Show ASOUITH WILL WAR jr 0 1 PREMIER SPRINGS to 1 PA parliament wa WHEN hel HE aa coe ul dumea TASK OK 01 WAR OFFICE il sud oth will resign from the its house at thi r critical stage and appeal for re en election government nominally d without prime Mi minister nitter p pa 1 london premier asquith spruille genellia gen UlliA surprise on oil tho tile h house C use lk i 0 on monday whon when after all the many 1 so lations of tho the government crisis which had been proposed and discussed be announced a decision which illch non none rt tho the prophets has hns expected or om eye tho the primo prime minister himself as sume the burden of tho the war office li LL addition to his other and almost crushing duties jio ife will resign from the house at this critical stage when the second reading of the home 11 0 me ru IL bill is about to bo be taken up and will appeal for redaction re to his constan ants in east fifo fife scotland within a few days field marshal air sir john french chief of tho the imperial staff and sir john ewart adjutant general do dined to withdraw their resignation resignations in spite of iho 1110 army order issued oa oil friday which viscount haldane clet 1 orly framed as a platform on which the generals might stand with cou con sis als tency and honor it thus became impossible for col onel J E fl 11 seely chomas who was con consigner sIgne with them of assurances to general Cic cough gough that the army would mould not b ber used to suppress the ulster tion to home rule to retain the secre tary ship of war his ills resignation therefore was accepted after be he had been for some days under ire fire from the newspapers of hlo his own party who insisted that ho he must go viscount morley of blackburn lord president of the tile council who ubo was partner with ith colonel seely in drafting the offending paragraphs of the document stands in the same position and his withdrawal from office Is ex pecked the present situation Is remarkable in that the government will bo be nominally without a primo prime minister andi nominally 10 without a leader in the house until the b bye e election Is held in east fife the writ for the the election elect loa S must give eight avs notice the only practical loss to the party a in the meantime will be the withdrawal of mr nir ficq noice from the debates ho he will preside over oer cabinet meetings and direct maneu j ers in the huist of commons from an in unofficial seat while reginald me ile konna kenna the home secretary and win ston churchill first lord of tha admiralty will mill understudy litin as house leader |