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Show COMMONS DECIDES AWINpRY CONFIDENCE SHOWN IN PREMIER BY REJECTION OF ASQUITH'S PROBE PLAN. Lloyd George Wins Decisive Victory and Coalition Cabinet Is Retained in Full Power, Charges of General Maurice Being Refuted. London. The Lloyd George ministry won a notable victory in the house of commons on May 9. By a vote of 203 to 106 the house voted down a motion introduced by former Premier Asquith providing for the appointment of a special committee to investigate charges made by Major General Frederick Fred-erick B. Maurice, recently relieved of his post of chief director of military operations at the war office. Stirred by the imminence of a cabinet cabi-net crisis, the people of London crowded the public galleries Ions be fore the debate opened. The diplomatic diplo-matic and peers' galleries also were throngeu. Immediately after the introduction of Mr. Asquith's motion, the premier took the floor and spoke in defense of the government. He refuted the charges of General Maurice and declared de-clared that statements made in his recent re-cent speen, to which Maurice's charges referred, were made on information infor-mation received from General Maurice's Mau-rice's department of the war office. He showed also by documentary evidence evi-dence that the extension of the British Brit-ish line was made because of pressure exerted by France, and that the decision de-cision was taken on the advice of the military authorities, in agreement with Field Marshal Haig, the war cabinet having interfered Jn no way in the matter, although it approved of the dispositions. |