The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-18
Rome Heare That German Ambassador Already Has Left His Post on Secret Return to The Kaiser, and Awaits War.
 ENGLISH ADMIRALTY ROW OVERSHADOWING
Victories of the French in La Bassee Are Counter Balanced By Russian Losses, in the Minds of. London Observers.

London, May 18-What looks like a cabinet crisis suddenly has been sprung on Great Brit ain. There has arisen what ap- pears to be a rupture between the civil head of the admiralty, Winston Spencer Churchill and the lords of the admiralty, but. particularly Lord Fisher, ad-3 miral of the fleet. As a result the possibility of material changes in the cabinet is being, discussed. For the moment the situation holds the political field. All kinds of rumors areN current but the ministers are not letting the facts out of the government offices.
 The Times is among the London newspapers which this morning men ton the fact that Lord Fisher has not attended the admiralty for the last two days and the rumors arising from this of friction between him and MT. 1 Churchill.
 Ed1torially. the Times refers to these. reports as confirming the popu- lar impression that the government
 like the nation, has reached the rest
 less transitional stage.
 The government presumably is | anxious about the character of it's own
 control of the war the Times says, l which is being Subjected to wide
 spread and searching criticism both in l public and private At present the storm center seems to, be the admir-
 atty but beyond the above mentioned
 facts all it's runor and, we trust and l believe, unfounded rumor' The editorial then goes on to refer
 in general terms to the dissatisfaction
 expressed in many. quarters with MT l Churchill, who is credited with assun1- ing responsibility and overriding his i expert advisers s'to a degree which
 might at any time endanger the na- 1 tiona1 safety
 The Times declines to express any 1 definite opinion but it suggests it would l be well to have a seaman at the head
 of the admiralty who would 1conlTnf,=s~ popular approval and it thinks the only man for this post is Lord Fisher l The success of the offensive of the allies around LeBasee is, in the opin- lion of British observers, balanced by Ithe Russian reverse in the <eastern
 arena of the war.
 Tn southern Poland the Russians confess to having been forced to re- treat to a new line betweer tise Pilican river and the upper Vistula- Conse- quentIy their whole plan of campaign may have been profoundly altered by the irresistible advance Of the Ger manic allies.
 The Russians have been compelled Itc abandon their movement in the
 westerly passes of the Carpathia-ns, ibut they appear still to hold Uzsok Pass the main gateway to Hungary. l Emperor Nicholas. of Russia, today i again left Petrograd for the front al- though, which front has not been df-
 vulged.
 I The campaign so successfully launch ed in the past few days in the north ern part of France, ff it can he pushed Ihome must have a most serious effe' l on the German lines in the belief of British military circles. With the pos. sibIe advent of Italian forces on the Austrian rear the argument is being advanced that there must be soon a l drelaxation of the German and Austrian tpressure on the Russian front