The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-03-28

England. The feet sails forth
with. The reason is unknown.
LONDON, March 2s.-~The govern
ment is still floundering In the auag-
nlre i'm which their. honest misundef-
standings" ana other amazing do.nGs
OF the past few weeks have landed
them.
Their confined efforts. exerted at
Two separate cabinet meetings yester-
day at which Field Marshal Sir John
French and Adjutant General Ewart
were present. failed to induce those OIL
fcers 10 reeant their designations
The pressure will he renewed
probably wifn the kings help, during
the weekend, and the government
followers. for reasons which have not
been made known, predict consteentss
that Premier Asquith Will be able 10
tcl, parliament on Monday THAI the
designations have been Withdrawn.
Meanwhile. Mr. filings worth, one
of the liberal whips told liberal
meeting at blackburn last night that
sFstf every GkuGSF iA3 AsiN 81 tA~S
the government will not finch
Among many rumors IS one that
the government Is trying To get Briga-
Jiier General Cough TO surrender the
document containing the pledge which
no took to the Curragh that the Off
ears In ireland would not be used
against Ulster, thus acknowledging
she government reputation Oh the
pledge.
Stiu At Curragb.
In the case Field Marshal French
and Adjntant Ewart would he salts
fed. otherwise they would feel La
honor bound to stand by their sig
rat,re which the government repu-
dated. f,,
Acknowledgement Cough Is stui
Mt the Curragh Notwithstanding the
rumors that he has been summoned
to London.
According to the Dublin Evenine
Photograph the officers at the IuFraEh
are determined Ia ignore the repadia~
ton of the pledge and II they are
formally notified Of Its rcpudiation
they win ignore the notification.
placing their reliance on the army
council.
The now disciplinary orders do not
seem 10 be objected to anywhere ex-
cent among those who regard IneTn
~ an imputation on the ariny's VIII
lingness TO obey orders.
The radicals treat them as a new
pronounoement putting the army in
Ia Mace" but the unionists' profess
70 eeo nothing in them more than a
fesnording of existing regulations
which have not been and were not
likely to be ignored
Says Seeiy should Go.
There ts some recrudescance OF i'm
Datience by the ministerial extremists
n the retention OF Secretary OF War
EeeIy. The radical nation sharply at
lacks Colonel Seely and declares he
ought to have gone long ago The
nation complains that when Colonel
Ecely changed his politics Che was for
merlv q Conservative he never really
became q liberal. 1t says he has
ehirkAd the task OF democratizing the
army and would be incompetent to
handle II il he tried.
The nation admits that there lis a
hopeful strain among the liberals which
thiinks the main trouble is over but
tloubts that this is SO and Is con-
WINGED that the spirit of the army is
worse than ever
IL says that the government can
Only count confidently on one soldier
81 first rate powers and he had TO re-
align because no Is tangled In Colonel
6eely's blunder.
The nation criticises the govern
mcnt for its slackness, and declares
that .the happy go lucky method or
want OF method has been used once
too often"