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Show oo- CLAIM KITCHENER HAS BLUNDERED National Member of Parliament Parlia-ment Attacks Head of the Army. London, Nov. 11, G15 p, m. Ar-thur Ar-thur Lynch, Nationalist, today led in an attack against Lord Kitchener, who, he said, had blundered in not moving to the defense of Liege, again on the question of munitions, and once again in Serbia. "The blunder in the Dardanelles," he' added, "was at least a blunder of a man who meant to do something." He contended that the war was being' be-ing' conducted with signal incompetency incom-petency and that unless there was a change the country was moving straight to disaster He would sweep away 70 per cent of the higher British Brit-ish commanders, beginning with Field Marshal French, who had been in command fifteen months and had "made no progress." The allies broke through the German Ger-man lines recently, but in the superior superi-or command decision was wanting to take full advantage of the moral victory. The government, he declared, had no plan of campaign. The idea of a successful attrition was absurd. Tho war must be won in the field. The men were good and munitions were there. It was leadership and direction which wore lacking. After several members hnd spoken in various aspects of the war, Arthur ; A. Ponsonby, Liberal, closing the debate de-bate for the critics of the govern- ment, said that while tho situation ' was not so bad as it was painted, . there was a limit to endurance, and . that the cnancellor of the exchequer was doing his best. Sir Edward Grey, secretary for foreign for-eign affairs, assured the house that if the government had not done as much as it should have liked for Serbia, Ser-bia, it had not been from any want of good will. Tho French and British Brit-ish governments had offered to send 150,000 troops to Saloniki to enable Greece to fulfill her treaty obligations obliga-tions to Serbia. They had sent the men who were available at once and had begun to make preparations for the transport of troops from other places, but these could not be obtained ob-tained without due regard for the military exigencies. Then Greece changed her mind. After consultation with France, however, it was decided to continue the dispatch of troops to Saloniki. It was due only to the limitations imposed im-posed by thc war that more had not been sent. The house formally agTeed to a voto of 400.000,000 pounds ($2,000.-000.000) ($2,000.-000.000) asked for by Premier Asquith. As-quith. Premier Makes Denial. During the course of a discussion on the suspension of the Globe newspaper, news-paper, James Myles Hogge, member for East Edinburgh, declared his belief be-lief that the statement that Lord Kitchener had resigned, was true.and that the seizure of the paper was 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 matter quite clear, he declared: "Earl Kitchener never tendered his resignation either to the king or myself, my-self, the only two persons to whom he could have tendered It. Earl Kitchener never breathed a word of resignation to either' The decision to send Lord Kitchener Kitchen-er to thc near east, thc nromiem add ed, was taken by the cabinet on Thursday, November 4. Serious information in-formation which led tho government to take the decision was brought to their knowledge for the first time on Wednesday. In the interests of public life, he protested against thc charges that the king was being directed di-rected against tho head of the government gov-ernment as likely, if believed, to do incalculable harm to the country throughout the world. He repudiated the charge that the Globe had been singled out for special treatment. Mr. Hogge and William al. IL Pringle, members for northwest Lanarkshire, however, insisted that other papers which were equally guilty, had not been 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 paners that no reference should be made to Earl Kitchener's movements until further notice. The next day the Globe, and the Globe alone, published the statement that Earl Kitchener had resigned because be-cause he had quarreled with his col-eagues. col-eagues. When a denial was issued, the Globe repeated the statement, thus saying in effect that the government govern-ment was lying under the circumstances circum-stances it was the bounden duty of the government to prevent further statements. Makes Appointment. , ,? mini8ter f munitions, it 'is officially of-ficially announced, has appointed Lord Murray of Ellbank, to act temporarily tem-porarily In the honorary capacity of director of recruiting for munitions wjrks The appointment Is made ?fVf ,Eurpo?.e of Sne executive effect to the pohcy of the administration administra-tion of munitions with regard to securing se-curing tho most offective and econ- ? rfV8.euft.mun,UonB factories and the distribution of skilled and unskilled un-skilled labor, both malo and female among them. ".f |