Arizona republican., 1915-11-03
Former Attorney General of British Cabinet Makes Scathing Criticism of the Operations in Reply to Premier Asquith.
ASQUITH'S SPEECH
 IS REHABILITATION
Saws He Is Willing to Take His Full Share of Respon- sibility Designed to Open Way for Russians from Closed Black Sea.
TRepublioan A. p. Leased wirel


 LONDON. Nov. 2-The prime min ister. Mir Asquith. in the House of Commons. today delivered before the largest asemblv of the year his widely reralded and much discussed. state ment on the progress of the war. The urenier's speech was a characteristic one His most important declaration was that the war will he conducted by a cabinet committee of from three 10 five members which will consult with the full cabinet on questions of the most serious nature.
 It is taken for granted that Premier Asquith. Lord Kitchener. Secretary for War. and A. J. Balfour. first Lord of the Admiralty will be members. The uIan was expectevd and seems in the nature of a compromise to meet the criticism that cabinet of 9 members is unwelc0med.
 With respect to the Dardanelles op- erations. the premier insisted upon talk ing his full share of the responsibility. These operations. he said. were de- signed to influence the Balkan situation open the way for supplies for the Rus siars and strike a blow at the heart of ;he Turkish empire. The allied
  uuith pointed out. were holding up 2oe.e00 Turks. But he gave no indi- cation Of what the future policy would be on thIs important section of the war front. saving merely:
 Too Soon to Judge
 "T cannot say more as regards this Varticular theatre of the war. It is too socn to pronounce final judgment. The situation in the Dardanelles is re- ceiSing our most careful and anxious consideration. not as an isolated thing, but as part and parcel of the larger strategic question, which was raised hy the wholly recent development in the eastern theatre af war"
 The opinion in the lobbies of the house. according to some reports, is that il is not proposed to abandon the DardaneIles operation
 Sir Edward Carson, the former at torney-Seneral. was listened to with almost as great attention as was Mir. Asquith. with the expectation that he would throw more light on the reasons for his resignation. Those who awaited his explanation were not disappointed. l
 Sir Edward declared that the cabin cts slowness in deciding upon the pol icy Of aiding Serbia was the main lFdNtin TOT HIS OlSaSTeGment- lie as | serted that the country was anxious to l know whether it's resources of men and ! materials were being used to the best | advantage. He described the cabinet | as machine utterly incapable of car | rylng on war He questioned | " neither the government was justified | in embarking upon the Dardaneles ex- | pedition. and spoke of the failure at 1 Suvla bay as the most disastrous of | the war.
 Speech is Reorganization Premier Asquiths speech was re- | exploitation Of what the government ! lad accomplished in the past year in | organizing a great army. He said that | the gigantic overseas operations-the 1 work Of the navy in transporting l troops-had been carried on with | loss cf life considerably less than one | tenth of one per cent of the men en- | gagged. that the great German fleet did | not dare to show it's face where it | could he attacked; that the Germans 1 had not gained a foot of ground in the | west since April.
 lie revealed that Premier Venizelos | Cf Greece agreed to mobilize the Greek 1 army if Great Britain and France to- SeJher furnished 150.0O0 men and ex- Tiained that any delay in going to the rescue of Serbia was due to the be- lcr that Greece would live up to her treaty obligations toward her neigh bor.
 On the Villa question of compulsion,