At the War Office a conference, lasting for one and three-quarter hours, has taken place between a dozen generals of the more important divisional commands and ...
Article : 149 wordsHe asked the Government to tell what really happened On the fateful day when Gen. Paget met Col. Seely and some of His colleagues in London? Why Gen. ...
Article : 109 wordsCol. Seely, speaking from the corner of the third bench above the gangway, made a personal statement. There was. he said, no difference of opinion between himself ...
Article : 129 wordsThe District Conciliation Board Committee on (Saturday arrived at a settlement of the South Yorkshire coal industry dispute, provided that the men's notices to ...
Article : 62 wordsIn a speech- at Cambridge on Saturday night Mr. Harold Spender, the well-known journalist and Liberal politician, said he believed the German Government had kept ...
Article : 65 wordsMr. F. E. Smith, K.C., one of the most prominent members of the Unionist Party, speaking before the Junior Impenial League, said a supreme ...
Article : 88 wordsField-Marshal Lord Roberts said baseless assertions had been made that the army was implicated in a political conspiracy. There had been also equally wild and ...
Article : 151 wordsThe chief railway companies have appointed a committee to meet a committee from the executive of the National Union of Railway men and discuss employment ...
Article : 229 wordsThe House was startled by Mr. Asquith's dramatic decision. The Prime Minister indicated that he would hold the position of Secretary of ...
Article : 71 wordsThe second battle squadron of the Home Fleet has been ordered to Bantry Bay, in pursuance of the Admiralty orders issued early this month. There is therefore no ...
Article : 41 wordsWhen Mr. Asquith left the Chamber the Liberals, Labourites, and Irish Nationalists rose and cheered him enthusiastically. ...
Article : 21 wordsField-Marshal Sir John French (First Military Member of the Army Council) and Gen. Sir J. S. Ewart (Second Military Member) resigned their positions owing to ...
Article : 80 wordsMr. Asquith. in addition t-o being Prims Minister, fills the portfolio of First Lord of the Treasury, an office which commands a salary of £5,000. The remuneration for ...
Article : 66 wordsIt is stated to-day that the army officers who have remaned their commissions as an outcome of the Ulster crisis have been deprived of their pensions. ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Lord Chancellor (Viscount Haldine), formerly Secretary of State for War, agreed that it was wrong to bring the army into politics. No more splendid ...
Article : 195 wordsThe resignations were not accepted. The Lord Chancellor (Viscount Haldanel, formerly Secret my of State for War. drafted an explanatory document, which he ...
Article : 44 wordsOn the motion Tor the third reading of the Consolidated Fund Bill, the Army crisis was further discussed. Mr. F. E. Smith, K.C. (Unionist ...
Article : 79 wordsLords Chelmsford and Sydenham, formerly Australian State Governors, in an open letter, point out that civil war and the consequent destruction of the army ...
Article : 57 wordsDuring the course of an interview to-day shortly after his anneal from New Zealand, Earl Grey said:—"Ulster has a larger population than four out of the six ...
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Advertising : 656 wordsIn reply to the advice tendered at Blackburn by the Attorney. General (Sir John Simon), in favour of democratizing the army, Lord Esher (President of the ...
Article : 119 wordsMr. Churchill said Sir Edward Careson had raised a rebellion which was greater than the police could cope with. Opposition leaders were striving to prevent the ...
Article : 36 wordsThe announcement is made that Col. A. Sprot will oppose Mr. Asquith for East Fife, in the Unionist interests. On the occasion of the general election in ...
Article : 50 wordsReferring to Gen. Sir Arthur Paget's anxiety in regard to the movement of troops, the First Lord of the Admiralty said Gen. Paget had assured the ...
Article : 121 wordsIt has been suggested that Lieut-.Gen. Sir James Monerieff Grierson and Gen. Sir Jan Hamilton shall be the successor of FieldMarshal French and Lient.-Gen. Ewart. ...
Article : 46 wordsNo request has reached Brig-Gen. Gough to return his written guarantee. which he received from the Minuter for War and Sir John French, and which lie deposited in ...
Article : 37 wordsWith a view to obviating any recurrence of misunderstanding. the Army Council has issued a new army order, which provides that no officers or soldiers will in ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Union Defence Fund now amounts to £101,000. ...
Article : 11 wordsThe Daily Chronicle (Liberal) remarks that the action of His Majesty the King in the present crisis is thoroughly constitutional. The King has sought to restrain ...
Article : 65 wordsMr. Bonar Law denied the charge. If officers had been influenced, it was by Mr. Churchill's speech at Bradford. Ministers had. insinuated that blame rested with ...
Article : 71 wordsA number of Maxim guns, packed in 20 tea chests, have been landed at Belfast. The authorities' search for the guns has proved futile. ...
Article : 28 wordsMr. Bonar Law remarked that it seemed that here was nothing in the new older which was not already implied in the existing army regulations. The issue of the ...
Article : 46 wordsOrangemen throughout Canada are adopting resolutions pledging themselves to oppose any grant from the Dominion Government in aid of the British Navy until the ...
Article : 43 wordsOn Saturday a sensational incident often r red in Belfast. A crowd of Nationalists attacked three Ulster volunteers on Carrick Hill, which is in the Nationalist ...
Article : 52 wordsMr. Long, one of the Unionist Party leaders, has Riven notice in the House of Commons of a motion in favour of the rejection of the Home Pule Bill. ...
Article : 37 wordsLetters from officers/in Ireland show that the King's name was used freely during the questioning of infantry officers. They were informed that it was the King's ...
Article : 89 wordsSneaking before the Dublin Corinthian Club, in the presence of a large number of military officers, in February, Sir Arthur Paget (commander of the forces in ...
Article : 96 wordsIn the House of Lords, in a series of replies to questions, the Lord President of the Council (Viscount Morley) stated that Gen. Sir Arthur Paget had not ...
Article : 84 wordsSo soon as the Legislative Assembly met this afternoon Mr. David Storey asked the Premier whether it were a fact that he had sent a cablegram to Mr. John Redmond, as ...
Article : 328 wordsThe Attorney-General (Sir J. A. Simon) speaking at Blackburn, emphatically denied that there was a Ministerial plot to attack Ulster. He remarked that he was present ...
Article : 99 wordsA fierce tempest has been raging off the French coast of Brittany, and a number of fishing vessels, with their crews, have been lost. ...
Article : 91 wordsLord Morley related how that he had remained after Cabinet dispersed on Monday. Col. Seely showed him his proposed paragraphs. He did not perceive then, ...
Article : 132 wordsMr. Asquith, speaking in the Commons. emphasized the fadt, that Field-Marshal French and Lieut.Gen. Ewart had desired to resign, not because they differed from ...
Article : 139 wordsDuring a fierce storm which raged last Week off the coast of Brittany the Cbilian steamer Maipo had a severe experience. The vessel managed to weather the g— ...
Article : 189 wordsThe Earl of Selborne thought that the Prime Minister's explanations were incompatible with established faots. He was glad Mr. Asquith was going to the War ...
Article : 132 wordsOn Saturday Mr. Lloyd George handed to a deputation of Young Liberals the following message:—"Democracy is on trial for its life. The Government has ...
Article : 83 wordsMr. Asquith then announced hie retirement in order to Beck the authority of his constituents in East Fife for the change of portfolios. ...
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Observer (Adelaide, SA : 1905 - 1931), Sat 4 Apr 1914, Page 40
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