BRITISH POLITICS.

Taihape Daily Times, 19 November 1917, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

POLITICAL CRISIS. MOST DELICATE POSITION. LONDON, Nov 17. Newspapers appeal to the House of .Commons to sink personal enmities and deal wisely and deliberately with the most delicate situation that has arisen since the war. With the fullest appreciation of the extreme danger threatened by the Italian it is expected that Mr Asquith, in opening the debate on Holiday, will speak with the greatest caution ana in a moderate tone, but it is feared a crisis will develop inevitably. The “Daily News” says democracy has been unseated and nomocracy, whose dictator is NorthclhTe, is in power. AIR BOARD RESIGNATION. LONDON, Nov 17.

Lord Cowdray is resigning from the Air Board. He protests that a letter written by Lord Northcliffe was his first intimation that Mr Lloyd George was seeking a successor. A court of inquiry was opened into the case in which Mr Stanley Wilson narrated carrying four bags from Athens. A German submarine stopped the vessel. He threw one bag overboard which floated but darkness intervened and it was not noticed. An American lady took another bag, saying that no German or Austrian dare enter the cabin of an American woman This reached London safely. When in America Wilson heard that the Austrian authorities read reports in English papers of the floating bag and sent a submarine, which found the bag. There were two other bags aboard the steamer which were not discovered by the Germans, and which eventually reached London.

AIR MINISTER RESIGNS. ALLEDGED UNFAIR TREATMENT., -~, - Received 9.20 r? IX { | v | t I HONDO# NO I*- IS. Lord“-Gowdray,ill' a letter to? Mr Lloyd George, says the publication of the letter wherein Lord Northcliffe refused Mr Lloyd George’s offer to become Air Minister, was the first intimation I received. You desire a change consequently you cannot be surprised to receive my resignation. He adds when Lloyd George appoint-, ed him the former explained the Air Ministry was to be formed on a status equal to the Admiralty and ,the War He advised him that dif-' Acuities in co-ordinating the naval and military air services had also increased. The supply of aircraft demanded immediate attention. He submitted a solution .of the problems" within four weeks of his appointment and embodied them in the Air Service Bill ,which provides for what was desired. He claims that since his ap- 1 pointment the arms and air forces had increased three-fold.