The Elbert County tribune., 1916-12-08
ASQUITH QUITS
The PREMIERSHIP
ANDREW BONAR LAW, UNioNIsT
LEADER, CALLED TO PLACE
BY MONARCH.
ITALIAN SHIP is SUNK
ADMITS OFFENSIVE
OF TEUTONS IN WAlLACHlA
is MAKING PROGRESS.
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Western Newspaper Union New. Service.
London. = The government crisis
found solution Tuesday night, which,
up to the hour of its announcement,
was considered the least probable of
practical alternatives. Herbert Il. AS
quith resigned the premiership. which
he has held through eight stormy
years of domestic and foreign history.
The Unionist leader, Andrew Bonar
Law, was summoned to the palace i'm
mediately after Mr. Asquith had de-
parted and the King offered him the
prime minister's commission, which
he had just accepted from Mr. As
quiths hands.
No announcement regarding Mr..
Bonar Laws decision has been made
and there are some doubts whether he
will accept the heavy responsibility.
If he declines, it is considered certain
that the honor will fall to David
Lloyd-George.
The continuation of the coalition
cabinet. with some changes in its
membership and the speeding up of
the war management will be the pol
icy in either event.
The premier's decision to resign and
advise the King to summon Andrew
Bonar Law to form a cabinet was
taken after day of extraordinary po-
litical excitement and activity.
Petrograd.- The Rumanians have
been unsuccessful in attempts to
check the Teutonic forces on the
roads to Ploechti and Bucharest, says
the war office, in Tuesdays official
statement.
Teutonic armies are making rapid
progress from the north and north
west. already having cut off the city
from the south and southwest.
Russian offensive making little
progress in Moldavia, according to
Berlin.
Serbians report victorious progress
on the Cerna front in Macedonia.
More Bulgar positions captured.
Italian steamer Palermo torpedoed
and sunk off coast of Spain. Twenty
five Americans aboard, of whom one
is said to have been fatally wounded.
The armies of the Teutonic allies
fighting in southwest Rumania, with
Bucharest as their main objective,
have joined hands from the Danube
in the south to the northwest of Bu-
charest. where, coming through the
mountainous region, they have reached
the town of Tergovistea. Berlin an
nounces that the battle of the Arge-
chu river has come to final conclu-
sion, with the Teutonic allies the VIC
tors, and that all along the front they
are driving closer to Bucharest
With the capture of Tergovistea
and farther south the driving of the
Rumanians beyond the railroad juno
tion town of Titu. the central powers
forces now hold intact all the railway
lines running into Bucharest from the
west The Predeal Pass line running
north from the capital into Transyl-
vania is the sole remaining railway
connection in western Wailachia part
ly in Rumanian hands. With the Teu.
tons now nearly astride this line at
route seems likely to be taken
Athens, Dec 5.-The Crown Council
sat until 2:30 o'clock Saturday morn
ing. Later the French, British, Rus
sian and Italian ministers made the
following announcement:
"On the proposals of the ministers
OF the four powers at the instance of
Admiral du Fournet, the Greek gov
ernment was informed that the en-
tente will accept six batteries of
mountain artillery, instead of ten,
whose surrender was demanded by
December first, waving on their de-
livery all questions of the surrender
of other armament The Greek gov
ernment accepted and agreed to pro-
coed with the immediate delivery OF
the six batteries"