The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-28
KING GEORGE KNOWS
 HE BRITISH NAVY Politicians Disagree in Re-
 gard to WOmen's Rights
 ASQUITH'S ATTITUDE
Table Showing How the Cabinet Is Divided and Also Conservative Party-Lloyd-George Is
 Versatile Man
By PAUL LAMBETH

By PAUL LAMBETH London, January 27.-(specia1)- liking
 George knows the British navy better
 than any British King has known it ex-
 cept perhaps William ", the other sailor
 king. He was brought up in the navy and
 loves it.
 Even his majesty, however, must have
 been surprised at the mighty power of
 his war fleet as he has seen it on his re-
 turn from India.
 By the time the Medina with the royal
 party aboard reaches Spthead, a week
 from tomorrow, he will have been greeted
 by practically the whole effective strength 1 of Great Britain's naval forces, Tor the homeward journey has been practically continuous naval reception for the Moh-
 arch of the Seven Seas.
 The East Indies squadron paid tribute to their majesties as they left Bombay and escorted the Royal squadron part of the way across the Indian ocean. At Port l Said a detachment of the Mediterranean
 meets the home corners
 At Malta their majesties will be sauted | by practically all the ships of the Med-
 iterranean command. The. proposed visit | to the inland fortress on the outward l tourney had to be abandoned on account | of sickness there, and the inhabitants are | anticipating the arrival of the sovereign
 and his consort with all the enthusiasm | which deferred pleasure creates. l At Gibraltar the honors will fall to the new commander of the Atlantic fleet, Vice l Admiral Cecil Burney, who has recently | hoisted his flag in the battleship Prince of l Wales in succession to Vice Admiral Sir | John Jellico.
 | After their majesties pass Gibraltar they will receive the most impressive naval l welcome that has ever been planned. Or l ders have been issued for the vessels of the second division of the home feet un- der the command of the vice admiral, Sir John R. Jelllcoe, with Rear Admiral Her l berv King Hall and Sir George Warren 1 der Sr, to meet the Medina at the en- trance to the English channel and escort | their maiestes to the confines of Spit
 head, which will be reached on the night | of February f.
 No portion of the British fleet could
 more dttngly perform this duty as the l second division includes some of the latest I Dreadnaughts, including one battleship. | indeed, which has been so recently com pleted that the King has not had an op- portunity of seeing her. At Spithead the balance Of the fleet in
 the home waters will be ready to receive |
 | One of the most curious phenomena in home affairs at present is the divergence of opinion among leading politicians on 1 the question of women's suffrage. With regard to cabinet, the majority | for giving votes to women is so tsrons that the prime minister has decided to leave the matter to the discretion of the house of commons, though not concealinS | his own repugnance to the proposal. The position of the government was stated re- gently by MT. Asquith to women's depu- | tation:
 The remedy lies in your own hands, and if you can persuade a majority of l the present house of commons, either in 1 regard to the conciliatlon bill or in regard 1 to the reform bill. to introduce qualifica- | tions for assurance, on behalf of the goV- ernment, that they will accept the de- csion thus come to, and will forward
 the. measure in one case and give facilities | for it in the other"
 | MT. Asquith added that they hoped to carry the election reform bill this year. | It is believed that the following list shows how ministers are divided on the 1 question.
 For-sir Edward Grey, MT. Lloyd 1 George, Viscount Morley, Viscount Hald-
 ane. MT. Churchill, Earl Beauchamp MT. A. Birrell, MT. J. Burns, MT. s. Huxton, | r. J. A. l Against-Mr.. Asquth, Earl Loreburn, MT. L. Hareourt, Mir. P. McKenna, Mr.
 H. Samuel, MT. C. E. Hovhouse, Lord Pentland.
 Lord crewe and Earl Darlington are de- | scribed as doubtful.
 The active campaign opened by Mir. | Lloyd George and Sir E. Grey in favor or | the movement has provoked the threat of | a movement on the part of prominent ant-suffragist liberals, and the plquanr | possibility of MT. Asquith coming into | the areana to oppose his first lieutenant | has led to considerable talk in the press of a serious cahinet split. | But as a government the present min- | stry is neutral on the subject and even | if the ministry staked their existence on | the passing of womens suffrage. no alter
 native government which made that a | cardinal issue would be possible inso- | much that the conservative party Is just
 as hopelessly divided as the following list shows:
 For-Nfr. Balfour, Mir Bonar Law, Mir. | A Iyttelton Mr. c. Wyndham, Lord H. 1 Cecil, MT. Jesse Ceilings, MT. H. w. For | ster MT. Pike Pease MT. George Cave Lord c. Beresford.
 l Against-I,ord I4andsdowne, MT. A. | Chamberlain Mir Walter Long, MT. F. F. 1 Smith, Lord St. Aldwyn, Lord Cromer 1 Lord Curzon MT. Henry Chaplin, Ioro l Balfour of Burleigh, Sir r. Banbury, Lord G. Hamilton, Duke of Norfolk, Viscount | Ridley.
 1 Mir. Asouith has stated that he would regard the granting of the political fran | chise to women as "a political mistake 1 of very disastrous kind" He spoke of
 the proposal as a gigantic experiment for which there was no parallel in the history
 of any other country in the world, | What a remarkable versatile man the 1 much admired and equally detested MT | I.loyd-George seems to be- One hears of
 him at little Welsh tabernacles used by l Christian Brothers, or some other weird | and wonderful sect and then one meets 1 him at the Carlton dining with evident 1 appreciation of what is good. Next he $ | off to Mentone and Monte Carlo, where
 he will enjoy himself just as other ration 1 al men do It seems ridiculous to speak
 of them In the same breath but the other night when. at a dinner party, the ladies | were asked to vote upon the question, | "Who is the most attractive man in Lon don.'' the votes were exactly divided be- tween the Duke of Westminster and Mir. l lLloyd-George
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