at issue, but there is some doubt as to the authority of these reports, more especially as Mr. Asquith is announced to make a statement shortly on the result of Lord Derby's campaign. A section of the Cabinet which favours compulsion is said to be working for an appeal to the country, but on the other hand, Mr. Bonar Law, a strong , advocate of compulsion, is quoted as declaring that a general election is unthinkable.' No move has yet been made by the enemy towards attacking the Allies at Salonika, and it is stated that tho Bulgarians are fortifying a line withdrawn some miles from the Greek frontier. General Castelnau is quoted as stating that Iris only fear is that the enemy may not attack' Salonika. The British lorces at Kut-el-Amara, in Mesopotamia, have* repelled a powerful Turkish attack, inflicting much heavier losses than they suffered.