Show A S Q WILL TAKE WAR PREMIER SPRINGS SURPRISE ON parliament WHEN HE AS tack TASK OF WAR OFFICE will resign from the house at this critical stage and appeal for re election government nominally without prime minister london premier aisquith sprung a genuine surprise on tile the house on monday Xon day when after all tile the many so BO lations of the government crisis which had been proposed and discussed ho he announced ed a 0 decision dec lalon which none iloilo of r the prophets has expected or oven even suggested tug wig the prime minister himself will as io urtle the burden of the war office in addition to ills his other and almost crushing duties ile iio will resign from the house at ata this thin critical stage when the second reading oi of the home rule bill 1111 is about to be taken up and will appeal for reelection election re to his const constituents itil in east bast PIN fife scotland within a few days field Al marshal arshal sir john french chief of the iho imperial stair and sir john ewart adjutant general declined to withdraw their resignations la in belte of the army order issued on friday which viscount Il aldano cleverly framed as a platform on which tho tha generals might stand with consistency sis sla tency and honor it thus became impossible for colonel 3 E H D seely beely who was consignor consigner with them of assurances to general gough dough that the army would not be used to suppress tho the ulster opposition to home rule to retain tho the tary ship of war ills hla resignation therefore was accepted after lie he had been for some days under tire ire from the newspapers of his own party who Ins insisted fated that ilia t lie must go viscount morley of Dlack blackburn burn lord president of tile tho council who was partner with colonel seely in iii drafting the offending paragraphs of the document stands in tho the same position and his withdrawal from office Is expected the present situation la Is remarkable in that the government will be nominally without a prime minister and iro nominally without a leader in tho the house until the bye election la Is laid held iu in east fifo fife the writ for the election must give eight days notice the he only practical loss to the party in the me meantime meant antimo will bo be the withdrawal of mr air volca voice from the debates ho will preside over cabinet meetings and direct nia maneuvers neuv la in the house of commons from an ail unofficial seat beat while reginald mckenna lc the homo home secretary and win eton churchill first lord of the admiralty will understudy him as house leader |