New Britain herald., 1915-11-13
CHURCHILL TO FIGHT WITH BRITISH ARMY Resigns From Cabinet to Join
 Forces in France
 WAS TARGET OF CRITICISM
Former Chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster Will Justify the Expedi- DardanelIes.

DardanelIes.
 London, Nov. 13.-No figure in Brit ish politics has been the target of more criticism since the war started than Winston Spencer Churchill, who has just resigned from the post of chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster in the, British cabinet and is now about to join the army in France.
 MT. Churchill assumed the least inn portant position in the cabinet, that of the chancellorship of the Duchy of Lancaster, when the coalition ministry was formed last May, prior to which time he held the important post of first lord of the admiralty.
 Flood of Criticism.
 Incidentally Mr. Churchill's change of office did not reduce the flood of criticism which starts, as rule, from public statements which older men call at least indiscreet He is forty one years old, but, according to his critics, he does not acquire discretion with years.
 Rightly or wrongly, Churchill has been blamed as if solely responsible LOT IIlc 1IlducuudCy Ol IHO Dl1IlSII cA- petition for the relief of Antwerp, a military movement that brought little relief to the Belgians and ended with the internment of a large part of the British marine expedition in Holland. Similarly he has had the brunt of the public censure for the attempt to force the Dardanelles without the help of the army, a failure which up to date has produced a British casualty list of approximately 100000 men.
 Cynically Dubbed.
 It is logically unreasonable to place upon his young shoulders the com plete responsibility for both of these undertakings, which could not have been made without the approval of his older cabinet associates, but in spite of this he has been cynically dubbed Duke of Antwerp and GallipoH.''
 MT. Churchilrs prophecy early in the war that if the German ships Gid not come out and fight i've would dig them out of their hole like rats,'' his prediction that if came, to England they would be surrounded by "A swarm of hornets" and his claim at Dundee, where he went to speak before his after his clash With Ad- r1iral Fisher, that the British on the Gallipoli Peninsula were within a few miles" of great victory, are cited as instances of form of ora tory that may be said to evidence a temperamental defect in a cabinet minister.
 Another Mistake.
 On Trafalgar Day he made anoth- CT mistake, according to his critics, when he wrote Through our long delays the enemy has seized a new in itiative in the Near East" One day when he was present in the house of commons he was asked "How the de- lays had arisen and who had been re- sponsible for them.' Not long be- fore he had been chatting with David Lloyd George on the treasury bench, but when the question was put he had disappeared. Cheers greeted the ques- tion, and members called out He was here; he is in the house, and MT. Hogge, one of the prominent baiters, asked why, has he run away?".
 Several days later he expressed re- gret that he was not present when the question was asked, as he meant that the delay was incidental to the joint action in military and diplo- Hdt1c aIIa1rS or the VdrlOuS allied governments among whom the re- sponsibility was shared.
 To Explain Resignation.
 MT. Churchill intends to explain the reason for his resignation at the sit ting of the house of commons on Monday. According to the Times parliamentary correspondent, MT. Churchill will review the war opera tons of the admiralty during his term as first lord and will justify the expeditions to Antwerp and the Dardanelles.
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