New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-20
With ) designations
Impending, British
Premier Must Rest.
CABINET AT ODDS
ON VITAL POINTS
Questions of COnsCription
and Policy in Balkans
Divide Government.

London. Oct. 10 Anxiety prevailed
to-day when it was announced that
Premier Asquith's indisposition had
taken a turn for the worse and that his
condition, due 10 overwork. required a
temporary Withdrawal from public ac-
tivities Shortly before O'Clock the
following bulletin was issued at Down
ing Street.
"The Prime Minister is suffering
from an attack Of gastro-intestinal
catarrh, which will nccessitate few
days OF complete rest"
Earlier i'm the day Mr. Asquith at
tended meetings of the War Commit
tee and the Cabinet, both of them held
in his Official residence.
Mr.. Asquith was indispoSed yester-
day, but attended the Capinet meeting
and received number of visitors dur
ing the evening. His condition WAS so
aggravated to-day that he consulted a
physician, who ordered him to remain
IN bed for several days and then take
rest Of few days in the country.
II is rumored tonight that Earl Cur
zon. Lord Privy Seal. and at least two
other Ministers, will quit the Cabinet
before the end of the week.
Differences in the Cabinet
The country is waiting anxiously to
learn whether the Cabinet ministers
will be able 10 compose their differ
ences. Both newspapers and politicians
agree that vital differences of opinion
have arisen over the conscription issue
and the Near East question. In the
meantime party newspapers are carry
ing on a bitJer debate and exchanging
accusations of lack of patriotism and
OF placing party and private interests
above those OF the country.
The Cabinet and the country, as q
whole, would regard a general election
on party lines as a calamity. II such
a contest we're fought on the question
of conscripton it might be expected to
foment great bitterness and class dis
sension
In Premier Asquith's absence, David
Lloyd George, Minister Of Munitions,
led in the House of Commons this al
ternoon. There were more than
hundred questions in the House on
the orders OF the day, dealing chiefly
with Near Eastern affairs, the Oar
danelles and the method of raising
necessary men for the army, and while
the ministers answered many Of them
i'm no case was the information which
the public was anxiously awaiting sup
piled.
Italian Aid for Serbia
As TO Italian cooperation in Serbia,
Mr. Lloyd George was only able to say:
Methods whereby Italy can most ef-
fectually cooperate in helping Serbia
I'm the common cause are under discus
sion among the Allies"
The statement was made that the
Earl Of Derby was serving as director
of recruiting without salary or mill
tary rank.
Sir Edward Carson, whose resigna-
tion rs Attorney General was an
nounced yesterday, did not put in an ap-
pearancc. and no explanation was made
of his retirement. The House was
crowded. owing 70 the expectation OF
Developments IN the political arena and
the excitement over the expected re
iusal Of the government TO reply 20 a
flow of more or less hostile questions
The determination to avoid prema-
ture revelations OF any nature was eyl-
denced in the reply made to-day in the
House Of Commons by Lord Robert
Cecil, Parliamentary Under Secretary
for Foreign Affairs, to the query 70.
garding the Dardanelles campaign, Of
which Robert l.. Cultivate, Liberal
member OF Parliament for Hanley, had
given notice. The query was as to
whether the Russian government stlf
attached the same Importance 20 the
Dardanelles operations as II did when
the British Ambassador in Petrograd
stated that the operations had been
undertaken at the request Of Russia
with the object of dra wing a Turkish
force from the Cauca Us.
"lt would be obviously improper
said the Parliamentary Under Secre-
tary, "to make statement in regard
TO the Importance attached TO any spe-
cial theatre of war by one OF our allies
or ourselves"
Lord Robert Hard Pressed.
Admitting the ambassador was sccu-
rateIy quOteu' LoIu NopeiV C0S' "uueu
that the quotation must not, however,
be taken as complete statement OF all
the considerations involved. IL was
said when notice Of the query was
given that 1t was designed 20 bring out
whether Lord Miners suggestion OF the
evacuation Of the Gallipoli Peninsula
found any official support.
So far as the Dardanelles and the
Balkans are concerned. a good deal Of
the pessimism which reigned a week
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