The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-19
Rapid Change Expected i'm
the Formation of a CoaIi-
ton Ministry
BALFOUR SLATED FOR
CHURCHILL'S POST
Article Making the Announcement in
the Pail Mall Gazette Bears ALI the
Signs of a Semi Official Announce
ment.

LONDON, May 19-Reports Of dissen-
sions in the Admiralty between the First
Lord, Winston Churchill, and the First
Sea Lord, Lord Fisher, which threatened
crisis in the Asquith cabinet and a coal
Iition ministry were crystallized yesterday
by a full page article in the Pail Mall Ga
zette announcing a radical change
The article bears all signs of a semi-offi-
cial announcement and is over the sigma
ture Of J. L. Garvin, editor of the Pail
Mall Gazette, who IS regarded as an au-
| thority on political matters and considered
as very close to high official sources. Mr..
Garvin declares new cabinet is now
| forming and that Lord Fisher has resigned
| his office.
The crisis in the admiralty has in
lvolyed the whole ministry and the oppo-
sition,' he says Lord Fisher has re-
signed and not only made it impossible
/ for Winston Churchill to retain his pres
ent post as First Lord of the admiralty
but has brought down the government it.
self "
The writer expresses the belief that the
chief opposition leaders have already
agreed to enter a coalition government
He says the nominal question on which
the split came was the Dardanelles, but the
really fundamental cause was the incom-
patibility of the personalities of Mr.
Churchill and Lord Eisher Lord Fisher,
iwho had not atten9ed admiralty meetings
for two days, finally resigned and went to
Scotland
Mr. Garvin suggests that Mr. Asquith
lis the only possible premier and then pro-
Iceeds to 6nHounce the Encouragement of
the entire cabinet Arthur j Balfour,
former premier and ex.leader Of the oppo-
Isition, is mentioned to succeed Mr..
4 Churchill the latter becoming secretary
of state for India. The Marquis of Crewe,
present, lord Of the privy seal, is to be-
Icome president Of the council. Chancellor
of the Exchequer David sI-leyd George
Imay take an office which has been created
since the war began, the ministry of war
supplies, or, ''if Lord Kitchener goes to
the front Lloyd George ought to become
full minister of war" says the Pail Mall
Gazette
Bonar Law for Chancellor.
Andrew Bonar Law, leader of the oppo.
sition in the House Of Commons, is men
toned as chancellor Of the exchequer
succeeding Lloyd George, and Austen
Chamberlain is talked of for secretary oi
state for the Colonies. Lord Reading, bet
ter known as Sir Rufus Isaacs, lord CHIEF
Justice of England, is slated, according tc
the announcement, for lord high chancel
lor Sir John Simon, attorney-ge general. Is
to become lord chief justice, and Freder
lex +. Smith, attorney general The Ear
of Derby also is to be included in the new
cabinet. The state of his health preclude.
Lord Lansdowne from accepting a port
folio, but either Lord Miner, Niscoun
/ Curzon or Lord Selborne may be included
The Pail Mall Gazette says in conclu
sion:
The following summary is fairly full
though not quite complete. The minister
retiring are the lord high chancellor Wis
count Haldane; president of the council
! Earl Beauchamp; president of the boar'
of agriculture. Lord Lucas; colonial secre
tary, Lewis Harcourt, and chief secretar.
!, for Ireland, Augustine Birrell.
THE Unionsts to enter the cabinet ar
PMr Balfour, Mr. Bonar Law, Austel
chamberlain, f. f. Smith, the Earl o
Derby, and Walter Long if his health pei
!. imits. Arthur Henderson, the labor mem
: Der, is indispensable as representing tha
T interest"