Cabinet-breaking

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 159, 5 January 1914, Page 5

Cabinet-breaking

. ICONOCLASTIC LLOYD GEORGE. LEADERSHIP OF THE RADICALS. OPPOSITION TO MR. CHURCHILL. THE ARMAMENTS QUESTION. l By Oable—Press Association—Copyright Received 4, 5.5 p.m. 1 c London, January 3. Unionist newspapers arc making capi- . tal out of Mr. Lloyd George's interview with a friend, which was reported by the Daily Chronicle (Liberal) by p 6l- ■ mission. They declare that Mr. Lloyd George has assumed the leadership of . the Radicals, who are making a dead set against Mr. Churchill's naval.policy. n The question whetbex Mr. Churchill's 0 followers will secede from the Unionists and form a new party is widely v discussed. u The Standard asks if Mr. Lloyd e George is deliberately precipitating a e break-up of the Cabinet oyer the arma- g u&rts question, preferring this to a col- a lapse later in consequence of the Cafcinet's failure regarding tire Irish ques- s tion. v The Daily Telegraph asks what is 3!r ] ; « ' Lloyd George's goal, what situation he J e , is engineering, whether he is working f with or against Mr Churchill, and t whether Mr Asquith regards the new t \ development with sympathy or external r I "*"*Pteoval. He has hitherto been true to t i, LibenuTmperialism, but he must know that the triumph of Brunnerism means I a reeling Mow to national security. Mr s Lloyd George's declaration sows dis- 1 trust broadcast where there was confi- 1 deuce ibefore. "' f CONSTERNATION IN FRANCE. * ' ( " GERMANY'S IHANGE OF POLICY. i Received 4, 5.5 p.m. j Paris, January 3. Mr Lloyd George's statements have •aused consternation in France. The ■ewspapers resent what they describe »s his complaisant reference to Germany's concenttating her energy on her army • instead of on her navy, as disconcerting to the friends of the Entente Cordiale. The newspaper Le Temps emphasises tbat France's enormous expenditure is ] the result of Germany's change of policy. It adds that if France is ultimately, compelled to choose between the i arnty and navy—the thing that Mr 1 Lloyd George' apparently considers in- ' evitable for all nations of the Continent ' .—iv Mediterranean situation will be ' thereby created that will be anything ' but satisfactory to England. ANGLO-GERMAN .MERELY "NOT BAD-" Received i, 5.5 p.m. r- Berlin, January 3. The Nachrichten says that it is posi- \ tiroly ridiclilous to talk of infinitely |fiore friendly relations between England Tmd Germany. At present the relation- - ship of England and Germany is not bad. That is all that can be said. CHANCELLOR'S STATEMENT GUARDED. MAY BE ONLY A RUSE. Received 5, 12.50 a.m. London, January 4. Mr Lloyd George is holiday-making at Algiers. Mr L. G. Ohiozza Money, Liberal member for Northamptonshire Ji.isl, in a letter to the press, lrgrets that Sir John Bruiner has advised the adoption of a course which, if followed for a few year?, will give Germany the command of, the sea. The Olwervcr questions whether Mr Llovd George's utterances mean all that his excited friends imagine. The Chancellor's statement, when examined, is a »uarded one, despite its extreme imprudence. It. apears to be a ruse to keep the -forties of Radicalism and Labor together in view of the next elections. The .real interest in his declarations lies in ri'ihe fact that if Mi' Lloyd George is to definitely lead-a Radical-Socialist comwith a policy destructive lo the sea power of the Empire, there will be need of a new national party to combat the peril.