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Show GABINET FAILS TO AGREE UPON CONSCRIPTION Coalition Ministry in Great Britain in Danger, Gen eral Election May Be Forced Any Time DIVISION IS NOT ON PARTY LINES Kitchener and Law Dodging the Issue, Lloyd George Insists Upon Keeping Pledge LONDON Dec 28 The Dally Mall understands that David Lloyd George threatens to resign from the cabinet unless Premier Asquith strictly adheres to his pledge to apply compulsion to un married slackers if they fall to present themselves for attostation under Lord Derby s recruiting scheme LONDON Dee. -8 IS a. m. That th proceedings of the Lr t sh cab net ha not been going smoo h 5 Is seen n h fact that after to hours sitting yes lerday (Monday) he counc I was obi g to adjourn until todaj no decis on or conscription ha lng been rea hd and hi discussion ha 1ng re ea ed great d tfer ences of opinion. The Times parliamentary correspo d ents assert that the pos tlon is undenlabb delicate and may become critical today unless handled wltl firmness and de cisloQ The Dally Mall asserts that Andrew Bonar- Law secretary for the colonies, and Lord Kitchener the war minister have not yet made their position clear while A. J Balfour first lord of the ad mlralty resolutely opposes compu alon In which be Is supported by a maloiit) of the ministers. Advocate Compulsion But David Lloyd-George the marquis of Lanedowne Earl Curzon Sir Frederick Smith J Austen Chamberlain, Walter Hume Long and the earl of Salborne ad vocate Immediate compulsion. Hr Lloyd George, the Mall adds, be fore the sitting of tie council made bis position clear to Premier lAeouith In a message Intimating that unless Mr As qulth s pledge to married men be kept In the strictest sense he could not con Unue as a member of the government. The Morning Post, equally with the Times and the Daily Mall an conscrip tlonlst papers, sees the possibility of sev eral cabinet res gnatlons or the other al ternatlve a genera election. The Morning Telegraph and the Chron lcle antl compulsion organs also are ap prehenslve of a crisis or a general elec t on Could Force an Election The CI ronlcle editorial y pro ests against Intriguers and wire pullers who contemplate the desperate and mad ex ped ent of a general election a gamb era plunge which might entail d sastrous consequences and po nts out how by me ely v. thhold ng its assent to the par 1 ament and reg strat on bis, the house of lords can make e ect one unavo dable next month s nee in the absence of the par ament b 1 w hich pro ongs its I fe for e ght.months the present Var ament wou d expi e at the end of January Concerning the people who maka a compar son with America during the civil war the Chronic e argues that Lincoln Lin-coln s action was not a precedent be cause conditions were d fferent Lincoln was d stracted by who esa e desert ons wh e recruit ng was s imulated by ex travagant bounties The Ch onlcle adds Our voluntary army In one year exceeded in number al the men recru ted by the United States government in the four years of the civl war and that without drafts to force : them or bounties to br be them The Times asserts that t e cabinet d f ferences on the quest on of unattested sing e men point to the existence of fun damental dlvergenc es regard ng the method of prosecut ng the war There a e certain e ements says the T mes wh ch cannot wo c together in defln telv and the cabinet seems to have reached the po nt when it must make a v tal dec s on, between one set of op n ons and another The Dally News states t at yeste day s cab net counc 1 a so t ad before It grave prob ems affecting neutral states |