IMPERIAL POLITICS.
I CABINET AFFAIRS. PAPER HINTS AT DISUNION. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.J London, January 20. The Daily Telegraph states that there is a grave crisis in the Cabinet over the naval policy. The Cabinet discusses the situation on Thursday. The paper declares that a majority of the .Ministers agree with Mr LloydGeorge in opposing Mr Churchill's estimates. The relations between the latter and the Chancellor arc so strained that the resignation of one or the other is regarded as possible. If Mr Churchill is defeated, the whole Hoard of Admiralty threaten to resign.
The Telegraph adds that the majority of the Cabinet are intent on abandoning even the sixty per cent, standard.
Mr Lloyd-George's conversation, which was first regarded as impulsive, 'is now viewed as a carefullyplanned revolt.
"SURMISE AND GOSSIP."
(Received 8.45 a.m.)
London, January 20
Mr Winston Churchill announces that the newspaper statements concerning the Cabinet are based merely on surmise and gossio and should be uniformly distrusted. He denies that
the Board of Admiralty has expressed its intention to resign.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 18, 21 January 1914, Page 5
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176IMPERIAL POLITICS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 18, 21 January 1914, Page 5
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