PREDICTED FOR AN EARLY DATE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 58, 14 March 1910, Page 5

PREDICTED FOR AN EARLY DATE.

THE PRESENT STATE OF

AFFAIRS

ARMY NOT TO SUFFER

[press association.] (Received Mar. 13, 5 p.m.) LONDON, Mar. 12. Several newspapers anticipate that when the House of Lords reject or postpone the House of Common's veto resolutions Mr Asquith will ask the King for guarantees or appeal to the country. Sir A. F. Acland-Hood, speaking at Wellington, anticipated Mr Asquith' s resignation within three months, for which a financial crisis was being prepared. Unionist newspapers are republishin" a speech made by Mr Churchhill oiT the 24th February, which was not cabled to the Colonies. The Daily Telegraph states that the Nationalists have received assurance that the whisky duties will be abandoned in the next Budget. The Manchester Guardian declares that the electors commissioned the Government to suppress the Lords insurrection by granting supply for an extended period, and that the House of Commons commits itself to approval of the Government's doings throughout the session. Mr Haldane, yielding to Opposition protests in the House of Commons, promised the Army Annual Bill before Easter. He announced that he was taking sufficient supply for the Army for several months. The Unionists thanked Mr Haldane for his conciliatory attitude.