UNEXPECTED DENOUEMENT
. MR. BONAR LAW SENT FOR VICTORY FOR MR. LLOYD-GEORGE RUMANIAN CRISIS ONE RAY OF HOPE IN THE OUTLOOK Yesterday the public was told that the Cabinet crisis at Home was over. To-day, a bombshell descends in the ' resignation of Mr. Asquith, and its acceptance by the King. The carcful reader will note -in the maze of rumours, reports, that even the best-informed | writers outside the Cabinet wero never sure of their ground in regard to the negotiations of the leaders. One of the earlier reports 6ttaed that Mr. Lloyd George had been summoned to Buckingham Palace. But this was not so. The main fact emerges that Mr. Lloyd George has gained his point—a small War Council with effeotive powers of initiative, and' more freedom of action for the naval and military chiefs. The military situation in Rumania is worse than it was'yesterday, but there is one ray of hope in the fact that tho Russians have . junctioned with the Rumanians at Bucharest. The Germans claim large captures in prisoners and booty. A report from the British Minister at Athene states that the situation is being restored to somo semblance of order. , '
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2948, 7 December 1916, Page 7
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193UNEXPECTED DENOUEMENT Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2948, 7 December 1916, Page 7
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