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New-York tribune., 1918-05-09
Premier to Reveal
British War Secrets
In House TODAY

LONDON, May 8.-As a consequences
OF the political situation brought about
by General Maurice's letter, Premier
Lloyd George, according to the lobby
correspondent of "The Daily Tele-
graph" considers it unavoidable to dis
close facts which have been withheld
up to this time for military reasons.
The Premier, it is added, intends to
give facts and figures when he speaks
on the Asquith motion tomorrow.
The government has issued a sum-
mons to its supporters requesting their
attendance in the House of Commons
tomorrow, when "Mr. Asquith will
move resolution which, if carried, will
be a vote of censure of the govern
ment."
"a division is absolutely certain"
says the call.
According to the press association.
the proposal to refer the Maurice af-
fair to two judges may be regarded as
withdrawn, as the suggestion did not
appeal to the members of the House
and its rejection by Mr.. Asquith and
his followers rendered it worthless.
On the other hand, it is added. it is
doubtful whether any other form of
inquiry will be held, and it is likely
the Premier will give the House the
fullest possible information consistent
with public safety, citing figures in
proof of his statement of the relative
strength of the army in January. 1917.
and January, 1913 AS regards other
matters involved in the statement of
General Maurice, it is understood that
an explanation perfectly consistent
with both versions will be made.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-09
u. S. Rubber Imports
Cut to 100, 900 Tons

WASHINGTON, May s.-Carrying
out its announced intention of placing
crude rubber on the list of restricted
imports the War Trade Board to-day
issued regulations holding imports to
the United States to basis OF 100,-
600 tons annually and limiting issu-
ance of licenses for such importation
to 25,0e0 tons from May 6 to July 81.
The cut amounts to something more
than one-third of Americas s imports, as
rubber comes in at the rate of about
$4,000 tons annually.
The restriction. determined upon
after consultation with the War Indus
tries Board and in pursuance with the
Trade Boards policy of conserving
tonnage for military requirements, was
ordered into effect Immediately by the
Bureau of Imports. 1t was announced
that all outstanding licenses for the
import of rubber from overseas will be
void for ocean shipment as to ship
ments made from abroad after to-day.
The announcement said further that
the requirements of the United States
and the Allies will be met in full and
the rest of the $4,000 tons licensed
will be parcelled among manufacturers
of rubber products on the basis Of their
consumption during 1917.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-09
Movies Aid in Search
For Missing Baby
Police to Send Out $4,000 Cir
culars in Hunt Also for
Mrs. Pearl Ferguson

Acting Captain Richard McKenna, of
the Fourth Branch Detective Bureau,
will send out $4,000 circulars bearing
the picture of Mrs. Pearl Ferguson and
Shirley Jacobus, reprinted here. to-day.
That, however, is only small part of
the activity of the police to locate the
missing woman and the fve-month
old baby she is believed to have taken
away with her on May 8.
Slides made from the same picture
will be sent to hundreds of motion
picture theatres outside the city to-
day. The Department of Health has
also been asked to furnish the police
with record of the death of every
baby in the city between the ages Of
four and ten months until the Jacobus
child is found or definitely proven to
be dead.
The police secured further confirma-
tion of their identification of the miss
ing woman as Pearl Ferguson when
Louis M. Quinn, of Lawrence, Mass,
who is stopping at the Claridge Hotel,
telephoned that the Ferguson woman,
he believed, was the same woman he
had employed about ten months ago in
Lawrence.
Detective Conkling, of the Fourth
Branch, who was sent to Lawrence as
q. result of the information given by
Mr.. Quinn, found the mother of the
Ferguson woman and notified Captain
McKenna that she would be in New
York to-day to aid the police in the
search for her daughter.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-09
Mass Troops
In Austria to
Crush Revolt
Continued from page 1

OF troops have been made in the large
centres, and very particularly in Bo-
hemia, in Galicia, in Styria and in all
the Southern Slav states, to suppress
IN ITS inception every attempt at an
uprising.
Famine Conditions Grow
"The burgomasters Of the Austrian
cities complain OF famine. The 'Neue
Freie Presse' publishes a series of
statements made by the burgomasters
of Austrian cities upon the food situa-
ton. The Burgomaster of Innsbruck
writes that the living conditions
throughout the Tyrol are the worst
that can be imagined. For months it
has not been possible to obtain -four
except that made of maize, and then
only in insufficient quantity. Potatoes
are unobtainable. There are whole
districts that have not had bread or
-four for weeks.
"The Burgomaster of Klagenfurst
writes that he does not see how pro-
visions are to be obtained for the
month of May. Flour is almost entire
ly lacking. Milk and potatoes are not
hausted. The situation is unbearable
or Berlin.
"The Burgomaster of Gablonz, in
Bohemia, writes: 1T is folly for the
government to distribute food cards
when nothing can be procured with
them. This method will only succeed
in driving the people to despair"
The second dispatch follows:
ut is learned that during the last
few weeks disturbances that are be-
lieved to be very serious have broken
out among the crews of the Austro-
hungarian fleet, which are composed
in large part of Slavs and Italians.
These disturbances appear to have
lasted some time, and have been sup
pressed with difficulty.
Great changes have been made in
the high command of the feet and
measures taken in the founding of a
naval school, notably at Trieste, to in
crease the number of Germans in the
navy"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-09
Maurice a Sacrifice
To Saue British Arn1v.
Niezu in WASHINGTON,
(By TIC Associated Press)


WASHINGTON, May 8. - Close OBJ
servers in diplomatic circles of develop
ments in British Cabinet and parlia-
mentary circles which led up to the
present crisis see a direct connection
between the letter of General Maurice
and the enforced retirement of General
Robertson as chief of staff short time
ago.
In fact, General Maurice is said open
ly to have voiced dissatisfaction of the
British military party against interfer-
ence by civilians in plans which Gem
eral Robertson only expressed in the
secrecy of the war council.
That General Maurice has offered
himself as sacrifice to save the Brit
aster is the conviction of military ex-
perts well acquainted with the stu
alton that has existed in England since
General Robertson's retirement.
IN the opinion of these observers the
crisis in England fin Is a close parallel
to that which existed in the United
States in the Civil War, when Lincoln
was finally obliged to choose between
unqualified support of Grant, Sherman
and other great generals in the field
and the civilian Cabinet and Congress
sional committees which attempted to
direct campaigns from Washington.
1t is pointed out that an interesting
possibility of the British Cabinet
change now would be the abandonment
Of the projected Irish conscription.
This would be the case if Mr.. Asquith
and Viscount Grey returned to power,
for, while they might not feel it neces-
sary to go to Parliament to repeal the
conscription act they might refrain
from issuing the order in council nee
essary to apply conscription.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-09
L.ansdowne Insists
Peace by Parley
Way to End War
Great Body in Germany
and Austria Sick of Butch
cry, He Tells Lords

LONDON, May Sin the House of
Lords to-day debate arose on the
pacfist agitation in the course of
which the Marquis of Lansdowne
reiterated his opinion that peace
would never come except by negotia-
elon; Those expecting that peace
would come through knockout blow,
no SAID, We're unable to tell the coun-
Try how that blow could be delivered.
or ~, me cost Of delivering it.
mere existed great body of
oplnlon IN Germany and Austria. con-
sinned sia'1 Lord Lansdowne, which was
SICK OF the butchery and desirous of
stopping it. He who wished to en-
courage that kind Of opinion and ad-
vocated knockout, should think twice
oelore driving the British people into
very dangerous mood.
Earl Curzon thought that too much
was being made of the pacifist propa-
ganda. He was unable to find any def
Ilte foundation for the suggestion that
RI Reace overtures had been turned down.
nc government always had in view the
Ipossloility of an honorable termina-
Ion Ion OF the war by negotiation. At no
olm,e nad tins or the other Allied gov
ernments refused to consider anv ne
gotiations. <''S "e-
- On the contrary, it was the under
Standing among the Allies that if over
~ o4res .S We're made at any time to any
bona bl mem q, from responsible quarters of a
t pona hde character the ally to whom
they We're made should INVESTIGATES
Ihem, always on the understanding
mat II anything came of them the re-,
malnder OF the Allies should he com
miunlcated m with, so that combined Ar
ton might be taken. az
5eace by negotiation" concluded
4I; Hora Curzon, "is utterly impossible at
ms moment, because this country ;s
its history" N"'e0' cr'sls IN
New-York tribune., 1918-05-09
Crisis tor Lloyd George in Vote To-dav

lncisiyely, with no elaboration. He was
O., one OF those "who suffer fools badly
a1ollsh assad questions occasionally were
crushed them quickly and curtlv He
,i aid not parry with them; he simply
kliled them with the straight brutality
suen .1 as Speaker Tom Reed dealt to his
Good afternoon, gentlemen he he.
said, having finished; never ANYTHING
more. The correspondents left with
more more. real knowledge in their note
to get from days spent in reading 9Th, the
matter written by military experts.
General Maurice is rated as one of
me ,.;a most authoritative military histo-
rians and critics who write in the Enr.
lish language. He has made a dee deem
study OF and has confessed profound
ard1 aam'rat;0n nt;5;a. for the strategy and gen
Grant and other celebrated generals in
the American Civil War. -
New-York tribune., 1918-05-09
Picture of Maurice as
He Appeared at His
Bi-Weekly Audiences

LONDON, May 8.-The most talked
OF man in England to-day is General
Frederick B. Maurice, formerly Chief
Director of Military Operations at the
War Office.
II some volunteer general or some
soldier who had graduated from poll
tics or business into soldering had
defed and trampled upon all the laws
and traditions of the British army. he
would not have excited such enormous
surprise as has General Maurice in his
famous letter impugning the veracity
of the ministry. Had some less we'll
trained officer written the letter, it
would have been put down to lack of
tradition and to disregard of the con-
ventlonalltles by citizen soldier.
But General Maurice, in his person
allty, his record and his career, has
been the personification of all that is
conventional, austere and correct in
the professional soldier. His weekly
and, recently, his bi-weekly confer
ences with American newspaper CORE
sspondents have impressed, them with
ms WIDE knowledge, passion for ac-
curacy in details and his personal
aloofness as thou~h he were perform
ing, function that professionally he
rather disliked and resented. Barring
his uniform, he would readily pass for
a typical Prussian staff officer Of the
Moltke school,
His receptions to the correspondents
have not been interviews, but lectures.
The correspondents filed into the
sanctuary at the War Office at the ap-
pointed minute. Any man who was
late found the door barred against
him. Military usage demanded prompt
ness, and General Maurice would not
forgive or excuse a lack of it.
A tall, blond gentleman, with a fresh
pink complexion and monocle, sur
rounded by maps of all sorts-contour
maps, nat maps, maps of elevations
all marked with flags with numbers
and with red, blue and yellow pencil
marks, faced the correspondents. Cen
eral Maurice dealt with all those mans
as Paderewski deals with the KEYS IF
piano. He knew every detail of
them.
Good afternoon. gentlemen" was
the greeting; never anything more. No
word was wasted in gossip or persi-
fage. Standing before the maps with
professional manner and in Ian
guage so precise his stenoprapher
would not need to correct it, the gen
eral stated the military situation.
Having finished, the general would
pause for questions. All answerable
questions were replied to promptly and
New-York tribune., 1918-05-09
Premier threw the blame on the SOL
diers.
Radical Paper Reioices

Radical Paper Rejoices
The Radical "Daily News" which is
opposed to the Premier, rejoices that
the government will not accept the As
quith motion, but will treat it as vote
CT censure, SO that Parliament on
Thursday must take decision involv-
ing the life of the government.
General Maurice is attacked by "The
Daily Express" which hopes and be-
lieves that "the government will dis
pose of this latest mares nest in such
an unmistakable manner that the un-
restricted warfare which lately has
been an unedifying feature of political
life will disappear
"The Times" cditorially urges the
government to stand firmly on its pro-
posal Of a judicial inquiry into the
statements of General Maurice.
"The Manchester Guardian" says the
government has no alternative but to
Clear itself completely in the eyes of
the country, "for these statements went
to the heart of the responsibility for
our recent reverses"
The general opinion of the provin-
cial newspapers is that the government
will weather the storm, especially as
few members of the House of Com
mons can be found who think a change
in the government so necessary that it
should be achieved at any cost at the
present period of the war.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-09
Asquith viii
Force Test II,
House To-day
Continued from page 1

series Of incidents during the debate
such as the retirement Of Robertson
Jelllcoe and Trenchard.
Lloyd Georges wonderful ability as
an emotional speaker is certain to he
demonstrated tomorrow, for in ali
MS long political life he never faced
stronger opposition or had to answe,
such grave charges.
M1nisterial utterances never are re-
markable tor their clarity and often
turn on the subtle phrasing of a SEN
eence or the shading of words. One
s;3IHelnment organ suggests that pos
s.ply ooth the Premier and Maurice
are are right, but that the former made
different deductions from the f,cmres
Experience has shown that minis.
terlal answers to questions in Parua-
ment are frequently susceptible of two
interpretations and that he obvious
one is not always what the minister in !.
tended to convey.
British Parliamentary records contain
rev incidents resembling the present
SITUATION. Should committee be an
pointed to sit in Judgment, the ques-
tlon arises whether the government
eoulo carry on during the inquiry. For
instance, General Cough was deprived
OF ms command while the inquiry was
esNC AilIO tLe COl1aDSe OF the
NTH army, and Maurice certainly will
noio no army position while the court
martial is in session. NA
Home Rule Storm Is Next
IT the government weathers the
storm tomorrow it will ride into an
other next week when the Home Rule
measure is introduced. Tomorrow
the Premier will depend largely on the
unionists support; next week the
Unlonists will be in opposition on the
question of Home Rule.
Labor is keeping ominously quiet.
but l have good authority for stating
that the political leaders expect to
gam considerable political prestige in
the next few weeks.
The pacifsts are becoming almost
as they hate Lloyd George
and forget everything else in JOY over
his embarrassment. They think>a new
whatever its composition.
would hasten peace, and they advocate
peace at any price.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-09
Charge Against Lloyd
George Is Same That
Wrecked Asquith Rule
LIBERAL Cabinet
Welcome to Wilson
Miner and Former Premier
Together Might Solve
Difficult Problem
By C. W. Gilbert

WASHINGTON, May 8.-Washington
Il tremendously interested in the Brit
;,h Cabinet crisis. since it is generally
believed here that change in govern
ment in England which would bring
forward the more liberal element,
which follows Mr.. Asquith, and the
labor element, whose most statesman
ike leader is Arthur Henderson, wonld
hs welcome to the American Admins
trstion.
Bv this statement is not meant that
Nj. Wilson is consciously and inten-
tioually influencing British politics. On
the contrary, such influence as he ex-
arts there is the influence of his ideas
and personality. And there is no deny
;nr that the radical elements in all AL
lied countries gather strength from the
chief exponent of the democratic idea
among the adversaries Of Germany.
The government of Lloyd George has
hardly given more than lip service to
the more idealistic views of Mr.. Will
son. A more liberal government in
England would do much to promote
that political unity which is now so
unfortunately lacking among the Allies.
For these reasons Washington watches
the present crisis in London more in
tently to-day than it ever watched any
Of the previous storms which the gov
ernment of Lloyd George has wealth
cred
This is real crisis. The same
charge that wrecked the original Lib
eral government and subsequently the
Asquith coalition government now is
made against the Lloyd George gov
ernment--namely, that is has failed in
the efficient prosecution of the war.
II Charges Are True
Change Is Certain
II General Maurice's charges are
proved true the fall of Lloyd George
is certain. The charges, indeed, may
never have to come to trial, for it ap-
pears that the Premier will accept the
passage of the motion of Mr.. Asquith
for an inquiry by the House of Com
mons as vote of censure and resign.
General Maurice's charges are that
the Lloyd George government allowed
the British man power in France to
decline and at the same time took over
an additional extent of the West front,
and then deceived the country about
both these facts in statements to Par
lament. 1t is, of course, a charge of
the utmost gravity, made by soldier
who had full opportunity to know the
truth.
On this question of reduced British
man power reports already have reached
this country. One story, fairly we'll
is that Marshal Haig had
100000 fewer men under his command
At the front this year than he had last
year. In the face of this he had about
forty miles more to defend.
The explanation given is that both
the French and British miscalculated
the extent of this country's participa-
tion in the war this year. Both coun-
tries were misled by the optimistic
stories that were put forth in Wash
lngton about the number of tons Of
ships we should build and about the
number of airplanes we should send
aefo1H the ocean,
New-York tribune., 1918-05-09
Austrian Peace Move
Rejected by French

PARIS, May 8.-The Committee on
Foreign Affairs of the Chamber of
Deputies has completed its investiga-
tion into the Austrian peace move and
adopted the following resolution:
"The committee, after examining docu-
ments and hearing witnesses concern
ing peace conversations engaged in and
pursued by Austria-H Hungary in 1917
'18, finds that these conversations at
no moment offered an opportunity for
a peace acceptable to France and her
allies'
New-York tribune., 1918-05-09

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