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Show oo- NO SOLUTION OF ENGLISH PROBLEM Chief of General Staff and Adjutant Ad-jutant General Persist in Aggressive Attitude. SEELY WILL LEAVE Secretary of War May Be Transferred to Some Other Field of Activity. I London. March 28. No solution had been found up to a late hour today of the situation caused by the resignations resigna-tions of Field Marshal Sir John French and Adjutant General Sir John Ewart from their positions at the head of the British army. The cabinet, however, was still hopeful that its difficulties would be overcome before it again meets the House of Commons on Monday. , .' Should the chief of the" general staff and. the adjutant general to the for- 8 persrsiria tlrelr-atritu i i fclsfajan-. erally thought that Colonel John S. Seely, secretary of state for war, will leave the cabinet. In case the government should be able to placate the field marshal and the adjutant general, the transfer, of Colonel Seely to some other field of activity probably will satisfy the Liberal Lib-eral and Labor malcontents. Army Opposes Coercion of Ulster. In the meantime the opposition of the army to employment in the coercion coer-cion of Ulster Is vouched for by no less an authority than Sir Edward Richard Russell, a staunch supporter of the government, who in a signed article in the Liverpool Post, says today: "It is a positive fact that when he visited the war office early this week, Field Marshal Lord Roberts had in his pocket a list of nearly 900 officers offi-cers of the army who are ready to send In their papers." The members of the cabinet separated separa-ted today for the week-end and most of them have gone on visits to various parts of the country. |