LENGTHY CABINET COUNCIL.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 70, 24 March 1914, Page 5

LENGTHY CABINET COUNCIL.

STATEMENT BY MR ASQUITH;.

A MISUNDERSTANDING.

'LONDON, Maroh. 23, Sir Arthur Paget conferred with Colonel Seely prior to a lengthy Cabinet council. Colonel Seely then proceeded to • Buckingham Palace. Mr Bonar Law .read a letter in the House, in. which. Sir Arthur Pagct was .stated to have said that active operations were about to begin against Ulsfcer ■ and he expscted tiie country w&uld ■be ablaze by Saturday. / . There was great excitement when Mr Asquith, in reply to a qaestion, said that he was unalile at present to say When the second reading of the Homo Rule Bill would be taken. He had given no instructions to the Army beyond assisting the cml power. but the officers misinterpreted it-feto a wider sense. They were now satisfied that they had made a mis£ take. The movement of troops ihaa ceased.