News From England

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 297, 25 May 1915, Page 5

News From England

CHURCHILL FOR THE FRONT. RETIREMENT FROM POLITICS. SOME SUGGESTED CHANGES. Received May 25, 1.25 a.m. London, May 2* Though Mr. Churchill was formally farewelled by Admiralty officials, he still controls naval affairs with the assistance of Mr. Arthur Wilson and ViceAdmiral Sir Frederick Hamilton. Mr. Churchill refuses to make a public statement in regard to his position. He may give up politics for the present, and. join a regiment at the front. The Liberals continue to make Mr. Churchill a gcapegrace for the wreck of the Cabinet. Mr. Asquith and Mr. Lloyd George will decide on Monday morning if a coalition is essential. Lord Fisher is now in Scotland. If Lord Fisher does not retain his post, Sir Henry Bradwardine Jackson is likely to succeed him. He has been directing the colonial operations of the Admiralty. ■Lord Lansdownc will probably be Lord President of the Council. >. Sir Edward Carson is the probable At-torney-General. Sir John Simon has declined the Lord Chancellorship, as he pref-rs a political position in the House of Commons. The provincial newspapers unanimously denounce the Times's and Daily Mail's attacks on Lord Kitchener.

THE DAILY MAIL ATTACK. LORD NORTHCLIFFE MUCH ABUSED. PUBLIC DEFEND LORD KITCHENER. Received May 24, 11.30 p.m. London, May 24. Lord Northcliffe is the most 'abused man in England. Yesterday's leading article in the Daily Mail condemning Xord Kitchener caused an immense furore, and there was a public demonstration at the Stock Exchange against it. The greater number of the responsible journals rallied to the side of Lord Kitchener, and some of those that criticised him in the past now recall his good services and hunt through the die tionary for adjectives to denounce Lord Northcliffe. Some demand his head on a charger. As far as can be judged, the attacks have had the effect of sending Lord Kitchener's stock higher than ever. His retention in the Cabinet is regarded as certain. ' The Daily Mail, replying to the attacks, says: "The fusilade of newspaper Bhrapnel can damage us no more than Kitchener's shrapnel in Flanders damages the German, trenches."

THE NATIONAL CABINET. A GRAVE STATE OF AFFAIRS. GENERAL ITEMS. London, May 23. Son*? newspapers forecast that the Home Secretary will be Mr. McKenna; Colonial Secretary, Mr. Chamberlain; Secretary for War, Lord Kitchener; Minister of Munitions, Mr. Bonar Law; Secretary for India, Mr. Churchill; Minister for Works, Lord Selborne; Attor-ney-General, Mr. Smith. Sir George Reid, interviewed, rejoiced at the prospect of a truly national Cabi-1 net. If it was due to friction, all he cdVld say was "God bles* friction." He considered a national Cabinet was the most practical move since the war began, in order to develop the resources to the 'fullest limit. He concluded that the wav 'in which the Opposition parties in all the Parliaments of the Empire supported the respective Governments in furthering military activities was on the same .Ejjh plane of patriotism as that shown by the Parliament of the Motherland. The Bight Hon. James Lowther, Speaker of the House of Commons, in a Bpeech at Penrith, said that everyone in Germany was doing his share, but the same could not be said of the British people. The Government, which so far ad the world knew was carrying on the war efficiently and successfully, had suddenly found it necessary to reorganise themselves. Even now the gravity of the situation was not revealed to the public. The London County Council 'las instructed the tramway strikers eligible lor military or naval service to return their uniforms and badges, and is appointing men above military age as mo--tonnen and conductors for the period of the war. Lacey, a German naturalised in Hull, las handed the Mayor £2OO for the master and crew of any Yorkshire vessel sinking a German submarine.