HAS THE ASQUITH POLICY FAILED

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2762, 4 May 1916, Page 5

HAS THE ASQUITH POLICY FAILED

UNWIELDY ADMINISTRATION ' CRITICISED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, May 2. Tho public in Britain and France aro cagorly awaiting the announcement of the Government's policy to-day. The general opinion is summed up 'by the .Paris "Temps," which says that Mr. Asquitli's Government has too little confidence, foresight, and moral force. The British people in Britain to-day is in advance of its leaders.

Leading articles and correspondence in the British newspapers generally insist that it is significant that the Dublin riots and tiio Military Service Bill fiasco should havo come in a singio week, and attribute tho disasters to the unwieldy Cabinet. It should be reduced to a small body, of strong men not hampered by executive, offices. Some express the opinion that men who are not politicians should be introduced, as the country is distrustful of government by the little knot_ of Front i Benc'ii politicians who distribute offices among themselves. A few extremists tentatively support Mr. Lloyd George, Sir Edward Carson, and Lord Milner as a Cabinet as an alternative to Mr. Asquith's body. Mr. Warwick Brooke, M.l\, suggests that Mr. W. M. Hughes would be willing to join the Cabinet if a, sufficiently honourable position was offered. It would be easy to find him a seat. The "Daily News" expects the Government to waste no more time in formulating further proposals, and to announce that tho Compulsion Bili will be introduced this week without any suspensory clause, thus immediately bringing in all unattested married men: Mr. Henderson, Mr. Roberts, and Mr. Bruce (the Lalbour members of the Government) have assented to the policy which many members of the Labou? Party, approve.

WORKERS'NATIONAL LEAGUE MANIFESTO i London, May 2. The British Workers' National League has issued a spirited manifesto, in 'which Messrs. W. Crooks, M.P., John Hodge, M.P. (secretary of tho British Steel Smelters' Mill, Iron, and Tinplate Workers' Association), Mr. C. B.' Stanton, M.P., Mr. Stephen Walsh, M.P., Mr. H. 6. Wells, and others, appeal to capitalists and workers "to follow tha imperishable example of overseas Britons, and hasten to arms in a time never so critical for tho Motherland. The supreme, vital hour calls for ungrudging service of all her children. Let us not appeal in vain."