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Show I FIVE MEN ARE TO II COiUCTTHEWAR HO) j' London, Nor. 11. The house for- HIl j) mally agreed to a vote of credit for H7 tj 4000,000,000, ($2,000,000,000) asked for HSl U ty PremIer Asquith. HH j London, Nov. 11. Tho much-dis- Hl' 'M cussed war committee, tho cabinet e '! (' "within a cabinet, which will have ab- Hj '; 19 solute control of all matters relating H IS to the conduct of the war, was for- H! mally announced by Premier Asquith H w, '; in the house ot commons today. It H! j 111 wil1 consist of the following five min- H: 'jj il iBters: Hh m j'r Premier Asquith. H f Arthur Balfour, first lord of the ad- Bii H A mlralty. ffl f f David Lloyd-George, minister of mu- Hl ri nitions. H I '.jj Bonar Law, secretary of the col- HnLjf ; Dnics. Hh Reginald McKenna, chancellor of Dnhltli exchequer. IF i I J In addition to this "big five," Sir Bi !ij'jj Edward Grey, it was recently an- Hjjj 'j i J nounced, will be called in for the dls- Hi 9 cussion of all matters in which for- Kj H I 'j eign relations are involved. Hf jj j Kitchener Not Included. Ki.lH Much speculation has been aroused Nji'll I hy the fact that Lord Kitchener's HI.H UA name is not only included in this list, K iN but no definite statement was made as HI . ! to his future relations with tho com- I I jlj mlttee. Lord Kitchener is still the H j technical minister for war. Premier Asquith is acting in his place during his "temporary" absence. In making the names of the committee com-mittee public. Premier Asquith merely mere-ly said: "It is expected that naval and military mili-tary and diplomatic adviBers will as-, as-, slst the war committee " Mr. Asquith recently stated that the commitee, when appointed, would have full control of war matters except ex-cept in cases in which a change of policy or a new depature Is involved; in such cases the question at issue would be submitted to the full cabinet for decision. The Globe Incident During the course of a discussion on tho Globes newspaper James Mylcs Hogge, member of East Edinburgh, declared de-clared his belief that the statement that Lord Kitchener had resigned was true and that tho seizure of the paper because of publication of the statement state-ment was not justified. Premier Asquith, who immediately replied, said that Mr. Hogge accused him of "a deliberate and inexcusable falsehood" and, to make the mattor quite clear, he declared: "Earl Kitchener never tendered it. Earl KItchner never breathed a word of resignation to either." The decision to send Lord Kitchener Kitchen-er to the near east, the premier added, was taken by the cabinet on Thursday, Thurs-day, November 4. Serious Information which led thp government to take the decision was brought to their knowledge knowl-edge for tho first time on Wednesday. In the interests of public life, he pro-, tested against the charge that tho king was being directed against the head of the government as likely, If believed, to do Incalculable harm to the country throughout the world. Repudiates Charge. He repudiated the charge that the Globe had been singled out for special treatment. Mr. Hogge and William M. R. Pringle, members for northwest north-west Lancaster, however, insisted that other pajiers which were equally guilty had not heen proceeded against. Sir John Simon, home secretary, pointed out that the Globe was in an entirely different position from the other papers in that It had ignored the warning of the press bureau on Thursday night In the form of a request re-quest made to all the papers that no-reference no-reference should be made to Earl Kitchener's movements until further notice. Tho next day the Globe, and the Globe alone, published the statement that Earl Kitchener had resigned because be-cause he had quarreled with his colleagues. col-leagues. When a denial was issued, tho Globe repeated the statement, thus saying In effect that the government was lying. Under the circumstances it was the bounden duty of the government gov-ernment to prevent further circulation pf the lie in the most summary nnd direct way. |
